If you actually take a peek in the thread, you'll notice how much one of the TERFs is playing up their sheer disgust and reopened trauma at the thought of having to be around a trans woman Knowing that if she communicates enough cis white girl pain then she wins the argument
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Because ppl will have to "respect" her trauma that conveniently enables her to discriminate against ppl more marginalized than she is Honestly—sexual assault survivors deserve exponentially more respect than veterans but the mechanism being invoked here is similar in both cases
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"You can't criticize this transphobe because she's a sexual assault survivor!" is fundamentally the same tactic of fallacious concern-trolling as "You can't criticize John McCain because he's a war hero!", and white bigots will jump to use either if it's convenient for them
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(If you needed more evidence, note that Republicans and the alt-right are equally IMMUNE to both tactics—slinging mud at veterans OR abuse survivors doesn't so much as tweak their sensibilities unless performing outrage advances their agenda)
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Meanwhile, MOST intersectional sexual assault survivors who have had the misfortune of developing a "problematic" trigger—a trigger that results in them behaving in ways that parallel bigotry—UNDERSTAND THAT THEY NEED TO JUST FREAKING WORK ON THAT BECAUSE HUMORING IT IS UNTENABLE
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Like do these assflags really think that if a Mexican person causes them trauma, then it gives them a blank check to be unsanctionedly racist against Mexicans for the rest of their lives Maybe? Probably? But you certainly won't see them openly advocating for it in these threads
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Meanwhile, even in FUCKING INDIANA, courts have held that certain bigotry-based accommodations don't have to be respected. The idea that they all do has, even recently, at best STRADDLED one end of the Overton window. It's not a popular hill to die onhttps://newsone.com/689695/indiana-nurses-civil-rights-violated-prefers-no-black-cnas/ …
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But, of course, TERFs try to get over this obstacle by eliding any kind of societal difference between trans women and cis men, which requires them to literally adopt a view of trans identity in society more disingenuous than nuns' and Hobby Lobby's views of Plan B
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With absolute phony religiosity, they blurt out that trans women are not in any sense marginalized, and certainly they are not less marginalized than cis women. Everybody knows this isn't true. Even TERFs know this isn't true. But they want to force everybody to engage with it
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Because if ppl humor that TERFs actually think this, their calls to, effectively, be de facto _in charge_ of the fates of any trans woman in their vicinity ISN'T an accommodation merely made on behalf of their bigotry, but simply a demand to enjoy the "privileges" trans women do
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It is a manipulation. Do not allow people to entertain the idea that the marginalization of trans women is anything other than an axiom of the world we live in, and do not allow somebody to exploit their overwrought white girl pain to justify literal destructive acts of bigotry.
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