"Trans activists" don't have anywhere near the power you imply they do in this tweet.
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Replying to @sophienotemily @unwitod and
I'd like to point out that once again we are very closely recapitulating history and the 90s was filled with right-wing predictions we'd see "waves" of people "fleeing the gay lifestyle" after being "recruited into it" and suing all the counselors who "enabled the AIDS epidemic"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
It's amazing and in its own way a curse how short people's memories are People act like it took so long to pass same sex marriage because we just got busy and never got around to it, not that it was a mainstream and accepted opinion that "homosexuality is a public health crisis"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
This endless repetition of the 'history repeating itself' talking point is so stupid Can't you concieve of anything new happening, or any new ideas being fought over? Everything is cast as the same manichean argument, and you utterly fail to see what the debate is really about
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Replying to @unwitod @sophienotemily and
Yes, I can, which is why I support trans people and am trying to learn what I can as a cis person from them You guys are the ones who insist on repeating history
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Replying to @arthur_affect @sophienotemily and
So you're just going to stick to the talking point then. OK. If you think life-long LBGT activists and left-wing feminists and trade-unionists have somehow all suddenly become bigots, and are rehearsing right-wing anti-gay propaganda, then you're stuck in a paranoid bubble
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Replying to @unwitod @sophienotemily and
Right, but the Heritage Foundation and the alt-right suddenly switching to being "allies of vulnerable women" makes perfect sense to you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
I'll just note that this, also, is rewriting history in the exact same way The center-left Guardian readers who make up the core TERF demographic were never leaders in anything and absolutely were same-sex marriage "skeptics" back when that was the fight
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
People like Helen Lewis or Caroline Criado Perez pivoting to pushing a TERF message isn't some huge surprise nor something that started with trans people either It happened right after a bunch of public criticism for being focused on middle class white feminism
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
It's kind of embarrassingly obvious, the SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen hashtag goes viral, Lewis gets put on a panel on BBC Newsnight and unhappily admits that a lot of Black feminists are pissed at her, then the New Statesman starts ranting about how feminism is under siege
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CCP gets famous for demanding a famous white woman's face be put on UK currency, runs into backlash over this being a narrow and out-of-touch concern, starts a crusade about how the prime oppression in society is penises vs vaginas and everyone is trying to distract us from it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Why should a woman not be on the currency? Your misogyny is really showing today.
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