Yeah we've all talked about how No True Scotsman defenses aren't helpful with Christianity ("No one involved with the Spanish Inquisition was a REAL Christian") and I don't think it's useful for movements on the left to do it either ("Nor REAL feminists", "Not REAL socialists")https://twitter.com/9BillionTigers/status/1251625258253078528 …
Just like, say, the founder of the Taiping Rebellion suddenly decided he was a Christian despite having no prior contact with any Christian organization and his beliefs wildly contradicting many traditional Christian tenets
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By contrast, "feminist" and "socialist" really are supposed to be about a broadly defined intention behind your beliefs - it's *supposed* to be possible to just wake up one day and be a feminist without being converted by an existing feminist
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Of course it's easier to say someone is actually no true Scotsman. It's just simultaneously untenable to contend it with reference to, like, a distaste for Scottish food. It's really hard to figure out what's on the outside of feminism. But, like, something must be.
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Is it specifically transphobia? I dunno. The historical structure of feminism would indicate otherwise to some extent, but I'm not entirely uncomfortable kicking some transphobes out of the modern understanding.
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