Some people say that trans people shouldn't have rights. Some other people, like you, stop short of that, and just say that those people should be allowed to say that. You seem to think that the second group hurts trans people less, so we should be grateful for you. You're wrong.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @WaPoMax and
Trans people are NOT special. I wish you could learn that. And you have no right not to have your feelings hurt, especially in politics. And if the lot of you weren't made of marshmallow, YOU wouldn't fear being hurt either.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
"Trans people are NOT special." Really. The courts in more than half the U.S. states still allow the "trans panic" defense for assault and murder. Trans people have higher suicide, homelessness, and unemployment rates. We're still the go-to easy punchline for every hack writer.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @WaPoMax and
None of this is improved when you fire Maya Forstater or deplatform Meghan Murphy or make space in your movement for the ghoul that is Jessica Yaniv. And don't talk about "punchlines" when "Punch A TERF" is your unofficial battle cry.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
You can't make gains in your rights by removing other people's rights. And I'm only glad that in scouring trans YouTube I've learned that there are plenty of trans people who agree.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
Every oppressed minority group has members who embrace respectability politics, who want to be "one of the good ones", and some are able to leverage that for personal profit. It doesn't work for the group as a whole.
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Replying to @autogynamelia @WaPoMax and
And every movement has it's irrational radicals. People who, say, mob a library and threaten violence against a woman who disagrees with trans women in women's spaces.
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
That is a debatable issue. You can be pro, you can be con, but by what right do you set up mock guillotines outside the library hosting the event?
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
If it were right wing mob protesting a trans speaker, you would immediately jump into action. Why don't you see the same actions as toxic when they are coming from your side?
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Replying to @IAmDeathRay @WaPoMax and
Most actions are not inherently toxic, it's the purpose behind them that makes them toxic It is completely asinine to say you're just generally for or against the concept of "protests" or "boycotts" It's the most negative form of the negative meaning of the word "liberal"
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Yes, I think negative things are bad when they happen to people on my side and good when they happen to people on the other side THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO TAKE A SIDE THAT IS THE DEFINITION OF THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF "SIDES"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @IAmDeathRay and
and like overall I would prefer if the negative things didn't happen because this fight is stupid and I just wanna live my life but
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