For some reason, whenever someone gets weirdly aggressively provincial at me, like actually angry that I'm an American and saying that means I don't understand British stuff, they are a TERF One click to their timeline and there's always a transphobic tweet right up top
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and
Such a strange, strange correlation It literally never fails It goes the other way too, like when I was trapped in a TERF hellthread and this lady first accuses me of "paedophilia" out of nowhere then snarks at me Americans can't spell that word
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HickeyWriter and
That is so bizarre. “You murder puppies and you wear white socks!”
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Replying to @PyesMusings @HickeyWriter and
Transphobia has at this point fully become a toxic British identity thing, like it's a specific feature of their right wing in particular they take pride in It's like Americans and gun rights
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Replying to @AlliaPotestas @PyesMusings and
It's not a stretch at all, a bunch of people suddenly shifting rightward after some kind of culture shock and beating on a minority in the process is extremely familiar, it's happened in my country in my lifetime multiple times
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlliaPotestas and
It could also be a clue that you might be wrong about the stance being a right wing one. At the very least it's a more parsimonious explanation than an entire generation of feminists suddenly becoming right wingers.
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Replying to @latsot @AlliaPotestas and
No, it isn't, that's a garbage argument "I'm a lifelong Democratic voter, that means that by definition my beliefs are left-liberal, including any new beliefs I suddenly start to become passionate about" Absolute affirming the consequent, do you even logic bro
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AlliaPotestas and
One of us logics, I'm not so sure it's the one throwing around the strawmen.
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Replying to @latsot @AlliaPotestas and
That's literally what you just said, that your beliefs by definition are "left-leaning" because you have other beliefs that are "left-leaning"
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And even if we accept that utterly garbage premise, that political positions have any inherent meaning in and of themselves and are purely social groupings -- identity politics! -- it's false as fuck New Labour Blairites aren't "the Left"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @latsot and
And TERFs aren't, in point of fact, a movement of women, except by pure tautological fiat ("feminists and their allies, as men cannot be feminists") Polls consistently show and always have shown that TERF opinions are more commonly held by men than women, by a lot
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