I did not say that, I did not say I thought there was any difference in the number of trans people between countries (because I don't think trans people are some recently invented cultural phenomenon) I don't even think *transphobia*, itself, is that different between countries
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Replying to @arthur_affect @markmair and
At least not general, passive cis discomfort with trans people and trans issues, which is all too universal I think virulent, active, *ideological* transphobia -- TERFism -- is very clearly a distinctive British cultural product
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Athers1977 and
Still believing in science is a distinctive British cultural product along with whats left of critical thinking.
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Replying to @markmair @Athers1977 and
I'm glad that it always comes back to a ridiculous "Brits are just smarter than every other country in the world" argument And I'm the xenophobe Oh congrats on Brexit btw, that was a very scientifically sound decision
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Athers1977 and
It's not that Britain is smarter than every other country in the world, it's that America is thicker. You're spot on about Brexit, an monumental act of self harm voted for by motivated morons that believed the hype. My country voted 62% remain and will soon be leaving the UK.
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Replying to @markmair @arthur_affect and
So what about other countries? Plenty that aren't the US and not as regressive as the UK
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Replying to @AveryOfBirds @markmair and
Yeah, the GRA reforms they're so scared of *already happened in Ireland five years ago* and there's been no massive wave of rapists invading bathrooms across the land
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AveryOfBirds and
There hasn't been a SINGLE bathroom-related incident since GRA reform in Ireland AT ALL But in these conversations they always talk like the UK and the US are the only two countries that exist Talk about provinciality
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AveryOfBirds and
Anyway I'm kind of amazed, just speaking generally here, at people in denial that there has been a hard rightward political turn in the UK Look the fuck around you
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AveryOfBirds and
And they genuinely believe they're not part of it, they don't count, Brexit is other people's fault, BoJo is other people's fault
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I said I heard "I didn't leave the Democrats, the Democrats left me" a lot in the US after 9/11 It's not even CLOSE to how often these people say it ALL the shitty Guardian columnist types say it They've ALL defected
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AveryOfBirds and
It's this spectrum between full-on Tory conversion and "very reluctant Labour voter" people who are fuming with Corbyn Derangement Syndrome and demanding that Starmer, apparently, do as little as possible in order to signal "sanity has returned to the party" Fuck's sake
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