No one who has any passing familiarity with how this works would entertain the ridiculous argument that plaintiffs in test cases are some kind of randomly selected demographic sample of people in their movement As though court cases just happen organically
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Replying to @arthur_affect @newatch and
So neither Rosa Parks nor Allison Bailey are capable of asserting their own agency in political engagements that concern them? Do you know how
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Replying to @Demeters_grief @newatch and
Of course I'm not saying they don't have agency, they obviously do believe in their cause, enough to really commit the actions they ended up going to court over and risk the legal consequences That doesn't make the case not an engineered test case
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Demeters_grief and
It's like when people ask me if I think all Black Trump voters are puppets or being bribed and crassly in it just for the money No, I don't think so I think there's plenty of crass exploitation to go around but I feel no need to lean on that as a primary explanation
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Demeters_grief and
It's a big world, people are diverse, everyone has the agency to make their own decisions and form their own beliefs, some number of them will always use that agency to be massive shitheads, that's how the world works
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Demeters_grief and
I don't lose a lot of sleep over people on Twitter going "I'm an immigrant and I support Trump", "I'm trans and I support JK Rowling", "I'm Asian and I like Netflix's Iron Fist" Whatever, they have a minority opinion that is bad, whoop de doo
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Replying to @newatch @Demeters_grief and
They are right wing bigots, and I actually save a lot of time by not particularly caring about the specifics of how they justify being right wing bigots
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Replying to @newatch @Demeters_grief and
Yes, they are right wing bigots, and I can tell because they are involved in court cases for the purpose of advancing an agenda of right wing bigotry
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You know it's actually not that difficult to primarily judge people by their actions and not go into a deep dive on the "nitty gritty detail" of their personal lives before giving yourself permission to judge that their actions are harmful
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