One reason US TERFs aren't as successful is they really are TERFs first and foremost rather than being TERFs as an expression of loyalty to a general elitist centrist political clique that already existed There's no "TERF darling" politician here like Jess Phillips was
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(I still think about what a shamelessly revealing moment this was for the UK pundit class)https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1216552485575249920?s=19 …
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Arthur ChuVerified account @arthur_affectReplying to @GoatSarahYeah and clearly Jess Phillips' actual constituency is this media clique and she's their chosen candidate I saw one of them tweet "She's the MP who reminds you of yourself" and they were all agreeing with it, not realizing how it makes them look1 reply 1 retweet 40 likesShow this thread -
I remember the TERFs trying to unite behind one of the Democrats in the primary and failing - one of the big TERFy academics on here is a huge Sanders fan but was unable to get the community on board with "America's Corbyn"
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A lot of them decided they were Yang Gangers, which is hilarious, and just adds to the evidence for a TERF/alt-right convergence As does the ones who went for Tulsi And the shockingly high number who decided they didn't gaf anymore and supported Trump
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This is something we've at least been saved from so far, in part because of how LGBTQ issues and abortion are so tied up with each other here and the way these issues happened to polarize between the parties. It's left them no CLEAR opening so far like they had in the U.K.
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The evangelical Christian operative who wrote this document is SO smug about having figured out you can turn TERFs into straight up pro-lifers by just using "sex-selective abortion" as your wedge
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It's interesting to compare, because they have tried to use "selective" abortion arguments (not just about gender either) in the U.S. since at least the time I was still watching new Transformers and G.I. Joe episodes as they aired! But it always falls flat here.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect
i mean i want to say that's because it's just so obviously a wedge issue, like as soon as we start saying "okay only abortions done for The Right Reasons are legal" then we are on a fast train to doom town but then that makes me wonder how the hell it worked in the uk
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Because for whatever reason "feminist" orgs in the UK have been fully institutionally captured by a clique that just has no principles The people who will always be able to get an abortion if *they* need one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis
i wonder also if it's because the anti-abortion movement in the uk isn't nearly where it is in the us literally anyone to the left of joe manchin can tell which way the wind is blowing when people start talking about abortion restrictions, we've been fighting it so long
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Yeah the people licking Nicholson's boots as a feminist shero who treated her bill to halve the legal period for abortions in the UK as no big deal Just a little bureaucratic thing, it didn't pass anyway, you could still get abortions in the first trimester, what's the issue
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