Thinking out loud, when has a movement made up predominantly of middle aged women, most of whom are mothers, ever been on the “wrong side” of child protection and safeguarding? Ever?
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Replying to @RoyceWilsonAU @injiduducu
They weren't against child protection. People present these women as buzzkill religious types, forgetting many were victims of (alcohol driven) DV. Many were explicitly saving kids from that.
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Replying to @katrinagulliver @injiduducu
Except it backfired spectacularly and caused the foundation for organised crime on a scale no-one had ever seen before, which still has implications even today. And those drunken wife-beaters still got booze, they just got it from criminals.
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Replying to @RoyceWilsonAU @injiduducu
It wasn't a good outcome. But that's not the same as saying they didn't care about kids (and overall alcohol consumption did go down despite bootleggers).
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The issue is not whether they were *insincere* in their motivations I absolutely believe that TERFs believe what they say when they say they're fighting to save their children The issue is that they were WRONG and their solution was IMMENSELY HARMFUL
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Surely that's the important thing when asking if someone was on the "wrong side of history", as opposed to asking some abstract question of whether they're "good people" who are going to Heaven (who gives a shit)
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