Julie Burchill's infamous "sex workers should be shot as traitors to womankind" line is hardly out of place in a Stalin-esque pantheon.
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Or, in the same vein, the Swedish feminist MP who said sex workers were acceptable casualties on the way to gender equity.
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*That* mentality is what I was criticising. And such nonsense is coddled by mainline liberals and conservatives due to prejudice.
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The dearly held TERF fiction that trans people (and even gender itself) will not exist in a feminist utopia is myopic far left extremism.
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By pretending that this nonsense doesn't have its origins in a leftward bound runaway train, however, is blindness.
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TERF rhetoric gets under our skin *because* it uses the language of feminism and liberation politics to justify itself, after all.
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And "you can't exist in my utopia" is a subtext to both left and right wing extremisms, often both targeting minoritised people.
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The wilful ignorance of this by "anti-toxicity" writers like Michelle Goldberg, who condemn Black Twitter but wants us to "understand" TERFs
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speaks to other cancers endemic to mainline liberalism and centrism, which require different critiques to take on.
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Also, some suggested that fealty to "true" Marxist or socialist or other Leftist ideology would prohibit such things. Well, no.
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@Quinnae_Moon also Christianity has never led to atrocities, only distortions of Christianity have
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@Quinnae_Moon@arthur_affect There's a reason when people talk of T 3 R F's as "Not real feminists" as a handwave I get mad2 replies 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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