I mean, it's also plausible that Freer just honestly doesn't know of anyone else in the ENTIRE WORLD who's queer married to a straight person who he could compare me to, but even so, the inference isn't exactly, uh. Subtle.
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To be clear: being friends with or supporting someone doesn't, ipso facto, imply that you fully condone, know of & agree with everything they've ever said or done. But clear political statements, in a context where you're explicitly being asked to respond to them, is different.
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As, for that matter, is affiliation with a group or movement with an expressly political stance. Again, nobody expects every individual member to be 100% behind everything such a group does or says, but continuing membership/affiliation is, itself, a statement of general support.
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This is something individual Puppies seem to struggle with: the idea that the political aspect of their movement, whether Sad or Rabid, is chock-full of things like the Freer thread that comprehensively demonstrate the racism, sexism, homophobia etc within their groups.
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So when they see other people saying, in generic shorthand, "The Puppiest are racist," they take immediate offence and think it's all a propaganda-style exaggeration, because THEY'RE not like that, which means THEY'RE being maligned!
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But I mean. In any other context, it should be pretty easy to accept that if (for instance) you enthusiastically vote for a politician who then proceeds to do and say really shitty things, people who are aware of your vote might, not unreasonably, be critical of your decision.
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Or, well. That SHOULD be easy to accept, but given the current political state of America and the Republican party, that's probably a bad example. *sighs heavily*
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The point being, if you belong to a group whose express argument is that left-wing, pro-diversity goons are involved in a Sekrit Conspiracy to take over SFF, which is Wrong, but whose group members also routinely demonstrate the same biases they're claiming don't exist... yeah.
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ANYWAY. This thread has gotten away from me a bit, but the point is that I continue to be baffled by the total, barefaced willingness of various Puppies to believe total lies about me and my family just because another Puppy said them. FIN.
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