cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68111168
When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way. My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear but in a commitment to reason and fairness. My loyalty was to the truth, not to political tribes. Maintaining my integrity cost me greatly, but I believed it was worth it.
the excesses of Critical Race Theory
Lol. Fuck off.
My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear but in a commitment to reason and fairness. My loyalty was to the truth, not to political tribes.
Keep telling yourself that.
Uhh… duhh
The leopards are equal opportunity face munchers.
Their hate for black and trans people was so great they teamed up with the people who want to kill them.
“Jews like me joined forces with the Nazis and now we’re dead” ahh situation
Well yeah they hate gays and women so of course they’re gonna REALLY hate gay women.
Joined forces is a weird way of saying “used useful idiots.”
Dumbshits.
She’s a fucking idiot. And definitely unqualified to talk on half of the shit her profile says she does.
God I remember this dipshit. Racist transphobic piece of shit. I guarantee if they strike down Obergefell, she’ll jump back onboard to repeal Loving.
Who would have thought the people affiliated with the party that wants to turn the country into a white, straight, Christian theocratic ethnostate would turn against lesbians? I am shocked.
I really want to know where are these DEI mandates, have anyone ever heard about these “DEI” hiring mandates?
I’ve had this discussion with my conservative brother
Me: my company has diversity programs to reach a wider pool of applicants and to help people with historical disadvantages fulfill their potential. The best manager I ever had, had a little help overcoming language and confidence barriers, and i was happy to follow her to multiple companies
Him: they keep bringing in these managers solely by their gender or skin color and never promote engineers. They made us take this one employee who is completely unqualified and we have to do her work
He buys that there’s a harmful dei mandate that prevent qualified people from succeeding. You can imagine there’s some resentment there. However it’s easier to explain as normal large company bs, and only knowing part of the story
Your bro clearly doesn’t realize that he got his job through reverse DEI which is the default.
He will never realize this while immersed in the hegemonic narrative.
Yeah, it got a dead senator’s sister appointed to replace him with absolutely no experience.
I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons.
“I stupidly, and wholeheartedly bought into Conservative media talking points. While I still hold these nonsensical positions, I don’t like that the bigots I aligned myself with me were honest in their hatred of me and those like me. You should feel sorry for me.”
FTFY. Also, fuck off.
This has been the most maddening thing about it; it’s just whole-hearted willful ignorance. NO ONE is doing gender conversions on kids. I guess if you want to make the argument that hormones are thrown around as teenagers, sure, but teenagers get on birth control, there are plenty of legitimate hormone therapies done already.
I’ve had decent progress with some more conservative, non-religious family members on the “indoctrination” shit by likening it to religion. No rules on what wild shit religion can do; promising you to an older man, severing social ties, and putting you in a situation where you don’t know you’re being abused. No crackdowns, no vehement marches, no violence over that. But an adult family and their near-adult child can’t make medical decisions with oversight from a medical professional? It’s absolute, willful ignorance at best.
