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.
What did you expect? You can’t sit with us anymore. You chose your hateful side, so enjoy it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nobody 🧵 has mentioned this was last year’s news‽
I didn’t see the date, apologies.
No date rule that I can see, only reposts.
but it’s been reposted twice already, this is the third time!
TERF got turfed.
When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020,
Eyeroll. Can already tell this person is an idiot.
Is it woke to not be a bigot?
Zero critical thinking skill.
All those points she mentions are fake outrage by “conservatives”. They’re made to make you think, “yeah, I can see their point,” but anyone with a working brain can see that deeper down, there’s so much hatred toward anyone that these “conservatives” consider to be inferior. So even if the author agrees with those points, she’s trash to them because she is a woman.
…Oh and being a woman who likes women doesn’t help either.
“My stance wasn’t rooted in hate or fear…”
Bullshit. Fuck you
fuck you bitch
Which I certainly won’t be doing and you shouldn’t either.
She would try though because I’m transfem and pass better than her lol
… Downvoting this shitty comment is what oppression looks like to you…?
Don’t put words in my mouth, dipshit
God forbid you consider the real reason you’re being downvoted. But you won’t get anymore downvotes from me since I won’t be seeing any more of your shitty comments or posts.
I’m being downvoted because I said I’m attractive. Does that sound reasonable to you?
Fuck off
Nah you are being downvoted for building yourself up by tearing her down. You called her mannish.
Hey. Let’s not be assholes about who passes as what. Everybody has bad days, seeing her scales under the human skin suit isn’t a reason to be a bigot and turn off her heat rock.
Dear Lemmy, why always so bro? Don’t upvote this trash. Misogyny is not the solution. This comment section is gross AF.
Can we just have all gendered bathrooms and co-ed sports already? Like Jesus fuck they’re killing people in the street
People only ever propose co-ed sports when trans people are brought up. It’s a thought-terminating cliche and a reliable indicator that the speaker hasn’t seriously considered why sports are gendered in the first place.
Real ally: Trans women are women. They belong in women’s sports because there is zero scientific evidence of trans women having any advantage over cis female athletes. Fears that they have an advantage are just bigoted gut-level stereotypes assuming that trans women are biological men.
Performative ally: Let’s move to co-ed sports!
Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers you fucking TERF.
They’re not turning on you, they were always against you, you were just too dumb to see it
TERFs aint that bright
The fact that she’s allowed to vote, choose who she married or not, and is allowed to date women is the woke wave she must hate
I dunno - progressive where it benefits her and fuck everyone else is a pretty typical conservative stance.
The common theme about the “issues” listed in the screenshot is that none of them are real, they are all made up by the right wing culture wars, and the only reason that anyone is even aware of them is that Tucker Carson and Alex Jones and their friends spent 10 years faking outrage over them.
If someone bases their vote on culture wars issues, instead of considering what each candidate stands for on real world problems, fuck them. No excuses.This is it exactly. Everything she opposes is essentially a straw-man created by the right. But she uses those straw-men to justify her opinions as being “common sense’.
Perfect example:
It was the most extreme activist voices — those who called lesbians transphobic for only wanting to sleep with women and who prioritized trans women’s feelings over the safety of cisgender women — that I opposed.
