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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.

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[–] ClownStatue@piefed.social 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[–] GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 points 33 minutes ago

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.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago
[–] spectrums_coherence@piefed.social 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I really want to know where are these DEI mandates, have anyone ever heard about these "DEI" hiring mandates?

[–] CMLVI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, it got a dead senator's sister appointed to replace him with absolutely no experience.

No, lesbians did not join forces with conservatives. You keep telling yourself that, because otherwise you have to admit you are an absolute monster of a human being.

Being a lesbian does not excuse you from being evil.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody 🧵 has mentioned this was last year’s news‽

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't see the date, apologies.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

No date rule that I can see, only reposts.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 1 points 1 hour ago

but it's been reposted twice already, this is the tird time!

[–] Malyca@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 hours ago

Fuck these people I hope their lives are miserable from now until the end. I hope the lgbtq community doesn't accept them after all the aid they've given to the enemy.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 27 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

so you sold out your sisters for the hope you wouldn't be targeted and now you're being targeted.

something something, and they came for me and there was nobody left to help.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 44 points 9 hours ago

Summary:

"I am stupid. In fact, i am so stupid that when bad staff happens as a result of my decisions I perceive it as a betrayal on the part of others and the universe instead of the predictable result of my actions. That way I can ensure that I never stop being stupid."

[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 137 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (2 children)

"My stance wasn't rooted in hate or fear..."

Bullshit. Fuck you

If you read her drivel its clear she's still a hateful cunt she just wants sympathy from the people she turned her back on.

I say again...

FUCK YOU BITCH

[–] Makhno@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Can we just have all gendered bathrooms and co-ed sports already? Like Jesus fuck they're killing people in the street

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

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!

[–] cavitationfetishist2@quokk.au 30 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

fuck you bitch

Which I certainly won't be doing and you shouldn't either.

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[–] ConstableJelly@piefed.social 41 points 9 hours ago

Conservatives can either stand for freedom, or they can stand for oppression — but they cannot do both. If they truly value individual liberty, they should defend our right to marry. If they turn on us now, they reveal who they really are.

Trump won in 2024 in part due to the left’s overreach. If the right continues down this path, they could meet a similar fate in future elections. As more people come out as LGBT, and as more LGBT people voice concerns with far-left activist orthodoxies, Republicans should be broadening the tent, not excluding these people and pushing them away. Hemorrhaging potential voters to get your druthers isn’t a winning political strategy. The pendulum from hell will just keep swinging back and forth until we all decide we’ve had enough.

"I stood with the Leopard's Eating People's Faces Party, but now that they're trying to eat my face, I call on the Leopard's to do better, and eat only the faces that reason and fairness dictate should be eaten."

That's not the lesson, Reid, you learned it wrong again!

[–] doomchapel666@lemmy.zip 49 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

"Ultimately, I don’t regret my decision. I worked toward what I believed — and still believe — to be true. I still oppose radical gender ideology and Critical Race Theory in schools. I still believe that biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports or be housed in women’s prisons. But I will not stand by while LGBT rights are legislated away."

oh brother

[–] die444die@sh.itjust.works 31 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

So racist and transphobic. Typical conservative.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 hours ago

and self inflicting! ~

[–] immutable@lemmy.zip 24 points 9 hours ago

Yoy see critical race theory would help explain the struggles of others, so obviously that’s bad. Now the authors personal struggles, those need to be addressed.

Perfect logical sense

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 13 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Does she know what the T in LGBT stands for?

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 hours ago

Too many in the L and G portions seem to think conservatives actually care about them, and as such are very vocal about "without the T", and in my experience completely dismiss the Bs as "haven't figured out which one they want and therefore B doesn't exist"

So in other words "it's not me so I don't care"

[–] Zirconium@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago

"I may lose my right to marry my fiance but its a chance Im willing to take"

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 111 points 12 hours ago
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 89 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

They're not turning on you, they were always against you, you were just too dumb to see it

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 16 points 10 hours ago

I dunno - progressive where it benefits her and fuck everyone else is a pretty typical conservative stance.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 55 points 11 hours ago

Yet, the implications are deeply troubling. We could return to a system where some states honor same-sex marriages, while others don’t — a legal patchwork that could severely constrain LGBT rights and upend the decades of work leading up to Obergefell. As a 29-year-old lesbian engaged to be married, this turn of events is personal for me. And it may be one I helped contribute to.

"It wasn't important until it affected me!"

The author of this article is Reid Newton. She is a gullible idiot and apparently needs to earn her rights to know their value. She has no reverence for value or the struggle and work of those before her to accomplish recognition.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 67 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020,

Eyeroll. Can already tell this person is an idiot.

[–] Madrigal@lemmy.world 30 points 11 hours ago

Zero critical thinking skill.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 46 points 11 hours ago

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.

[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 42 points 12 hours ago

Two in the thoughts, one in the prayers you fucking TERF.

[–] DougPiranha42@lemmy.world 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Taco2112@lemmy.world 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 7 points 8 hours ago

"I bought into a bunch of bullshit propaganda because I'm very stupid. Now people should feel bad for me."

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe 37 points 12 hours ago

TERF got turfed.

[–] realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Well, as my girlfriend always says - nobody hates women more than other women.

[–] Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 4 points 11 hours ago

See? Sexuality and gender don''t really matter, they can be exactly as stupid as any other flavor of gender or sexual preference!

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Lesbians like you are idiots.

[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Ooooh noooooo. Thoughts and prayers.

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