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seems like a ragebait propaganda piece used to divide us further, its those evil queers who caused Donald Trump to win the election.
Many on the cultural right are forgetting something critical: same-sex marriage doesn’t infringe upon anyone else’s rights. A crucial argument against gender ideology was the infringement on women’s rights. But unlike trans edge cases such as women’s sports or prisons, marriage isn’t a zero-sum issue. There isn’t a finite number of spots on the “marriage team.” My getting married takes nothing away from straight couples.
It's too bad they're both too incurious to think for themselves and so media-illiterate that they haven't read The Handmaid's Tale... Obviously lesbian couples can be broken up and forced into miserable straight marriages and this is precisely what the right would want to do! (It's even part of the American past that MAGA wants to return to!)
Sucks to suck
It was an interesting read.
By the way, the paragraph you quoted is oddly cut. The whole paragraph reads:
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.
Later on she says:
The conservative movement has a choice to make: will they stay true to their promises of liberty and limited government, or will they use the levers of power to impose their preferred moral order? I joined forces with them because I believed in the former. I fear they are choosing the latter.
which highlights are key internal division in republicans: small government (i.e. being consistently liberal) or imposing one's own moral order?
The article seems to imply that some people vote republican because they think it's a vote for liberalism, ironically.
That's the raw problem: they don't question what “small government” means, all the while she praxied big government praxis:
- I opposed childhood gender transitions, 2) unlawful and 3) divisive DEI mandates, and the 4) excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued 5) against biological males competing in women’s sports and being 6) housed in women’s prisons. 7) I did so loudly and 8) publicly
She‘s incapable of retrospecting she is in favor of big government over-reaches because she wants those rulings against others, not herself. “Law for thee, not me”
Republicans: We think Queers should DIE!
Reid Newton: Wow these people SPEAK my Language!
She sounds like a terrible person, friend, and relative. Maybe it's for the best people left her side. Now the leopards can feast in peace. Never comfort a fascist, racist, transpose, or bigot.
Andrea Dworkin is spinning in her grave. There's something extra tragic about adopting the token persona for someone at the intersectionality of two identities that the right hates.
the problem with tokens is that sooner or later they get spent.
Caitlyn Jenner on line 2, chief.
If you manage to travel back in time, don't invest in bitcoin, invest in fell for it again awards.
Absolute textbook LAMF. Always entertaining to see one in the wild.
Just because a few points match, the majority of political points were against non-white, non-straight, non-cis people from the word go. Voting for the Rep-Nazis if you belong or even just know people in this groups makes absolutely no sense.
Protip: this type of Sturmabteilung has a major moderating influence in threadiverse.
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