If you are one of the (way too many) cis leftists who keeps calling trans people in sports "divisive to the working class" or saying trans people are "bourgeois decadence," WATCH THE WHOLE THING. youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0?... - ThreadSky

leftistlawyer.com • 25 days ago

If you are one of the (way too many) cis leftists who keeps calling trans people in sports "divisive to the working class" or saying trans people are "bourgeois decadence," WATCH THE WHOLE THING.

https://youtu.be/flSS1tjoxf0?si=8AvyXjewWMtIhIR1

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seasidesandwitch.bsky.social•25 days ago

What's divisive is acting like other humans deserve less because they live their life differently than you.

Jfc.

fasterfizzier.bsky.social•25 days ago

Watching from Brazil, this seems to be the only video unavailable in this country, bit odd.

vedicvalarian.bsky.social•24 days ago

God I hope he doesn't follow John Stewarts footsteps. Excellent video!

rasnowesq.bsky.social•25 days ago

So good. Thank you! I can keep moving forward now.

pridezilla.bsky.social•25 days ago

An important watch that mainstreams the reality of what’s happening. Further, those who say “trans in sports isn’t the hill to die on” need to wake the fuck up. Giving up sports is stone’s throw to the deconstruction of trans people with real lives, hopes, dreams, and potential. Stay trans, America!

rasnowesq.bsky.social•24 days ago

You're right. The attack on trans Americans is on a scale I was not prepared for. My sister. My self. The anger directed at the loveliest souls I know.

mylesofprogress.bsky.social•24 days ago

I didnt realize it was "bourgeois decadence" to make myself a social target to assault just to be comfortable in my own body, but okay.

bogyankee.bsky.social•25 days ago

Let's clear the air a bit:
Yep, there's leftist trade unionists who would throw LGBTQA people under the bus in order to obtain certain benefits. There are also LGBTQA people who would cross a picket line. There are many other examples of single issue people "on the left" who suck.

Don't suck.

awesomolocity.bsky.social•24 days ago

“It’s divisive” [people keep lying, and nobody fact checks it, because it’s inconvenient to our bigotry]

ecppdx.bsky.social•25 days ago

I don't understand how one can even call oneself a leftist and make that argument. It'd be like saying you're a leftist yet you believe the wage gap is a myth or something.

sevensugars.bsky.social•25 days ago

Because they may have leftist beliefs, including trans rights, but they don’t have integrity and will yield on this to achieve what they think are “more important” issues.

redshiftsinger.bsky.social•25 days ago

And along with that, they’re foolish enough to believe that throwing trans people under the fascism bus will do anything but fuel it.

ecppdx.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yeah, it's preposterous. When has throwing any group under the bus worked? Ever?

ecppdx.bsky.social•25 days ago

I'm not saying we should do it even if it worked. We shouldn't. But also, *it doesn't work, anyway*, so their arguments are nonsensical.

redshiftsinger.bsky.social•24 days ago

RIGHT it is both morally wrong AND ineffective at achieving any goal that isn’t “more fascism”!

eternaltrophyboy.bsky.social•24 days ago

That episode made me stop anxiety shaking for about 20 minutes.

hibernaculum.bsky.social•25 days ago

Brilliant, as the show so often is. Knowing who you are and forming a strong sense of self is bulletproof armour against fascists, and the very existence trans people overturn their precious orthodoxies. They're scared of everything but have nobody to comfort them. Because they're cunts.

leftistlawyer.com•25 days ago

(And yes, I get complaints by email and messages from self described leftists and progressives about transness being somehow a barrier to progress EVERY DAY.)

tupped.bsky.social•25 days ago

People should learn not to do whatever it is that has just popped into their head.

hibernaculum.bsky.social•25 days ago

Especially if what's popped into their heads is oppression in the name of solidarity.

glitchsister.com•25 days ago

pretty sure that's an omission that they're never taken seriously enough to begin with, if they have to narrow their cause over and over again, then it's probably just shit found in a dumpster that needs to be returned for recycling

redandelion.bsky.social•25 days ago

people sure can suck sometimes

yana42.bsky.social•25 days ago

That is the shittiest take ever. Or maybe tied with the one about opposing genocide being divisive. Both such shitty takes.

gingercaddy.bsky.social•24 days ago

I watched this last night and had a question: do you feel like John should’ve been more forceful in shutting down “concern” about sports at “the top elite level”?

Felt like he kind of left things open there and was curious about your thoughts.

comrade-barbie.bsky.social•25 days ago

Anyone who calls themselves a "leftist," but isn't intersectional, doesn't know what being a leftist is, and is in fact, a reactionary douchebag.

gregory-c-leavitt.bsky.social•24 days ago

Nobody gets thrown under the bus. Nobody ever.

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