I'd say these people live in a fantasy world where a trans person is ever going to go "You may think I'm an abomination who must be driven out of public life and are actively trying to make that happen, but what do we have in common?" but they don't think of trans people as actual people. - ThreadSky

damselindystopia.bsky.social • 19 days ago

I'd say these people live in a fantasy world where a trans person is ever going to go "You may think I'm an abomination who must be driven out of public life and are actively trying to make that happen, but what do we have in common?" but they don't think of trans people as actual people.

Reposted from Ed Hodgson

So while you might not want to campaign alongside a Reform voter on refugee policy you might find you agree with them on pushing for greater regulation of social media. You may disagree with an evangelical Christian on trans rights, but share the same views on foreign aid.

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woke-extremist.bsky.social•19 days ago

In addition like... where are these reform voters and transphobes who are desperately lining up to work with the left but are being gatekept? You get these arguments about hypothetical anti-racist tories or whatever, but they're not... real? They don't exist in any significant numbers.

flippac.bsky.social•18 days ago

They're people looking to pull members of the left into a red/brown fash recruitment pipeline

dr-frogbat.bsky.social•19 days ago

You can disagreed with an evangelical about whether Christians are a treasonous pox on the empire and deserve to be eaten by lions in the colosseum, but you might have something in common about taxation of stock dividends.

anarchygoose.bsky.social•19 days ago

god i wish i was a hypothetical

damselindystopia.bsky.social•19 days ago

Politics is a matter of policy stances in the abstract to these think tank bellends and never a matter of real, live struggles in which the lives and human rights of actual people are at stake.

damselindystopia.bsky.social•19 days ago

It never occurs to guys like Ed that to some people "refugee policy" is a matter of literal life and death and not something they can just agree to disagree about. Politics is all just a game the privileged play for status.

damselindystopia.bsky.social•19 days ago

Like fucking no, I'm not going to work alongside the pro-vulnerable people being sent back to states that want to murder them in chains party on "greater regulation of social media", Ed. Are you fucking stupid or just pretending?

lordjuiblex.bsky.social•19 days ago

My vote is stupid. Wealthy white cis hetero men are rarely inconvenienced by whoever wins political power. Hence to them, politics is just chess, not a live or die matter. 😕

foxdie.bsky.social•19 days ago

You should simply agree to work with people who do not respect your existence as a human and want to drive you out of public life 🥰🥰🥰

spoopyspoonie.bsky.social•19 days ago

I wish this wasn't a regular row in my inbox

theotheories.bsky.social•19 days ago

I'm sure non-white comrades will be super happy I've invited UKIP Steve to the meeting because we agree on social media regulation. This will all be fine and definitely won't end up with people leaving because he was racist to them

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