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A Reddit post called the picture “red fash”. I admit that it is controversial, since one may read it as mocking peaceful people who are not muscular, but on the other hand I think it is worthwhile to promote physical strength equally with mental strength and class consciousness. I bet that Specnaz, the special forces of USSR, were not formed from physically weak people. Maybe the picture is seen as a struggle between ideas of the “new left” and AES. What are your thoughts?

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    10 months ago

    ok, i guess i got it all wrong. i can swear that i heard something along the lines of “queer used to be a slur, but we should take it back” in caelan conrad’s video. i couldn’t find it in the transcript, either i just misremembered or i just can’t find it. the correct term they use is “gender and sexual minorities”. so i guess i shouldn’t have generalized the term queer.

    thanks.

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      10 months ago

      i think you misunderstood. if someone is trans, they are queer, but just because someone is queer doesn’t necessarily mean they are trans. some non-trans queer people turned reactionary once they got just enough social acceptance to be comfortable. this can also be seen in some trans people, too.

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        10 months ago

        ok then my original comment was not incorrect, because i meant to include every gender non-conforming person.

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          10 months ago

          ok, now that we have that out of the way, i think you are fundamentally misunderstanding the critique. how is being a reactionary trans person praxis?

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            10 months ago

            i had said “being queer is praxis” and i meant all lgbtq+ people by that, i didn’t mean reactionary trans person. being against the cultural, social norms is praxis, to me. it agitates.

            in some parts of the world, for example where i live, even trans people existing is too much for people.

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              10 months ago

              is a reactionary trans person not lgbtq+? there are a whole bunch of lgbt people who will fight for just enough change to make themselves comfortable and then nothing else. that doesn’t sound like praxis to me

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                10 months ago

                before i get totally confused, can you give an example of what a reactionary trans person doing just enough looks like? because it’s getting too abstract for me.

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                  10 months ago

                  Blaire White is a very visible example. She’s built a career out of making videos mocking leftists and reaffirming the bigotry of conservatives. She says the same things as Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, and the like.

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                    10 months ago

                    is this any different than “leftist” grifters? anyone can be a jerk. that doesn’t make the concept any worse. just because a trans person is bad doesn’t make being trans bad. but in majority being a trans person means that you have critically thought about yourself and came to a conclusion. this shows critical thinking. a person might blindly or critically be cis. but nobody is blindly trans.