Good.

If your “leftism” is being destroyed by the fact that trans people and tankies exist then it needs to die.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    how is it this common that a person’s ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not? It’s like the central dividing line in who people are. Every single time someone talks about tankies, or the left going too far, or blah blah, they’re coming from a position of transphobia. It consumed them. My brain is gonna explode.

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      how is it this common that a person’s ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not?

      Transphobia is on the borderline of being a socially permissive form of bigotry, which makes it a litmus test ideal for revealing the people who aren’t open about being fascists, but still share the complete emotional and moral desolation and the political sadism of the mask-off fascists. Checking if somebody is a transphobe flushes out the ones who are too chickenshit to be, say, outright racists. Although Wu’s comments about BLM in the linked tweets make me assume she’s also an anti-black racist who merely had the instinct not to be open about her views in 2020.

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      Diehard Democrats need a scapegoat because without one they are left with the painfully uncomfortable realisation that the DNC exists in a parasitical relationship with the GOP and that, in a shocking number of situations, their party would prefer a Republican victory because it provides the Democrats with huge opportunities for shifting further to the right, for preferencing the interests of capital instead of needing to make small concessions to the working class, and of course for fundraising.

      So naturally it’s the tankies and the trans people and the Russian bots who are ruining the so-called left. They need this to be true in order to diffuse the cognitive dissonance they experience by being a Democrat supporter.