• vegeta1 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    31 minutes ago

    I’m gonna beat this dead horse until its a sludge. The channel having the name Young Turks is a major red flag. And an Armenian being one of the faces of a channel named the Young Turks… I mean…

  • LaBellaLotta [any]@hexbear.net
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    31 minutes ago

    Top comment is a LOTR quotes and now I seem to have strained my wrist from the force and intensity of the “jerking off” motion I performed upon reading that so pretty fucking mad at myself rn but also fuck you James and Fuck you Ana trans people are who they say you are and you’re not brave for being a bigot my wrist hurts

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    1 hour ago

    As I almost always find myself saying when one of these drops, sucks but it could be seen coming for a couple years at this point.

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      3 hours ago

      I really wouldn’t use very old racist typologies. If you were, you’d say she was of the Armenoid sub-race.

      Some Nazi thoughts on the “armenoid” sub-race

      In his works, Hans F.K. Günther portrayed the Jewish people as a specifically non-European racial mixture comprising Armenoid, Semitic, and Negroid elements.

      The German physical anthropologist Egon Freiherr von Eickstedt characterized the Jews as a racial mixture that is primarily of the Armenoid type.

      According to Croatian fascist Ustaše ideologists, only 5% of Croats, but 35% of Serbs were of the Armenoid race.

      They described the race as being “characterized by a dark complexion and a personality prone to trickery, fawning and cheating”.

      In the early 1900s in the US:

      Armenians were also vilified for being stereotypically thievish and dishonest. Adults and children alike regularly faced racial invectives such as “dirty black Armenian,” “low-class Jew,” and – most commonly – “Fresno Indian.”

      I think Armenians are generally seen as white in anglo countries, but it’s not a stable category.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    6 hours ago

    As expected, going the way of Bill Maher and Destiny. Being a reactionary liberal who hates the Republicans while increasingly agreeing with them. Also known as a scratched liberal.

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Okay so I’m just gonna say some stuff and I haven’t really thought about this too much so I’m shooting from the hip here but it seams like being a TERF takes vastly more effort than not being a TERF. Like it’s way more work than being a bog standard misogynist. So the issue isn’t that they are lazy, per se, it’s that they’ve chosen to die on this very frustrating reactionary hill. So you can’t even kinda defend them by calling it ignorance. No, they had to do work to get here, and they still concluded the worst fucking things.

    I try to be nice to people and be patient and tolerant because, partly, I can. That’s a privilege I have as a cis man. Somebody saying “I hate trans people” isn’t a direct threat to me. I still condemn it, I tell them to shut the fuck up, but I can afford to try to talk them down from those rhetorical ledges because I’m not in the cross hairs, if you know what I am saying. I can try to interrogate them and be a little more objective about it because I’m not having to defend my right to exist. Like it’s one of those fucked up ways where you can use their bigotry to shut down a bigot and I’m willing to use any tool I can to combat that stuff. Again, it’s how I can use my privilege. Privilege doesn’t go away because I pretend it doesn’t exist so I should use it tactically.

    The point I’m trying to make here is that I don’t extend that to TERFs because they’ve clearly thought about it! They’ve rehearsed talking points and stuck their heads in sand. So they should be bullied into oblivion.

    • SSJMarx@lemm.ee
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      1 hour ago

      :mental-gymnastics-1: Trans women are women, trans men are men.

      :mental-gymnastics-2: insert just about any JKR toot here