@the_corvidae They quite succinctly examine how puritanism and violence normal in typical discourse is harmful. Itโs a bit odd to compare pastors defending abuse to OP describing how dehumanizing opponents is counterproductive. Thriving off opponents suffering is rather antithetical to leftism
@_kueller@autumnrain80 The point Iโm making, is the colloquialism not the spirit of the term needs to change. HRT being treated as a rare reverent gift is a sweet sentiment. Ideas of magic can be treated the same and can do a lot to address patterns of harmful thinking
Malgendering does exist but it's in reference to actual material harm, like a trans girl being arrested for indecent exposure for being topless (selectively being acknowledged as a girl), and then being sent to a male prison to be brutalized and sexually abused, for example.
If youโre trying to invalidate the identity of any trans woman, let alone belittling black trans women for their gender expression, youโre not meaningfully a transfeminist in any sense.
@DeliciousAthena Gendered discourse falls into traps Leftists pursuing 18th century notions of class consciousness find. Knowingly or not cis women with proximity to whiteness, closeness to western conceptions of idealized humanity, benefit enforcing systems feeding transmisogynoir
like do not pmo ppl who launder their racism/antiblackness thru "transfeminism" and ppl who launder their transmisogyny thru "anti-racism" are ideological siblings in spite of their apparent differences - both born of the same transmisogynoir
Genuinely one of the dumbest statements Iโve ever read in my life.
Right wingers literally just invent their own version of history & pretend that itโs true.
Argentina has never been socialist, and every single pro-labor Government they had in the 20th century got overthrown in a coup backed by conservative business interests or the CIA.
The Argentine military junta that overthrew Isabel Perรณn in 1976 was one of the worst dictatorships in South American history.
The CIA gave them kill lists of union organizers & Communists, while training them in MK Ultra style torture techniques.
The economy was completely liberalized over the next several decades & handed over to Western corporations & banks.
This culminated in a complete economic collapse by 1998, known as the Argentine Great Depression.
You have to be so historically illiterate to claim that Argentina has been socialist for 100+ years that itโs actually kind of astounding.
This is how delusional you have to be to support capitalism in the big 2026.
@girlsbian_ POC as a term in the west, must die. WP love lumping ALANA ppls together to thinly veil anti-Asian, Latine, Black, and Indigenous rhetoric behind fundamentally compromised "inclusive" language. Some forgot where "colored" came from, before woke 1.0 co-opted it from racists.
@TransAndMerican What an odd, micro-aggressive, unfounded, and frankly uneducated claim to make in 2026, when 600,000 black women have lost employ through attacks on DEI and millions lost bodily autonomy 4 years ago. The Fed holiday celebrating fully realized freedom from slavery was days ago.
@carmenthunder@peculiarethan Top bottom discourse reinforces heteronormative power structures. Thatโs not an individual identity decision, itโs how understanding of the roles shapes power.
Hong Kong lawmaker Dominic Lee brilliantly exposes the hypocrisy and decay of the West:
โWhat moral authority does the U.S., a country ruled by the Epstein class, have over my country which has lifted 800 million people out of poverty?
What moral authority do NATO countries have who preach human rights while turning a blind eye to the Zionist genocide in Gaza?
We will not accept lectures by governments that use human rights as weapons while their own hands are stained with the blood of Palestinians and Iranians they choose to forget.โ
@obatunse This comment is everything she describes. Black men feel they are owed Black womenโs lives, actions, adoration. BW are penalized for any perceived dissent by reactionary discourse men overwhelmingly perpetuate in community. Critique makes us stronger, silence enables weakness.