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@MaeRenValen @pinkcellgirl Yes, this proves that there are valid incentives other than profit

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@TTRR03623284771 @businessfishes @RepJoshG It's ridiculing the argument that a statement is antisemitic because you can replace one word with another. This example shows somebody replacing a word with a word in a way that is bizarrely irrelevant to make the original statement seem bad.

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@242mphFalcon @realAtlasPress Fredrick Douglas convinced him not to. Your statement is simply untrue in its original assumption.

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@nigstnguemyanus @ANTHYHIMEJOSHI @JosephRobert28 @sweetfruitwine No, it invokes a time in which white people claimed to be superior due to their law given power over minorities. A false sense of superiority and inferiority that some still push, and they use "white pride" when doing so. Pride for other races is rather associated with resilience

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@AndyTheRedBeard @mattyglesias Talarico is a person who chooses love over hate, and preaches kindness and acceptance. Now, what is the worldview and behavior of his opponent, because I don't think it can be described as being that positive.

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@smarkstrickland @mattyglesias Gender affirming care and surgery are different. Care can refer to hrt, which is very reversible, and therefore more supported for minors, and not the same as surgery.

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I also just think that accepting people is basic decency, and should be the default in general, and also that the social elements demonized by the culture war such as being queer genuinely don't matter, and people therefore no judgement should be made on that basis.

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I consider a lot of the culture war to basically be a bribe to poor people basically saying "we may be economically exploiting you, but you are still better than the dirty queers we'll make life worse for." It feels like the racial bribe but for culture instead of race.

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This analysis mainly comes from The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander. She coined the term "racial bribe" and I think it explains why bigotry still exists today, because it's profitable.

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Further on the racial bribe, originally slavery was mostly indentured servitude for all races until bacon's rebellion, in which both races rebelled. After that, only black people were enslaved, which appeased the still exploited white people. Racism became a profitable myth.

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"If you can convince the lowest cis straight person they're better than the best queer person, they won't notice you're picking their pocket. Hell, give them somebody to look down on, and they'll empty their pockets for you." - Alternate universe LBJ (LBGay perhaps)

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@ScorpioVoid @Arizona_LP Nazis killed LGBTQ people and burned their books.

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@Anonomega3 @rojariadna67 The right is to not be discriminated against for being trans. Accepting other people for who they are is just not being a bad person.

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@wario_chalmers @szn3fortnite @Alt_Azn Genuinely, WHO do you think is paying the private prisons to run. Do you think just because the government and taxpayers don't own it they don't pay? The government,and thus taxpayers pay the private prisons! You are still paying for them!

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@X_StrayThoughts @USJewishDems This implies that being queer is inherently about sex, which is false. Do you think they like a gender purely for sex, and that's why they are gay? Straight women like men for reasons beyond sex, why can't men?

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@JohnnyK54257525 @NaziCringe Cows did not consent. The children do. Very easy to understand

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@ChiefPreemo @PurpleBarn147 @RandomHvacGuy Genuinely what could possibly be the end goal for the said "elites?" Literally the world's richest man is telling people to have more children

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@truthoverview @ValidHazelTrans It's not about what people identify themselves as, it's what they believe they are. Someone who claims to be a woman right after arrest is very likely to not believe that they are truly female. The same does not go for regular people, who have no reasonable malicious intent.

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@Lizard2_2 @SinnerSalvation That Palestinian baby we bombed stole Grenada in a past life trust

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@MrInKryption @nyaraVT Whether or not you call this behavior Transphobia, the parent objectively did outwardly say that trans people are wrong and bad. You said that saying trans people are wrong will prevent them from being trans. This is a case where that does not prevent this.