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Joe Exotic's husband deported by ICE (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Joe Exotic posts on instagram that his husband was deported by ICE after years of shilling for Donald Trump.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

A husband is someone who wants to be a husband and has consent from the person they’re a husband of.

No, a husband, wife or spouse is in a legal marriage with their partner, and in many jurisdictions carries specific legal rights involving one's partner. That's what makes them one of those terms and not a boyfriend, partner, fuckbuddy or whatever else. Unless you want to go the route that every noun or adjective describing a human is an identity, and thus no words for describing people can possibly have any meaning other than "person who applies this label to themselves."

Both of these words are identities, and letting people be who they want to be when it doesn’t affect other people is one of the values of the left. So you can go ahead and extend this reasoning to all personal identities that don’t harm others, and I think that answers your question.

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You sure about that? And that's without jumping deep down the radqueer rabbit hole. Lots of identities in there that mainstream progressives will reject the idea that you can simply identify as (even if we ignore the weird pro-pedo stuff).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

Hm, no. Marriage isn't a legal construct. The government doesn't have the right to own people's relationships. Legal marriage is a legal fiction, true marriage is in a person's heart.