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Wording matters. We should want people to listen and join. This has been making the rounds without a great deal of backlash. (50501.chat)
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Originally Posted By u/NotYourUsualSuspects At 2025-03-27 01:02:51 PM | Source

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[–] 8 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

No... The left "lashing out" about things like trans issues is about literally allowing people to exist as they are. The left "lashing out" on the right about the economy is because Republican presidents have historically been much worse than Democrat presidents in this regard (this is relatively common knowledge, but I could find a source if needed). Etc.

In fact, the first one doesn't even fit your model as Democrats do not single out "others" to target.

I'm so tired of this false equivalency. The outrage may look similar at a surface level, but only on one side is it completely (objectively) justified.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Agreed.

    I’m all for emphasising class war.

    But this “culture war” also includes the human rights of trans people, disabled people, migrants, marginalised folk in general.

    I think it’s dangerous to say it’s unimportant. Yes the purpose might be to distract us, but if we let the right win, we are letting them literally commit social murder against groups of people. This isn’t about whether a gay flag is allowed to go on the street. It’s about if a disabled person is allowed to request accommodations and therefore have a job instead of starving to death. It’s about if a trans person has the right to exist openly without being locked into and abused in a psych ward.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's by design. One of the fundamental mechanisms of right wing rhetoric is DARVO. They turn it around to accuse you of being the aggressor.

    The fact that the root comment has 20 upvotes for two days without rebuttal until your reply is an example of why lemmy is no better then reddit. Wtf is everyone smoking that you all don't have grasp of the basic rhetoric by now.

    Some times I think it's all theater. Any and all of this opposition. How much of it is controlled opposition... Maybe it's just two goals on a field largely controlled by the same team. Whatever. I'm sure someone will be along shortly to aggressively tell me I'm a clinically insane leftist.

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