Lieutenant Liana

All good, you did nothing wrong haha. I don’t think the other person was even genuinely criticizing your post, I think it was meant to be a lighthearted joke.

Besides, asexuality would be a lack of sexual attraction - I guess “agender” would be the only “a-something” that’s relevant to a male/female dichotomy.

See also: them now suddenly all caring about “the Jews” as long as it helps them put down Muslims, or the other way 'round.

The entire definition of “conservative” is built around “conserving” something that would otherwise be threatened by progress. Their entire thing is reacting to social progress and trying to prevent it.

Reddit in general is weird.

Ich bin älter als du du Hurensohn

War das jetzt schon ein “erschreckender antichristlicher Terroranschlag” gegen das ARD-Team, oder setzen wir Staatsangehörigkeit und Religion nur bei israelischen Jüd*innen gleich?

Bei solchen hirnentleerten rechtsextremen Kommentaren wie deinen fragt man sich echt nicht mehr, wie die AfD regelmäßig auf solche Prozentzahlen kommen kann.

? why?

?? I specifically don’t use KDE because I cannot stand its modern design. I’m on Trinity DE because I want something more 2012. This is not 2012 at all.

I don’t mind this.

Yeah. That’s why no amount of appeal-to-morals arguments is going to convince them. Nor will facts. The reason why we should argue against their world view is to convince those still on the fence, those who are at the beginning of the pipeline and can yet be saved.

If someone is on the fence between “trans women are rapists pretending to be women to gain access to women” and “please don’t be mean to us”, then the latter is going to look like a weak argument and the former is going to look “reasonable”. Hence the “facts versus feelings” narrative.

We constantly need to reiterate the central point: that gender is entirely fluid and a social construct not set in stone. Because that’s a genuine argument that could convince people.

I appreciate the sentiment but this is just not a very good arguing strategy.

Transphobes don’t think they’re just ruining some poor innocent trans people’s lives for fun and enjoyment, but they actually think they’re improving society by combating bad people. They think trans women are just an evolution of “I can turn the lesbians straight with my dick” misogynist men, or out to abuse children. If those things were true, they would be entirely justified. But they’re not.

If trans people hypothetically were the abusive creepy harassers that they make them out to be, it wouldn’t matter how few there are in society. I am also sure child rapists or terrorists are a very small part of the overall population, but nobody would argue that people who try to combat child abuse or terrorism are “unfair” or “unreasonable” just because child rapists and terrorists are a small part of the population and there’s bigger problems to worry about. It doesn’t matter how few evil people there are if you want to combat evil.

The point that we should instead argue over and over again is that trans people are not perpetrators, and that gender is genuinely a social construct and not majorly biologically determined, so their genders are as real as others’ since they’re just a social performance anyway.

It’s like playing the women’s autonomy card against anti-abortion people. These people genuinely believe that abortion is cold-blooded child murder. And if that were true, then obviously a woman’s right to commit murder would be ludicrous. No wonder they think we’re crazy from their POV. The problem is, abortion is not child murder. We need to argue against their wrong world view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_(political_current)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Germans_(political_current)

I’ never seen an ol’ chap spout bulldog like 'at!

Yeah, but the word took on a completely different meaning through internet discourse.

Maybe it’s just me in Germany, but most of our “anarchist” “antifa” subculture is pro-US and pro-Israel.

Yeah, for people who supported the crackdown on grassroots workers’ power protests in Prague. But that’s not what the word turned into via the internet.

The “tankie” thing is such a Reddit holdover, both the word and the people it describes. Nobody outside of those hyper-online teenage ideology spaces like Twitter or Reddit cares about those made-up political categories that are only based on aesthetics.

Always remember that both the pro-Hamas pro-Assad “socialist” shitposter and the pro-Israeli pagan plural trans anarchist are some American high schoolers who are too anxious to go out to a store, let alone participate in a mass movement or join an organization. Nobody in the real world cares about those basement dwellers.

If the people you want to criticize have terrible political standings, and they just LARP as socialists while supporting inane reactionary actors like Russia, the Hamas, China or the DPRK, then make an actual argument against them and fight them on their standpoints in the actual class warfare out there, instead of making a dumb-ass childish meme. Go join a party, go agitate, go organize your workplace, go read something. Analyze the class politics they espouse, criticize them on that point, not on some moral failing.

Both “tankies” and “anti-tankies” only exist on Reddit. Nobody cares in real life.

Edit: To clarify, I mean “tankie” as it is used now on the internet for anyone who’s not an anarchist or social democrat, not its original meaning dating back half a century.