Mastodawn

Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us.

Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us. - Lemmy.World

> When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way. > Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away. I fell for obvious right-wing propaganda and rationalized the hate with reason and logic. Now the hate machine is coming for me and that’s not fair!

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Kindness is Punk 2d ago

You’d have to have been asleep for the last 50 years at least to not see this.

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givesomefucks 2d ago

Nope, this is natural.

Like, straight up default human behavior, and conservativesare actually really good at manipulating people using basic human psychology.

An absolute shit ton of people who grew up as “outsiders” really just want to be with the majority “in group” and are willing to side with them against smaller minorities.

Like, that’s the whole TERF thing in a nutshell.

Women who were treated poorly for being women, and trying to side with their abusers against a weaker target.

It’s literally the reason most mothers abuse their children. Same psychology, just different target.

Hell, it’s the same reason weak men target women and children in the first place

An innate desire for a “human pecking order” that displays at varying rates due to normal human variation.

Racism too, LBJ described it generations ago after seeing firsthand what Republicans were doing in the South:

If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you."

snopes.com/…/lbj-convince-the-lowest-white-man/

We need to understand why this keeps working to fight it…

LBJ: 'If You Can Convince the Lowest White Man He's Better Than the Best Colored Man ...'

President Lyndon B. Johnson, who grew up in the South and understood the politics of racism from the inside, saw it in part as a ploy to divide and conquer.

Snopes

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WideEyedStupid 1d ago

It’s literally the reason most mothers abuse their children.

I’m sorry, but most mothers abuse their children? Where did you get this?

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givesomefucks 1d ago

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That’s really how you took that?

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proudblond

I took it that way too honestly. Honestly it made me skip reading the rest of your argument until I saw the comments below it talking about what you actually meant, so yeah, syntax is annoying but necessary for getting the point you want to make across. (I did go back and read the rest of your argument.)

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givesomefucks 1d ago

Fucking depressing…

Let’s try again:

Having diabetes is the reason most people inject insulin.

Do you think that means:

Most people inject insulin.

Of the people who inject insulin, the most common reason for doing so is they have diabetes