Germany almost conquered Europe because while it went around attacking those worse off than itself, every nation with the power to stop it decided they couldn't be bothered and that if they just let Germany have its way it would be satisfied.
There's so much attention seeking in right wing politics. There's no personal benefit to harassing minorities, they do it because they want to make you angry, because they desperately want you to pay attention to them.
It's pathetic and childish.
Social power is the one real power we have and we've gotten lazy with using it.
Find the transphobes in your community and make them feel as unwelcome as physically possible.
If we all started doing this ages ago we might not have gotten into this mess.
"A democrat president enabled a genocide so you should vote for a republican instead" bitch Republicans have been calling for this specific genocide for decades. They wouldn't just enable it they'd be at the forefront of it. The fuck do you think you're fooling.
Like you say he was starting to get aggressive but then the evidence you showed of that did not show aggression to me, it showed the nervous attention seeking of an autistic person. Like, that shit was me back in high school.
I have a theory that many right wingers have refused to build up media literacy as a defense mechanism.
Most of their favorite media openly and actively disagrees with them, so to resolve this dissonance they decide it's easier to believe media somehow says nothing at all.
To the handful of people who follow me, I'm sorry if me arguing with a terf these past few days showed up on your timeline. I keep trying to assume there's enough inherent good in people that they can come around, but I keep getting disappointed.
I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt and assume you were just misguided but well intentioned, because it does nobody any good not to do so, but when you kick down the door without consent, explicitly to blame others for not doing so
When someone identifies as a free speech absolutist, what they actually are is a "my speech absolutist". As in, they get to talk all they want, and they want you to not be allowed to talk.
When many claim to fight for freedom of expression, what they really mean is that they fight for the freedom to express what they want people to express.