You're comparing running into crazy rhetoric on extremist parts of tumblr and "all PIV is rape" radfem blogs to the sort of bigoted shit you see from people in real life, out in the world. People aren't normally going to run into the former unless they go mining for it online (or visit /r/TumblrInAction) whereas you can walk outside and run into the latter
And if someone refuses to listen to reason after encountering "SJWs" on the internet, chances are they were never going to come around anyway
First of all, I'm not in any way comparing the "plight" of people who are annoyed by discussions of privilege to real-life bigotry. I'm talking purely in terms of analyzing how the general level of discourse re: privilege came to be at the level it's at, how it could hypothetically be more constructive, and why changing the term we used (which someone was suggesting earlier) would do absolutely nothing.
Second, you don't need to go anywhere near that level of extremist environment to see shades of these kinds of attitudes. Both sides of it tend to crop up in some capacity anywhere the topic is discussed, even here on the PA forums. Well, not "die cis scum"; I've never actually seen anyone say that unironically in real life.
Third, some people (maybe even most) really do turn out to be completely hopeless, but I don't doubt that there are also a lot of uneducated fence-sitters who end up driven the wrong way by circumstance. Didn't Gabe himself have a big post on the front page a while back about this exact thing, where he had a mutually antagonistic relationship with trans activists for a while and then later changed his understanding?
I guess I don't understand how reasonable people can be expected to police the rhetoric of the "die cis scum" type then
there's always going to be an angry response to inequality that will in turn anger those who perpetuate that inequality. it sucks that hearts are hardened and people are driven the wrong way because of that, but reining in the undiplomatic people in the age of the internet is impossible
A group of people caught up in unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white officer killed a black teenager, sued local officials on Thursday, alleging civil rights violations through arrests and police assaults with rubber bullets and tear gas.
The suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, says law enforcement met a broad public outcry over the Aug. 9 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown with "militaristic displays of force and weaponry," (and) engaged U.S. citizens "as if they were war combatants."
The lawsuit seeks a total of $40 million on behalf of six plaintiffs, including a 17-year-old boy who was with his mother in a fast-food restaurant when they were arrested. Each of the plaintiffs was caught up in interactions with police over a period from Aug. 11 to 13, the suit allege.
Named as defendants are the city of Ferguson, St. Louis County, Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson, St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Delmar, Ferguson police officer Justin Cosmo, and other unnamed police officers from Ferguson and St. Louis County.
This is the population distribution of the US by district:
It's actually pretty indicative of how (comparatively) good the Northeast is about these things that the strip of people from Maryland to (Southern) Maine aren't red despite how densely populated that area is.
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There was a thing not so long ago where someone was trying to demand one of the Game Grumps to out themself under the pretense that it's going to help young LGBT folk that watch their show
It was some tremendous mistreatment of said Grump - and is also a reminder that nobody is responsible for representing any minority group they belong to.
Yeeaaaah.
I mean, it's awesome if/when someone in that position uses their popularity to help raise awareness on issues.
But doing that also makes you a huge target. Some more than others.
I am becoming increasingly happy I have no idea who that person is
a major TERF activist that makes it a habit of outing and/or harassing trans women that enter her sights, as well be a major supplier of transphobic rhetoric
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I am becoming increasingly happy I have no idea who that person is
a major TERF activist that makes it a habit of outing and/or harassing trans women that enter her sights, as well be a major supplier of transphobic rhetoric
I am becoming increasingly happy I have no idea who that person is
a major TERF activist that makes it a habit of outing and/or harassing trans women that enter her sights, as well be a major supplier of transphobic rhetoric
I was happy a minute ago
it's a name trans women need to know because there is a less than zero chance she'll decide to make any of us a target
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The Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) is the ex-gay organization that stirred up the right wing world by claiming that a trans kid (whom we will refer to as Jane Doe, for reasons of privacy) in Colorado was harassing cisgender girls in the restrooms. Right wing media outlets jumped at the story without conducting any fact-checking, prompting members of the right wing community to call for the death of the trans kid.[18]
Cathy Brennan's Gender Identity Watch site jumped in to help the PJI attack the trans teen.
The Pacific Justice Institute claims that a male student, NAME CENSORED, who claims to be transgender, has allegedly harassed female students in the girls room at Florence High School.[19]
Even after Brennan learned that the teen was on suicide watch,[20] she has left the teen's real name on her blog as well as updating it recently.
Welp
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I am becoming increasingly happy I have no idea who that person is
a major TERF activist that makes it a habit of outing and/or harassing trans women that enter her sights, as well be a major supplier of transphobic rhetoric
I was happy a minute ago
it's a name trans women need to know because there is a less than zero chance she'll decide to make any of us a target
Thank you
It makes sense that there's people like this given the world we live in, but I hadn't fully realized
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ha ha, Portland appears to be more racist than Seattle
and Idaho's definitely pretty racist
I guess I don't understand how reasonable people can be expected to police the rhetoric of the "die cis scum" type then
there's always going to be an angry response to inequality that will in turn anger those who perpetuate that inequality. it sucks that hearts are hardened and people are driven the wrong way because of that, but reining in the undiplomatic people in the age of the internet is impossible
Can't be racist if nobody lives there!
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That one red spot in NM
is a town of ~6000
Red?
It's actually pretty indicative of how (comparatively) good the Northeast is about these things that the strip of people from Maryland to (Southern) Maine aren't red despite how densely populated that area is.
Motherfucking miracles.
"the irish were persecuted too, ya know"
lol
Yeeaaaah.
I mean, it's awesome if/when someone in that position uses their popularity to help raise awareness on issues.
But doing that also makes you a huge target. Some more than others.
For some people it's jut not worth it.
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...because no-one in Florida can work out how to use a computer.
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most can only aspire to the same level of human filth as her
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Florida is the largest mass media and internet consumption region in the united states.
i may be biased but lawsuits are the solution to all life's problems
I don't even understand her
She is fucking hate and bitterness personified.
99% of all such downloads come from the Villages. Attempt no visitation there.
rumor has it that it started when a trans lady wouldn't get with her
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Are you serious
who knows, ma'am
who knows
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a major TERF activist that makes it a habit of outing and/or harassing trans women that enter her sights, as well be a major supplier of transphobic rhetoric
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
I was happy a minute ago
it's a name trans women need to know because there is a less than zero chance she'll decide to make any of us a target
Twitch (I stream most days of the week)
Twitter (mean leftist discourse)
Welp
i think on this we can all agree
Thank you
It makes sense that there's people like this given the world we live in, but I hadn't fully realized