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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Unfortunately there are more common sense articles about this issue on RT, breitbart, etc.. I do now think there’s a segment of antifa that just wants to smash things and terrorize people... and think there’s an overlap between them and the trans extremists, particularly after reading that trans-extremist manifesto that someone linked on here. I think there’s a segment of BLM infested by them as well. What pisses me off is how people are using the rights of African Americans as a cover to push their own personal agendas and as an excuse to smash religious statues and vandalize things.
Guarantee you; for example, the corporations who promise to give more jobs and opportunities to minorities in the name of BLM will simply go and hand all those jobs to rich white transwomen.

I should say, I don’t like fascism. I don’t like the fact that police in some areas are extremely biased against minorities. I can see legit reasons to protest peacefully and legally (within reason) in regards to those issues. Just wanted to put that out there. I think these movements are being hijacked with people who have sinister motives.

[–]WrongToy[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I agree fully. But it's not just them.

Elsewhere, like on an NFL board that opened a politics annex, I argue politics regularly with mostly men. Some seriously think that women have this "pass" in getting over on men in potential sex-harassment situations. But these same leftist men will bend themselves in a pretzel about racial injustice. These guys are overwhelmingly white and liberal and have assigned it to themselves that they know best.

In fact when a Black guy came in to say, "hey man I'm not down with BLM as an organization," one white guy boomer gave it to that Black guy and CALLED HIM A RACIST. Because this white guy worked at Jack in the Box as a youth and they had Black friends on their HS team. So they are against oppression. This same white guy goes around thinking women must have an advantage because they'll "always win" at sex harassment.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? If not just substitute "trans" for your favorite oppressed category, which they think they are.

I'm increasingly nervous about the election. I can't vote for Trump. But I also don't trust anyone who's pronoun stanning. I understand the gist of intersectional theory but am not a fan of it's current application. I'm in the position of WEB Debois where it's so disgusting I might exercise my right to not take part in that particular contest, as I see the same means to an end. No one cares about the means anymore. The ends being for yet another cadre of powerful males and their handmaidens to lord things over, cancel people over, what they don't like.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. I feel like I’m the target person to “hate” at this moment: a “Karen”.

It doesn’t require much to be considered a “TERF” or a “Karen”.

These woke dudebros likely don’t bend over backwards to argue on behalf of black women, I’m sure. It’s all turned into a man’s movement.

[–]Rationalmind 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They are vulnerable to hijacking because they are leaderless demonstrations. It requires a lot of people to recognize and stop the crazies from taking over.

[–]OrneryStruggle 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The BLM organization itself is a TRA organization (read their about on their website), and antifa is similar in that regard although they have the cover of "not being organized" (they are). Antifa definitely does operate as a terrorist org even if a lot of the hangers-on to antifa are just regular kids who care about social justice.

It is pretty par for the course for people with sinister motives to hijack or seek cover under organizations that 1. promote anonymity during violent altercations, 2. get a lot of funding to "disrupt" society in various ways, 3. don't have official leaders participating in/leading protests and thus make it hard to hold anyone accountable for the actions of the group.