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[–]Finnegan7921 17 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 0 fun18 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They compare everything to white supremacy so that if someone argues with them, the person doing the arguing gets called a white supremacist and then has to go on the defensive. They get to argue on their terms. Racism is bad, so anything they don't like is racist and anyone who defends the thing in question is undoubtedly a Klansman. That's why Chas Strangio linked Rowling and Shrier to "white supremacy".

It is similar to "whataboutism", which is a shorter way of saying "i'm a massive hypocrite here but I want to win this argument, so I'll gaslight everyone reading into thinking that the shitty actions of the people/group i'm defending don't matter by using an internet term."

[–]diapason 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ugh I especially hated when they called Abigail Shrier a "white supremacist". She's Jewish, it's so offensive for them to lob that stuff at her just to slur her

[–]MarkTwainiac 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They've also called all the women in the UK who've brought legal cases challenging trans dogma white supremacists, even though most of them - such as Maya Forstater, Keira Bell, Raquel Rosario Sanchez and Allison Bailey - are not white.