LifestyleHad a phone date with a new guy ruined over trans rights when neither of us are even trans

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[–]quickbeam 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hate that this shit gets conflated with the left. I would say if someone voted for Elizabeth Warren there's a decent chance they are a "woke" leftist (despite the whole native appropriation thing which was somehow okay). If a left wing person voted for Bernie Sanders, however, there's probably a 75% chance or higher that the woke thing is an afterthought and they mainly care about things like universal healthcare, climate change and raising the minimum wage. I can understand how people get this woke. A lot of them are only half paying attention or TRA stuff doesn't affect them and they just want to do the right thing. And some of them are the same types who used to show up at a protest with a totally irrelevant sign for a fringe cause. So it's not the whole left, by a long shot.

[–]metta78 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Actually, yeah, I never thought about it, but I'd say most of the Warren people I knew were totally cultural leftists, and I think that's why they hated a lot of the Bernie supporters because their progressivism was situated in shifting the economic system to work for more people. I think the latter would support equality for all people (which is why you'd might see them on the same political team) but the cultural leftists wanted to get in the weeds of the intersectionalities of the most marginalized, and really, to be frank, use identity politics to leverage power - which, as we've seen, is something radical, nationalist politics use as well - vs hey let's do something to lift up everyone. It's no wonder these cultural leftists have the same stink of authoritarian tactics and regressive ideas on them.