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[–]turtleduck23 47 insightful - 2 fun47 insightful - 1 fun48 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

honestly i am glad he's getting hate because it's going to peak more people like it did with JK Rowling. hopefully eddie realizes that there is no in between, you either have to support the trans movement 100% without question or you are a horrible terf.

[–]Constantine 28 insightful - 1 fun28 insightful - 0 fun29 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Remember how the actress who played Luna Lovegood gave a similar response a few weeks ago and ended up deleting her Twitter account because of the blowback? If this shit doesn't peak people, I don't know what will.

[–]Dravidian 25 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 0 fun26 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It makes me so mad about Evanna. She's pretty vocal about how JK Rowling basically saved her life. Of course she's going to defend the woman who gave her a will to live over the feelings of some dudes online, for fuck's sake. I hope she's okay.

[–]insta 21 insightful - 2 fun21 insightful - 1 fun22 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

hopefully eddie realizes that there is no in between, you either have to support the trans movement 100% without question or you are a horrible terf.

People already know this. Anyone who isn't some out-of-touch retiree knows that if they are at all vocal about this issue it will be problematic for their career if not personal life. I've challenged a few people who deny this to post the forbidden things on their social media accounts with their jobs in their bio (spoiler: nobody has actually followed through).

Seriously, I am so tired of people pretending there's not this roving gang online that just goes around to fuck with people who happen to disagree with them on a topic.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is an interesting concept. I was just listening to an interview about something similar to this. They were talking about a certain black author who was causing some backlash on Twitter for calling something racist. Basically that they have created a binary of opinion where something is either antiracist or racist. He legitimately believes that "not racist" doesn't exist as a category. That is a problem but the bigger problem is that he assumes that he gets to decide what constitutes antiracist as a definition and so anyone who doesn't fall directly inside his narrow definition of antiracism is racist "by definition" .

I don't want to call this "the left" because this type of authoritarianism is right wing politically. It's more like extremist social or cultural liberalism. It's amazing how well that story aligns with this story. If you don't align with the gender religion mob then you are a Nazi. They don't let you have a neutral or moderate position.

I need to go think about the connection.