Targeting / HarassmentPSA: There is a Chrome extension called "Shinigami Eyes" that the TQ+ crowd uses to track and trace people they deem have transphobic views out there. It's about as sad and pathetic as it sounds.

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[–]QueenOfTheNorthSuperLesbian 48 insightful - 1 fun48 insightful - 0 fun49 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't know any other group that goes out of their way to this extent to find things to be upset about.

It all goes to show that their entire ideology is built on a house of cards. Human belief is a powerful tool. Take money as an example. Because we all believe that money can be exchanged for goods and services, money has a lot of value. If society as a whole up and decided that money was worthless it would become worthless - things only have the worth they are ascribed en masse. TRAs seem to be taking this to the logical extreme - if we force absolutely EVERYONE out there to see us as our desired sex, then we become the desired sex! They keep seeking "transphobia" out because sects of people who don't believe the illusion are as dangerous as people who don't believe in the value of money in a newly established economy, or who don't believe some medieval ruler is the rightful king. They must be silenced since their entire existence is only an idea, a belief, a thought. They are the opposite sex in the feeble way in which a king has power, through belief, it is like a shadow. It is not based in material reality and falls apart when people no longer believe or have the language to discuss it.

Trans is something everyone has to pretend in order for it to work, which is one of the fundamental ways in which it is different form homosexuality. Homosexuality doesn't have to be believed in and if the language to describe homosexuals didn't exist, homosexuality wouldn't disappear, while the same being true for transgenderism would make it fizzle out completely.

That's another reason they keep inventing new words, new flags, new genders and new sexualities. It's in an effort to make something that's fundamentally nothing seem more than just a shadow on the wall, to give it legitimacy. They see a reddit sub of biological lesbians as a big threat because actually it IS a big threat. Any disbelief suspends the illusion, even one person allowed to speak out against it is blasphemy. Because the disbelief can spread and suddenly you're just a man in a dress who chemically castrated himself again - suddenly the king is wearing no clothes.

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Money is a natural phenomenon and wasn't always controlled by governments, and while it is symbolic, its success or failure isn't exactly determined by majority belief. It's more like, majority trust in a medium of exchange results from that medium possessing a non-arbitrary set of qualities (qualities which have been consistent across time and all manner of civilizations).

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[–]QueenOfTheNorthSuperLesbian 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Right, I'm talking more so about paper money. Trade has always existed, but paper money is a relatively new phemomen, and even newer is digital money - there is no gold behind either. It used to be that you could go to a bank and exchange your paper money for some actual gold but over time that evolved to the paper money being just as good as the gold and now there's no gold to back it up, it's held together by belief. Money itself is worthless and not made of anything valuable, it's symbolic, and if we all suddenly stopped believing in its value and digital money there would be issues. But, property and resources and land always have tangible value

[–]soundsituationI myself was once a gay 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Regarding digital money, time will tell how solid the current cryptocurrencies are. But one major thing it has going for it is decentralization, which actually gives it a leg up on gold, or gold-backed paper. Even gold is a symbolic store of value, of course - what I'm saying is that in the case of money the qualities that make it valuable (or not so valuable) aren't arbitrary; societies select for these qualities before agreeing to a common medium of exchange. Just because something is conceptual doesn't make its properties arbitrary; that the Venezuelan Bolivar doesn't equal the US Dollar isn't a matter of mass (dis)belief, but rather one of fundamental differences. We could all suddenly stop believing in a currency but that wouldn't circumvent the need for some kind of currency, as direct trade is impractical outside of tiny communities. So, money is a naturally occurring need, and the properties that make it good or bad are consistent across time and culture.

Gender identity truly is a fugazi though. I think "non-naturally occurring money"--basically everything from WWI to Bitcoin--is analogous with gender identity ideology.