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[–]theytookourjerbsXX only. 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Everybody is basically a TERF nowadays according to them. Terves, terves everywhere.

[–]ComradeHedgehog 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And in reality, that is essentially correct.

Insofar as "TERF" has basically just come to mean "literally anyone who doesn't uncritically swallow our ideology hook, line and sinker (HOW DARE THEY!!)", that is inevitably going to encompass an absolutely huge and extremely diverse set of people. Men and women; gay, straight and bi; of all nationalities, skin-colours, and religious backgrounds; and across the political spectrum.

They wanted "TERF" to use as a handy pejorative against anyone who disagreed with them. Well, now everyone's a TERF, because the vast majority of people the world over disagree with them. They're playing it for now (trying to "smear" conservative people as radical lefties and "smear" left-leaning people as radical conservatives, for example), but the truth is that this development is, in the longer term, very very bad for the TRA Bandwagon, as it is becoming harder and harder to hide the fact that concerns over their behaviour is almost universal in the real world.

[–]theytookourjerbsXX only. 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Thank you for taking your time to reply! You're absolutely correct; it is a derogatory term against anyone that disagrees with them. They don't really have any logic like thinking right leaning people are liberal or left leaning people are conservative like WTF! I've even got called a liberal by nazis and a conservative by commies in the past, and I was a right-libertarian then. I'm now more centre-libertarian nowadays.