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[–]insta 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Harvey Milk.

Not saying you have to make the guy a saint but there's a reason they pay attention to the people they do.

[–]usehername 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Huh. Thanks for the bit of history.

Not saying you have to make the guy a saint but there's a reason they pay attention to the people they do.

Yep. Oppression points.

[–]insta 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I dunno, I'm getting tired of people giving them the benefit of the doubt of "Oppression Olympics!"

At what point do we just admit that these people are just hateful? They are actively "trans-washing" history because they just have a problem with cis people or hetero people or white people. At what point is this not cute anymore?

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

I dunno, I'm getting tired of people giving them the benefit of the doubt of "Oppression Olympics!" At what point do we just admit that these people are just hateful?

I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive. It's not cute, but it's the hateful game they play.

[–]insta 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't think those two things are mutually exclusive.

I'm starting to believe they are. These people never give us the benefit of the doubt with some silly name. "Oppression Olympics" is just a cute name for racism, sexism, and sexual preference discrimination.

They would never give us the benefit of the doubt with such nice interpretation, they'd call us evil and try to ruin our lives. People just have this tendency to handwave or dismiss these people as if they don't have near complete institutional power.