TRANSGENDERMermaids’ useful idiots - Journalists, teachers and activists all defended Susie Green

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[–]clownworlddropout 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

More importantly, how do we stop this from happening again.

We went straight off the rails with this shit, and I'm glad we're starting to see the end of it, but what can we learn from it to help stop it from happening again, what caused this mess? Was it social media? Echo-chambers? Advocacy groups losing focus? The politicization or commercialization of medical practices? Dying conventional news outlets rage-baiting for profit?

There's a lot to unpack here, as they say.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

how do we stop this from happening again?

A good first step might be to disentangle debate and moral judgements. We should be able to debate a subject without casting our political opponents as evil or wishing them harm.

We should reject any argument that is made in an emotionally coercive and controlling fashion - agree with me or I will kill myself!

We should immediately repudiate anyone who likens speech to violence or wishes to restrain the speech of their opponents, either through law, deplatforming, cancellation or threats of violence.

We should declare that use of violence for political purposes is always wrong, no matter who does it - and that includes bringing your own masked goon squad to “protect” you.

Shouting down people is admitting that you have no argument to make and you lose.

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Naw fuck you faggot. I think you are an intrinsically evil piece of shit and should step on a lego for your fucking crimes against hughmanitee and the work you do to sabotage the queer race and future for trans babies.

[–]ClassroomPast6178[S] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Those poor, poor trans babies!