TRANSGENDER“Arm Trans Kids” - Let Women Speak meeting in London park (Hyde Park Speaker’s Corner) attacked by masked TRAs - media reports mutual violence, even though we all know that only one side was violent.

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[–]UncleWillard56 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

So if you're trans and have a big demonstration, nobody attacks you, but if you're anti-trans (or really just keeping it away from kids and schools...perish the thought!), you're not allowed to have a rally to express your views? All this TRA talk about fascism and it turns out they're the fascists.

[–]LtGreenCo 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Neither are fascists. To be a fascist you'd have to be an Italian under Mussolini and it would have to be early 20th century, among other things. Attempts over the years to evolve the definition beyond that have all failed and there's no widely agreed-upon academic definition aside from the original. So these days people just ascribe the label to anybody for any reason because if you can paint others with a word that has a heavily negative baked-in connotation then it is easier to dehumanize them.

[–]UncleWillard56 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Meh, that's a very narrow definition. I like the more general one:

a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

The difference is that any side can become this and the left is working overtime labeling anyone who disagrees with them a fascist, while using the same strategies to gain control.

[–]LtGreenCo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Problem is not everybody agrees on that definition.

[–]UncleWillard56 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Truth!