Transphobia is the start of the left to rightwing pipeline.

submitted by xoenix from old.reddit.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Even if you politically side with the Palestinians, how the actual fuck can you look at pictures and video of terrified people doing what they are told in the hopes of surviving and having their still captive loved ones survive, and claim it's genuine love and respect for their captors.

It's because they're completely disconnected from reality. Between the echo chambers and the natural insulation provided by watching this stuff through sanitized (and carefully spun) media, they can embrace the lie that Hamas are just innocent victims themselves.

Anything really bad that they do is either the work of bad actors or propaganda from certain (coughcoughJewishcoughcough) sources--or, in the minds of the the quietly bloodthirsty supporters, obviously deserved--and most of Hamas is obviously nothing like how they're portrayed.

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

I fucking despair for humanity. I didn't think so many people were so very, very stupid while thinking they are so clever that they are happy to actively promote their stupidity online. This morning I saw a twitter post from someone who walked past the school in Dublin where a week ago three children and a care worker were stabbed, and he complained that there were a pair of drunks/drug addicts sitting on the entrance steps that the children had to walk around. Straight away some fucking white knight jumped up to berate him for his prejudices against the poor victims of addiction. The original poster was clearly making a point about the lack of care being shown by the gardai to the children and staff of a school that had just gone through a very real trauma. The state should be doing everything they can to help those kids feel safe but they are being ignored. And this stupid shit jumps up to call the person pointing this out a bigot.

[–]LyingSpirit472 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well, the problem is more we're in the endgame of "politics as sports team". Humanity spent millennia under the viewpoint "people are willing to come around if you show them they're right", and all it took was about 15 years of social media to change that to "you don't get it, do you? We'd RATHER BE WRONG than admit you're right, because if we admit you're right then that means you WIN!"

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

It's because they're completely disconnected from reality.

Oh the irony.