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By Harrison Fisher [1877-1934] (via)
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Only in the uncritical cis universe does "I will defend myself when faced with violence" mean "OMG DEATH THREATS WHY DO YOU WANT TO KILL EVERYONE YOU ARE JUST AS BAD AS THE ASSHOLES WHO WANT TO KILL YOU VIOLENCE SOLVES NOTHING."
You do realize that females are socialized to expect violence, becausw we get violent treatment, mostly from males?
You do know that violent language is abusive?
You do know that violence is wrong?
Right?
You do realize that trans people are socialized to expect violence, because we get violence, and it comes from males and females, right?
You know that language such as “deluded” and “a biologically male human being with gender identity disorder who erroneously believes himself to be a woman” are manifestations of stigma and shaming that have real life, physiologically harmful results and are a form of violence, right?
You do know that violence is wrong, right?
Right?
Oh, wait, that’s right — you say it isn’t violence. You say deluded. You say that people should follow someone who says the italic part above and you promote a book the purpose of which is to make a case for the genocide of a political group of persons that you (and that book) label as such.
And you think that you have the right to tell other people that they shouldn’t be committing violence?
Oh, wait, you do, because you wrote a long post trying really hard to justify two wrongs into one of them being right, and it *just* so happened you found a way to make your side the one in the right, using — wait for it — the shame and stigma associated with transness that is predominant in the same class of people you belong to — those who do not cross.
Why, aren’t you the one that said *sex matters* over and over again, and then conveniently forgot that sex and gender are the same damn thing in most languages on the planet? Aren’t you the one who conveniently retconned linguisitc history so that they never meant the same thing ever, even though they *still do* in most situations and the only time they don’t in the sciences (like biology, which your compatriot there might want to update herself on since she’s using twenty year old understandings that are way, way out of date).
Aren’t you the one who keeps using gender as an expression of physicality? Aren’t you the one who keeps saying that you’ve never threatened anyone when you hurl axes at people online?
With Mary’s attached, no less (and do you know how offensive it is to those poor gay men that you are throwing axes with marys attached?)!
oh, wait, that’s right, you are also the one that lost her sense of humor, so now I have to go back and line out the funny.You are not radical. You couldn’t be radical if you had a threat of violence hanging over you. You are not a feminist. You are a woman who wants only certain kind of women in her ideology around womanhood.
You, my dear, are a sad, sad example of what not to do and what not to be, and the kindest thing I can summon up for you is a mix of pity and compassion for the way that your own actions placed in in complicity with the thing you loathe even more than myself.
precious stones before those who see not their value, but damn, did it feel good.
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5 ways hate is expressed
Hate. In the US, the word has become a loaded term, flung most often in hostility, to mark out something that is not socially acceptable to do any longer.
The use of hate is a moral assault — we, as citizens of the US, are not supposed to hate other citizens of the US. We save that for people from outside of it.
One of the core tenets of the most popular and largest sects of religious beliefs here in the US is that one should not hate: love your neighbor as you love yourself.
And yet, hate — an intense and driving dislike of a particular person or group of persons — is something that we recognize we are not very good at not doing. And so we have laws and rules and policies regarding what it is that constitutes speech which furthers, creates, encourages, and protects those who engage in actions that are hateful, and words which bring about those actions, both directly and indirectly.
Recently, Shiela Jeffreys was denied permission to speak at an event which seeks to do many different things, but which carves out a specific set of boundaries for itself, often based on the principles about which she speaks. The basis for this was that she engages in hate speech.
Her reaction to this was that holocaust denial is not hate speech. That’s not precisely what she said, mind you. But in effect, when you reverse the structure of her sentence, that is how it comes out, as she said that her words were not akin to holocaust denial, but to the people she is actively engaging in hate speech about, it sure as fuck is the equivalent.
So, for the benefit of those who may not be aware, I am going to give you 20 different examples of the expression of hate. You do not need to follow a particular ideology to use these, as this isn’t about the ideologies involved, this is about the expressions — the actions and words, not the thoughts — of hate that are commonly seen.
Love & Rockets - Jaime Hernandez
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You know how there was an awesome sign at a church that said “bigotry wrapped in religion is still bigotry?” And it became huge on the Internet? I think we should start something along the lines of “transphobia wrapped in feminism is still transphobia.”
TRANSPHOBIA WRAPPED IN FEMINISM IS STILL TRANSPHOBIA
Can this be the new hip saying please
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Thank you Dr. George Tiller. Thank you for your service to women in their most desperate times. Your dedication will never be forgotten.
RIP
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