As Malcolm X explained, minorities are routinely used as a political cudgel in feuds between parties — and the promotion of extremist voices is part of that today.
> political forces ensure that even if this was happening you wouldn't know about it
…which is why it’s important to occasionally share those thoughts in your personal life, to help unwind that narrative for people around you.
As everybody knows off course, only the things you hate are actual and real, and you're being noble and virtuous by talking about them. While the things your opponents hate are disinformation and a mirage, and they're being hysteric and alarmist by talking about them.
Looks like you made it clear what you're doing.
It is a special breed of shamelessness to accuse others of your own vices.
It's hilariously disingenuous and backward how you mention the reaction to the encroaching transgender ideology without mentioning the action itself that prompted it. The bathroom and sports bills are defensive measures against the ideology infiltrating institutions and allowing the easy access of vulnerable spaces to mentally unstable individuals.
>what political power is the 'transgender ideology' wielding.
Other than
- In [1] an academic professor is fired for publishing a book critical of transgender beliefs
- In [2] a school covered for a trans rapist who raped a teenager in the girls bathroom, he was eventually transfered to another school where he raped a second teenager.
- In [3] an. archeologist is fired for trans critical views
- [4] documents several other cases of harassment perpetrated by trans ideology supporters in academia
- In [5], a British political party struggles with the definition of a woman, party representatives repeatedly refused to answer straightforward questions about basic female biology to avoid angering the trans lobby
- In [6], as in [5], a US Supreme Court judge refused to answer the question "What's a woman", citing that "She's not a biologist".
- The social media giants ban any dissenting discussion. Examples too numerous to mention, and can be empirically reproduced for yourself.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/may/22/kathleen-s...
[2] https://news.yahoo.com/judge-rules-loudoun-county-teen-13141...
[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-021-01950-9
[4] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349967840_The_Gende...
[5] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/labour-s-refusal-to-acce...
[6] https://www.politico.com/news/2022/03/22/blackburn-jackson-d...
Is your argument that people should just accept their lot in life and not challenge the status quo? Or more that they should do it in a way that doesn't upset anyone.
I see that you have some concerns here, I don't see why your response is to try and ostracize or ban this thing you don't understand.
"The bathroom and sports bills are defensive measures against the ideology infiltrating institutions and allowing the easy access of vulnerable spaces to mentally unstable individuals."
He considers transgender women to be mentally unstable predators who want access to women's spaces in order to attack them.
If that’s what you think then this wasn’t the debate I thought it was.
Do you think that all gay people are pedophiles too?
I do not argue for this, the existence of a systematic and widespread ideology does not necessarily imply that the ideology is all-powerful or has full support.
But you can't handwave away the rather obvious evidence that this "minority" has some curious methods to impose its will on a whole lot of people, can you ? How is this small, oppressed minority capable of terrifying the heads of political parties and judges of high courts away from answering questions that any 18 years old can reliably answer ? By the power of looking adorable and saying 'Please' ?
>Do you think that all gay people are pedophiles too?
I fail to see why this is relevant to the discussion now, but no. I don't think there is a link between sexual affinity to same sex individuals and sexual affinity to children.
Besides, who are you expecting to do the denouncing and what are they supposed to denounce? Before I started this comment was I supposed to do a quick google search and see if there were any fringe activists saying something to denounce? What's the time scale I have to cover before I can reply to your comment. A week? A month? What if I already denounced it in another thread, do I have to do a recap of everything I've denounced in every thread?
I'm not calling you racist, No one asked you to denounce racism or misogyny, so why are you bringing it up?
> there’s enough people out there denouncing the misappropriation of their identity by politicians to make it clear that they don't represent that group
This is laughably unquantifiable and political forces ensure that even if this was happening you wouldn't know about it.