How DO we put up with it?

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9 responses to “How DO we put up with it?”

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   iknklast

   Sep 28, 2020 12:12 PM

   What I’m wondering is how the LGB put up with it? The most murdered part of LGBTQ? Really? But…the statistics show…

   Oh, wait a minute. I forgot. They identify as being the most murdered, the most oppressed, the most vulnerable, the most suicidal. That’s all it takes. They identify as that. Who am I to question?

   Good form, Basil (I mean, John).
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   mikeb

   Sep 28, 2020 1:23 PM

   ikn–

   This G–yours truly–has no truck with the Bacon Lettuce & Tomato Queens.

   i yam what i yam
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   Nullius in Verba

   Sep 28, 2020 1:30 PM

   Most murdered? Come off it. One look at official homicide statistics should put that to rest, but activists are actively hostile to data. Just as with the religious, statistics and math and facts are not how they came by their beliefs in the first place. Remember, “If your original Hebrew disagrees with my original King James — your original Hebrew is wrong. If your original Hebrew agrees with my original King James, your original Hebrew is right.”

   They’ve heard the idea that trans people are being murdered and denied basic rights at a terrifying rate. They’ve heard it a lot. As Daniel Kahneman wrote in Thinking, Fast and Slow, “People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by ease with which they are retrieved from memory.” Because they so easily recall claims of the dire straits of trans people, they are absolutely certain that any stats showing a contrary scenario are false. And now everyone they talk to treats the claim as obviously true.

   Whether due to the company they keep or social media siloing, they’ve heard it about trans people more than any other group, and everyone they interact with is of like mind. As Albert Speer wrote:

   … in normal circumstances people who turn their backs on reality are soon set straight by the mockery and criticism of those around them, which makes them aware they have lost credibility. In the Third Reich, there were no such correctives, especially for those who belonged to the upper stratum. On the contrary, every self-deception was multiplied in a hall of distorting mirrors, becoming a repeatedly confirmed picture of a fantastical dream world, which no longer bore any relationship to the grim outside world. In those mirrors I could see nothing but my own face reproduced many times over.
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   AcademicLurker

   Sep 28, 2020 1:49 PM

   “Wrong side of history” is becoming one of those phrases that cause me to just tune someone out after I hear them use it.
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6. 

   Acolyte of Sagan

   Sep 28, 2020 6:20 PM

   This tweet is on the wrong side of history

   Blimey! So on top of the power of transubstantiation, they now claim the gift of prophecy, which is the only way I can think of to know for certain how future historians will view the present.

   I’m glad they tell us that their beliefs about themselves are nothing like religion because otherwise I might be fooled into thinking otherwise.
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   PD

   Sep 28, 2020 8:24 PM

   It’s better to be on the wrong side of history than the wrong side of reality
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   Acolyte of Sagan

   Sep 28, 2020 8:55 PM

   There are kids world wide growing up in a tough enough situation without their favourite author coming for them.

   After beating the shit out of Harry and stealing his magic broomstick and wand, it amused the wicked J.K. Growling to seek out the most oppressed children of all, wherever on the planet they may live, and on finding one to swoop down from the sky on the poor, unsuspecting waifs. Alternately cackling maniacally and screaming hate, she would chase the terrified, be-penised little girls, all the while aiming the stolen wand to fire transphobullets at their desperately fleeing bodies.

   Inevitably, with their movements hampered by the unfeasibly tight dresses and killer heels they needed to wear in order to pass as young ladies, the children would soon tire and collapse exhausted in a heap upon the ground, turning their sweet, tear-stained little faces to the sky, resigned to their fate as the merciless Growling at last delivered the fatal shots.

   After each successful attack, the evil one would use one of her wickedly sharp talons to scratch a ‘T’ into the broomstick and then scratch a line through it.

   ‘Another one bites the dust’, she would chuckle, before launching herself skyward to hunt down her next victim.

   This is true. I know it is because I just made it up myself and I identify it as the truth. And you people support this proven mass murderer! Shame on you!
9. 

   iknklast

   Sep 29, 2020 9:56 AM

   AoS, you owe me a new keyboard! Spitting out coffee in the hilarity of reading that is definitely not good for the old thing.