…I could have told you that 🤷
Source: https://x.com/BriannaWu/status/1984574165643403370
Not my usual kind of source (Xitter), but I want any centrists out there who ask trans people to “just get along” / compromise with actual hate groups that want them eradicated to know that it doesn’t work.
There is no such thing as a reasonable bigot, by definition.
I just replied to another comment with this but I’ll put it as a top level comment here because I think it’s important.
I want MORE right wing idiots to realize they’re wrong and join our camp. The more the better. Remember, these people are still our neighbors, they still exist and we will have to interact with them outside our homes. I want more reasonable people, so when we do have converts, please receive them with open arms.
Okay, you were a huge idiot, but welcome to sanity part 1. Of they’re big enough to realize they were wrong (and they’ve had a LOT of brainwashing, it takes a lot for them to snap out of the crazy) we should be big enough to say bygones.
I understand the want for revenge because they were “the enemy”. I understand, they were a huge asshole and now we have to play nice with them? That doesn’t sound fair! But I think we have to, we want to welcome more idiots into sanity and reason. The less idiots out there, the better. And for what it’s worth, there are people that listen to her, if they can now be on the side of reason, they can pull a lot more people with them.
If we don’t we’ll make it harder for people to move out of the right wing camp, and I want much much less people in the right wing camp
Maybe in general, but in this case Wu is a far right genocidal fascist, and not just on trans issues. And it certainly doesn’t seem like she’s changing that except on the one issue that affects her personally. A trans woman fascist is still a fascist, you shouldn’t get points for carving out an exception to your fascism to protect yourself personally.
Part of the problem is, this is not the first time this assault on minorities has happened; and many of the people who voted for Trump were previously thought of as allies who were reformed.
We can even scare our own allies by “making nice” with villains. I remember hearing out a very betrayed voter whose core issue of dismay was hearing Gavin Newsom get cowed by Joe Rogan into saying supporting Trans people was a mistake.
People like Joe Rogan have HURT them. I want you to picture having someone that ruined your life, and picture what it’s like to have them sleeping in your home, based on nothing more than “Hey, bud. We’re good now, right?”
There’s a difference between “making nice” in the sense of compromising values as you mention and between giving them a chance to prove they can grow out of their hateful mindset. They’ll have to work for that trust, but we should be willing to forgive and accept them back if they show genuine change.
It wouldn’t be directly moving into your home, but more like the general neighbourhood. If they turn it good neighbours, then their past hostilities can serve as a lesson and an object study, but shouldn’t eternally shackle them.
We should also understand that some people can’t forgive some wounds. Just because it’s the ideal doesn’t mean it will, can or even has to be fully attained.