• WiildFiire@lemmy.world
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    And by trans rights they mean “we don’t wanna be fucking murdered for being trans”

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      But that’s not the case very often - you can live your life and a protest won’t stop the murderers.

      Protesting is ineffective full stop. In any scenario, I don’t care if it’s conservatives trying to ban abortion or transgender begging not to be killed.

      The most effective way to do things still stands: write a letter to your senator, and vote for senators with your views. If you don’t live in a democracy, plot a revolution and fight for your right to vote, which is something the North Koreans would do if they knew.

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        Protesting is ineffective full stop.

        Couldn’t be further from the truth. Every single right you have that doesn’t directly benefit rich white men was achieved by people protesting until politicians could no longer stand in the way of justice without being trampled, figuratively speaking.

        Write a letter to your senator and vote for senators with your views

        Aww, you still think all senators care about what you want if you’re not supplying the legal bribes they depend on for re-election and personal enrichment? AND you think either of the two major parties of the US will just let you vote for someone who actually represents your interests rather than a corporate stooge who can help further enrich the private corporations masquerading as public organisations?

        That’s fucking adorable! 😂

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          that doesn’t directly benefit rich white men

          The in-group was originally even far more narrow than that: it was basically xtian cishet land-owning white men. Thank goodness there is a framework for changing that, though.

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          …it is illegal. I don’t know why you’re making it seem like there’s a death penalty for it. It’s not Saudi Arabia, you’re chillin’.

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        I’ll get right on that when there’s someone to vote for in my area with trans positive views. Not like they’ll be voted in given the right wing community in the local area to the point that we need anti-xenophobic counter protests whenever they march downtown.

        All my problems are solved, thanks

        Edit: Just for reference, I live in the UK, a place that’s just out a ban on places having exclusively gender neutral toilets

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        which is something the North Koreans would do if they knew.

        You’re one of those people who think the Jews were foolish for not having fought back against the Nazis, aren’t you?

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        If people did everything your way, the US would still be enslaving black people.

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          NAH. White men only harassed black men when they were first living amongst each other. Still happens today with old people that grew up in white circles, but they’re dying out. The real reason we had racism is because before the 1800s, black people lived in Africa and white people lived in Europe. When globalism and more travel happened, some met, but it was a lot rarer to see travellers back then. So when the US was founded, people from all around the world flocked and first lived together which lead to a lot of culture shock and some disgusting negative stereotypes. The simple act of white men and black men living in the same country was enough to slowly eliminate racism. And it’s pretty much completely gone in today’s society.

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        If this was how everyone thought it would be illegal for me to vote or own property or get a divorce…