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>Chapelle has an outdated view of trans issues but doesn’t call for violence, which is Netflix’s line. Chapelle has a logically correct view of trans issues th
by 0xebc 5y ago
>Chapelle has an outdated view of trans issues but doesn’t call for violence, which is Netflix’s line.
Chapelle has a logically correct view of trans issues that's up to date. It's probably the view shared by a silent majority but it's politically suicide to even hint at, as he covered in his special. You can rob a pregnant woman at gun point and be considered a saint, but if you hurt a trans person's feelings, you're literally Hitler.
- blacktriangle 5y agoTrans are mentally ill and need to be treated as such, as in they need to seek professional help in accepting biological reality. Encouraging them in their delusions which they will never achieve is only hurting them, not helping.
- me_me_me 5y agoYou are mentally ill and need to treated as such, as in you need to seek professional help in accepting biological reality.
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- supernovae 5y agoOh, the old silent majority nonsense. You do realize that doesn't exist right and that mindset parallels the beliefs of racists... which.. doesn't surprise me.
- angelzen 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
- toyg 5y agoThe last 50 years of politics across US and Europe have proven over and over again that you ignore "silent majorities" at your peril. They have an annoying habit of making mincemeat of arguments for radical change when you least expect it. I'm sure there are parallel realities where 60s/70s counterculture stops Reagan and Thatcher from winning (twice), but this isn't one of them. Lay out your case for change, by all means; but you should always assume that you start from a position of minority until proven otherwise.
- supernovae 5y agoIf you look at the data, it certainly isn't the silent majority, it's the vocal minority. Look at the last US election, they tried to destroy democracy and claim fraudulent elections to uphold these absurd beliefs. It's so bad, that many states are making it harder for the people to vote just to perpetuate this nonsense.
- toyg 5y agoYou are equating "silent majority" and "hardcore right wing". That's not how it works in practice - this is something that both right and left can and do get wrong.
- supernovae 5y agoYou're assuming left vs right, The only side that feels there is some universality here is the right. The left is HIGHLY fragmented - always has been, always will be. That gives people on the right this messed up "silent majority" notion that just isn't true.
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