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It's worth actually checking out this person's Insta account. Contrary to her claim of being centrist, she's gone into full-on attack mode on trans rights - sha

It's worth actually checking out this person's Insta account. Contrary to her claim of being centrist, she's gone into full-on attack mode on trans rights - sharing content equating support for them to child grooming, etc. This isn't "I've left the activist bubble" - it's "I've left one thought bubble and joined another". The last paragraph of the post is "Be wary of simple explanations, black-and-white thinking, and any ideology that presents the world as locked in a battle between good and evil. Take it from someone who once channeled this kind of simplistic thinking into popular memes for a living: Everything worth knowing is much more complex than any slogan can possibly convey.". A glance over the meme- and Twitter-hot-take-filled Insta account should probably reveal that while this is a nice bit of writing, it's entirely self-promotion and doesn't reflect this person's reality.

rayiner 4y ago
> full-on attack mode on trans rights The memes say that supporting the Bostock decision like 77% of republicans do,[1] is equivalent to “child grooming?” [1] https://www.kff.org/other/press-release/poll-large-majorities-including-republicans-oppose-discrimination-against-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-people-by-employers-and-health-care-providers/ https://www.kff.org/other/press-release/poll-large-majoritie...
the_only_law 4y ago
> "I've left one thought bubble and joined another” As is usually the case.
grompot 4y ago
Just had a look at her Instagram, seems quite reasonably centrist to me, and not the one-sided anti-trans ranting you allude to. She has posts there from notable trans people, implicitly supporting them, for example: - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdodU8lubEm https://www.instagram.com/p/CdodU8lubEm - screenshot of a tweet from transwoman Blaire White, criticizing sex change interventions in minors. - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCOA9NmDp https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCOA9NmDp - a screenshot of a tweet from transman Buck Angel, criticizing the "one-sided trans narrative". And some posts exposing some of the worst excesses of modern transactivism: - https://www.instagram.com/p/Cds3MSGubdm https://www.instagram.com/p/Cds3MSGubdm - a young adult with massive, ragged scars across her chest, from having had removal both breasts and nipples, apparently for gender reasons, having been convinced to do so by other people online. Horrifying. - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCluHNDe2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCluHNDe2 - a trans-identifying male attempting to breastfeed a baby by inducing artificial lactation through a drug that increases his prolactin levels. Knowing that the baby won't be receiving real breast milk from this experiment, and subject to malnutrition, it's quite the disturbing image of child abuse. It's not all trans posts either: - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdmBDsxukOm https://www.instagram.com/p/CdmBDsxukOm - Candace Owens being critical of how the crimes of white supremacists and black supremacists are reported differently in popular media. Seems that she's looking at both sides and taking a critical position in the middle somewhere.

rayiner 4y ago

> full-on attack mode on trans rights The memes say that supporting the Bostock decision like 77% of republicans do,[1] is equivalent to “child grooming?” [1] https://www.kff.org/other/press-release/poll-large-majorities-including-republicans-oppose-discrimination-against-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-people-by-employers-and-health-care-providers/ https://www.kff.org/other/press-release/poll-large-majoritie...

the_only_law 4y ago

> "I've left one thought bubble and joined another” As is usually the case.

grompot 4y ago

Just had a look at her Instagram, seems quite reasonably centrist to me, and not the one-sided anti-trans ranting you allude to. She has posts there from notable trans people, implicitly supporting them, for example: - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdodU8lubEm https://www.instagram.com/p/CdodU8lubEm - screenshot of a tweet from transwoman Blaire White, criticizing sex change interventions in minors. - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCOA9NmDp https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCOA9NmDp - a screenshot of a tweet from transman Buck Angel, criticizing the "one-sided trans narrative". And some posts exposing some of the worst excesses of modern transactivism: - https://www.instagram.com/p/Cds3MSGubdm https://www.instagram.com/p/Cds3MSGubdm - a young adult with massive, ragged scars across her chest, from having had removal both breasts and nipples, apparently for gender reasons, having been convinced to do so by other people online. Horrifying. - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCluHNDe2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CdpCluHNDe2 - a trans-identifying male attempting to breastfeed a baby by inducing artificial lactation through a drug that increases his prolactin levels. Knowing that the baby won't be receiving real breast milk from this experiment, and subject to malnutrition, it's quite the disturbing image of child abuse. It's not all trans posts either: - https://www.instagram.com/p/CdmBDsxukOm https://www.instagram.com/p/CdmBDsxukOm - Candace Owens being critical of how the crimes of white supremacists and black supremacists are reported differently in popular media. Seems that she's looking at both sides and taking a critical position in the middle somewhere.