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Even if you live in a western country you do all of that anyway. Self-censor at work and online so I don’t get fired or banned from w/e. Accept elected officia
by yachad 1y ago
Even if you live in a western country you do all of that anyway. Self-censor at work and online so I don’t get fired or banned from w/e.
Accept elected officials whose policies don’t match up with popular opinion and accept standard employment hierarchy.
- Rover222 1y agoThat's very different than worrying about going to jail for life or getting disappeared.
- ryandv 1y ago[flagged]
- hax0ron3 1y agoI'm against extrajudicial deportations to El Salvador, but those people are not being deported for their political opinions. As for trans/LGBTQ+ genocide, it does not exist in the West.
- ryandv 1y ago[flagged]
- philipallstar 1y agoThis seems identical to saying that convincing someone with anorexia that they aren't overweight is "social death", and "social death" is (somehow) genocide. I.e. it's nonsense.
- ethersteeds 1y ago[flagged]
- graemep 1y agoBody dysphoria is a recognised mental illness.
- account42 1y ago[flagged]
- graemep 1y agoBeing gay is not generally recognised as mental illness, although it has been in the past. Being trans is less well defined (historically even being gay was not well defined, or defined the same way).
- Akronymus 1y agodysphoria is certainly a mental illness, transitioning is merely one possible treatment for it (though, pushed as one of the first rather than as one of the last options, which I personally find concerning.)
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- bombcar 1y agoUsing the same word “genocide” for what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in the US seems to make language pretty useless.
- graemep 1y agoTo say nothing of using the same word as what happened in the holocaust or to the Armenians or native Americans or Rwanda or is happening in Xinjiang....
- ryandv 1y agoThis is what I have been saying for years. The far-left progressives have literally raped language beyond all recognition. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Men are women.
- watwut 1y agoThe obvious difference is that people with anorexia die and people who transition live happily.
- boppo1 1y agoUh, some do.
- graemep 1y agoHow is that genocide? No one is being killed, no culture is being erased, no community is being wiped out. People might be persuaded to change their viewpoints but they are not forced to or sent to re-education camps.
- const_cast 1y agoRepeatedly denying GAC or banning PrEP as Republicans try to do every few months does indeed lead to death, yes. Granted we're not under Reagan, but Republicans are practically praying for another AIDS crisis and doing everything in their power to make it happen. Straight people largely don't know this because, well, it's not their problem.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoCalling this genocide is ridiculous levels of hyperbole This sort of nonsense is why many people do not take LGBT issues very seriously If there was an LGBT genocide happening in America, there would not be open pride celebrations, come on
- FirmwareBurner 1y ago[flagged]
- const_cast 1y ago[flagged]
- Rover222 1y agoThis hyperbolic take hurts your causes more than helps them.
- yachad 1y agoSo what? Lose your job, lose your housing. Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot.
- anikom15 1y agoSome people value freedom more than comfort.
- graemep 1y ago> Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot. Decent prison conditions tend to overlap with countries with decent human rights. IN authoritarian countries you might very well be starved or tortured in prison. You might also just disappear and your body may or may not be found in an identifiable state.