I don’t support that path - I just recognise that the only alternative also includes all of that and the subjugation of American women, further endangerment of LGBT folks, etc.
The point about genocide being binary is that someone is either willing to commit it, or they aren’t.
Biden and Harris(and Trump, presumably) are willing to commit genocide. The basis of that willingess is an underlying belief that some people matter more than other people. And some people don’t matter at all.
And you hope that by supporting the people that hold that belief that they won’t add your group to the list of people that don’t matter to them.
There were lots of Germans that felt the same way. We have literal books of history and poems telling us that they were wrong. Fuck, I know you’ve heard at least one poem making this point.
‘’'First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
‘’’
That’s you. Doing everything you can to ignore the Democrats already signaling that they would be willing to throw trans people under the bus.
You think my side are being morally condescending and use phrases like ‘high horse’ But that is just people who support the Democratic party trying to justify their own willingness to work with genociders. I’m not trying to pass moral judgement on you and your side.
I’m trying to explain to you that the moral quandary is not new. It is old, and has happened many times before, and your strategy HAS NEVER WORKED BEFORE.
Imagine you have two children, and someone kidnaps you and them and tells you to choose which one lives, and if you don’t choose, they will kill both.
If you don’t pick, who is responsible for killing the children? You for not choosing or the person that pulled the trigger?
EDIT: not sure why the poem is not formatting correctly.
I don’t support that path - I just recognise that the only alternative also includes all of that and the subjugation of American women, further endangerment of LGBT folks, etc.
You do support that path.
You are actively doing so right now.
The point about genocide being binary is that someone is either willing to commit it, or they aren’t.
Biden and Harris(and Trump, presumably) are willing to commit genocide. The basis of that willingess is an underlying belief that some people matter more than other people. And some people don’t matter at all.
And you hope that by supporting the people that hold that belief that they won’t add your group to the list of people that don’t matter to them.
There were lots of Germans that felt the same way. We have literal books of history and poems telling us that they were wrong. Fuck, I know you’ve heard at least one poem making this point.
‘’'First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.
‘’’
That’s you. Doing everything you can to ignore the Democrats already signaling that they would be willing to throw trans people under the bus.
You think my side are being morally condescending and use phrases like ‘high horse’ But that is just people who support the Democratic party trying to justify their own willingness to work with genociders. I’m not trying to pass moral judgement on you and your side.
I’m trying to explain to you that the moral quandary is not new. It is old, and has happened many times before, and your strategy HAS NEVER WORKED BEFORE.
Imagine you have two children, and someone kidnaps you and them and tells you to choose which one lives, and if you don’t choose, they will kill both.
If you don’t pick, who is responsible for killing the children? You for not choosing or the person that pulled the trigger?
EDIT: not sure why the poem is not formatting correctly.