A. The goal should be to achieve progress, not win elections
B. That involves making the case for that progress, not capitulating to popular opinion that’s been fabricated by conservative media
But that’s only if you’re not operating on a dialectical-materialist political analysis, because if you were you’d understand that real progress can’t be made through simple electoral victories. Abandoning minority protections in exchange for electoral power is how America has operated since its founding.
cater the minority of the 1% of the population that is tens and doesn’t understand that open support for their cause might lead to a Republican instead
I’m sorry, their ““cause””? Is “we have a right to exist” the ‘cause’ you consider to be the thing alienating ‘a big part of the electorate’?
Why are you here? Go back to reddit, jesus christ.
Yes, open support by a politician for your right to exist alienates part of the electorate even on the Democrat’s side, open your eyes buddy, the trans right cause is controversial!
Trans rights aren’t up for debate you spineless chud. How could anyone suggest the democrats are a left-wing party (or expect ‘progress’) if the democrats can’t even acknowledge that trans people have the right to exist? Why should anyone vote for them if they abandon civil liberties as soon as they become politically inconvenient?
Fuck off with your transphobic apologia. Democrats can fuck off, too, if they think they can abandon minority rights in exchange for political power.
It’s ridiculous how many times I’ve had to quote this recently.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate
who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace
which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods
of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of
time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of
good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more
bewildering than outright rejection.
I’m not calling you transpbobic, I’m calling your rhetoric transphobic apilogia. Trans rights ‘not being popular’ is not a valid reason against defending trans rights. It’s not simply a matter of legislation: by avoiding the topic it gives legitimacy to its controversial nature that was completely manufactured to begin with. The longer it goes unchallenged the more states will continue passing anti-trans legislation and further disenfranchise
You’re not helping by telling people to shut up about it, you’re making things way worse.
“A big part of the electorate” doesn’t care one way or the other about trans rights. All throughout centrist apologists have been saying “most people don’t care about Palestine enough to affect their vote”, they just want kitchen table progress. But somehow when the issue is trans rights, you people think it’s some vote-defining issue that will sink the election if there’s a single trans speaker in a weeklong convention.
Just the same old fucking white moderates doing the white moderate things King talked about.
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A. The goal should be to achieve progress, not win elections
B. That involves making the case for that progress, not capitulating to popular opinion that’s been fabricated by conservative media
But that’s only if you’re not operating on a dialectical-materialist political analysis, because if you were you’d understand that real progress can’t be made through simple electoral victories. Abandoning minority protections in exchange for electoral power is how America has operated since its founding.
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I’m sorry, their ““cause””? Is “we have a right to exist” the ‘cause’ you consider to be the thing alienating ‘a big part of the electorate’?
Why are you here? Go back to reddit, jesus christ.
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Trans rights aren’t up for debate you spineless chud. How could anyone suggest the democrats are a left-wing party (or expect ‘progress’) if the democrats can’t even acknowledge that trans people have the right to exist? Why should anyone vote for them if they abandon civil liberties as soon as they become politically inconvenient?
Fuck off with your transphobic apologia. Democrats can fuck off, too, if they think they can abandon minority rights in exchange for political power.
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It’s ridiculous how many times I’ve had to quote this recently.
I’m not calling you transpbobic, I’m calling your rhetoric transphobic apilogia. Trans rights ‘not being popular’ is not a valid reason against defending trans rights. It’s not simply a matter of legislation: by avoiding the topic it gives legitimacy to its controversial nature that was completely manufactured to begin with. The longer it goes unchallenged the more states will continue passing anti-trans legislation and further disenfranchise
You’re not helping by telling people to shut up about it, you’re making things way worse.
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“A big part of the electorate” doesn’t care one way or the other about trans rights. All throughout centrist apologists have been saying “most people don’t care about Palestine enough to affect their vote”, they just want kitchen table progress. But somehow when the issue is trans rights, you people think it’s some vote-defining issue that will sink the election if there’s a single trans speaker in a weeklong convention.
Just the same old fucking white moderates doing the white moderate things King talked about.
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As I said, the same old white moderates doing white moderation.
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