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    2 months ago

    There’s a difference between recognizing that defending democracy is absolutely the #1 thing to be talking about and doing that and entirely going “blah blah” at basic human rights

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      2 months ago

      Trans rights are literally human rights. I’m fairly certain the Democratic platform is to protect human rights. How would it benefit us to focus on one particular niche right among the others, many of which are way more important?

      • the right to clean air
      • the right to clean water
      • the right to medical care
      • the right to free speech
      • the right to choose your own gender
      • the right to remain silent
      • the right to eat pizza in the shower
      • the right to affordable housing
      • the right to education
      • the right to stick things in your butt
      • the right to listen to music
      • the right to eat random debris
      • the right to have cats
      • the right to own blankets
      • etcetera
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        2 months ago

        I’m fairly certain the Democratic platform is to protect human rights.

        *offer void for Palestinians and trans people.

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          Oh so Democrats are adopting policies to intentionally harm trans people now? To you not campaigning on something automatically means the candidate will work against that thing?

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            Oh so Democrats are adopting policies to intentionally harm teams people now?

            They came around on immigration. They’ll come around on trans rights. Wonder who’s next.

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              What is the cost of trans to society? Because there is in fact a cost to not keeping a minimum of control over how many people and who can immigrate to a country, so it’s perfectly normal to want people to get in through the regular process instead of jumping a wall.

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                2 months ago

                You’ve adopted Republican talking points about immigration. You’ll do the same with trans people.

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                  It’s not a Republican talking point, it’s a pragmatic talking point. Just like you don’t give birth without the State knowing about it so they know who lives where and is entitled to what, you don’t want people immigrating without knowing about it and filtering the people coming in to catch the few that shouldn’t be allowed in the country at all.

                  Progressive parties all over the world have the same point of view, immigration needs to happen but it needs to be done correctly.

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                    2 months ago

                    It’s not a Republican talking point

                    It 100% is. Which Republican talking points are you gonna adopt when (not if, WHEN) Democrats show their true colors to trans people like they have to the undocumented?

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            2 months ago

            Thread’s about how the party ignored the rights of trans people. And I’ll notice you ignored what I said about Palestinians. Human rights also includes foreign policy.

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              Any defense of human rights is a defense of trans rights. I’m not sure why you find this confusing. Maybe you want these rights to be enumerated for pandering purposes?

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                Any defense of human rights is a defense of trans rights.

                Hogwash. It’s completely possible to defend human rights for some and not for others. Which is why you keep ignoring what I keep saying about Palestinians. How are their human rights holdin’ up? How are Democrats’ defense of human rights a defense for Palestinians’ rights?

                Oh yeah, they’re selling weapons for the genocide of Palestinians. Turns out, “any defense of human rights” is not the same thing as “defending all humans’ rights.”

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                    Ok, so you want me to be happy with a party that is concerned with human rights for only some people.

                    If your support for human rights does not include Palestinians, how can anyone trust that it includes trans people without some indicator?