[vintage-bentley]

It’s depressing to think about how many leftist viewpoints get completely abandoned in the name of Trans Rights™️.

Be aware of your privilege and make sure to not use it against marginalised people…unless you’re a man who wants to identify as a woman or a heterosexual who wants to identify as homosexual. Then it’s totally fine to use your privilege to barge into the spaces of those less privileged than you, and to talk over them.

Oppression impacts the human psyche deeply, and sadly it makes many oppressed people hate the traits they’re oppressed for…but don’t you dare suggest we analyse why a woman might want to identify out of womanhood, or why a homosexual might want to identify as a straight trans person, or why a woman might hate her female features so much that she wants them surgically removed or medically altered. These are valid identities that can’t possibly be related to the desire to escape oppression.

Capitalism is bad and consumers are exploited…but anything sold with the label “gender affirming” is amazing actually, and the people selling it absolutely have your best interests at heart. Buy buy buy all the cosmetic surgery, medical treatments, and pride merch your little heart desires and never once stop to think about why it’s being sold to you!

Listen to the oppressed and prioritise and amplify their voices, and learn from them to confront your own privilege and biases even when doing so is uncomfortable…except for women and homosexuals. When they say things that make you uncomfortable, they’re just evil cis TERFs that must be silenced and condemned! When they talk about how you’re harming them, it’s you who is the victim.

This is just off the top of my head, I’m sure there’s more examples so feel free to share if any come to mind. It feels so bleak being a leftist who actually sticks to leftist principles, when it seems like the majority of leftists are willing to abandon them as soon as the word “trans” is uttered.

[anartificialsatellite]

I know I've said it before but it's insane how entitled people feel to the Holocaust and how smug they get when they condescend to people about it, as if the dastardly and selfish Jews are hogging their own genocide

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[lovestruck-lusagi]

trans girls are allowed to be annoying and stereotypical and socially inept and hyperactive and hypersexual and various types of animalgirl and there's nothing you can do about it. in fact if you're mean to that skirt go spinny reddit trans girl i'm stealing your entire house

[featherweightwing]

When have men ever not been allowed to be annoying and sexually inappropriate?

[fematrix]

"enby icon" "transmasc icon" y'all genuinely can't comprehend a woman exercising her freedom, courage and leadership skills without some batshit conspiracies that she was secretly a man on a spiritual level

she got burned at the stake for wearing men's clothes, she was a teenage warrior protecting her country with whole patriarchal systems against her, show some fucking respect

Joan of Arc (1412 - 1432)

[troybarnesbucky]

i’m taking away most of the world’s right to talk about jews. i silence u all. shut THEE fuck up.

[iswearbyalltheflowers]

[lagtrainzzz]

i think transfems should be allowed to be good at sports.

sometimes a trans woman wins against a cis woman. sometimes a cis woman wins against another cis woman too. yet only one of them is allowed to win without facing consequences.

it's not enough to support transfems in sports if your support hinges on us being bad at them.

[featherweightwing]

If a male isn’t competitive enough to win in his own sex category, then he doesn’t get to compete.

Female sports are for females. Only. They are not a backup plan for men who can’t or don’t want to compete against other men.

[sethshead]

El-Sayed said he struggles with question of whether Israel should exist as a Jewish state

The Michigan Senate candidate questioned how Israel being a Jewish state is ‘consistent with any form of liberal values that we say we belie

How many Arab states have “Arab Republic” in their formal names? They massacre, oppress, forcibly assimilate non-Arab indigenous minorities like the Kurds, the Assyrians, the Copts. Why should they get to exist if Israel can’t? Israel does nothing comparable. Palestine’s constitution explicitly defines the country as Arab, which has been Fatah’s position since it adopted its founding charter in 1964. That same Palestinian constitution guarantees safety and citizenship to Muslims and Christians only; their country, whatever its borders, will be Judenrein.

Israel is a nation-state. It represents the self-determination of its majority ethnic population. This is an international norm, whether explicit or implicit, from Japan, the Koreas, and China (Han), through Central Asia and the Middle East (Afghan is a synonym for Pashtun) to Europe. The only continents that are the exception are sub-Saharan Africa, due to the influence of imperialism, and the Americas, which contain by definition the quintessential settler-colonial states.

So why is Israel the only country whose basic existence El-Sayed puts into question? Israel, with non-Jewish cabinet ministers, supreme court judges, senior military officers, disproportionately large numbers of doctors, etc. is your classic liberal nation-state. It is certainly far better to be an Arab in Israel than Roma anywhere in Europe, much less a minority of any kind in most of the rest of the world, namely the Arab world of El-Sayed’s parents.

I think we all know the answer. The very concept of Jewish self-determination, of Jewish empowerment and autonomy, of access and influence, strikes him as unnatural. It’s a basic presumption in much of the world, especially the Muslim world. Jews are expected to be a subject people, not an independent one; if that subordinate status is removed, then something fundamentally wrong is happening in the order of things. I doubt it’s even something El-Sayed can articulate; it’s more an unexamined prejudice that he frames as justice. Why else would he not speak the same way of Egypt or Sweden or Nepal, with whose existence he has no problem?

Do we need people with such massive blind spots in the Senate? Remember again: Jews are the canary in the coal mine. Those who hold prejudices against us always harbor other deep character flaws. Learn from Maine’s example.

[g1rluninterruptedd]

“woman doesn’t have a set definition” is a very privileged take. you are able to happily sit in a position where you get to act like woman has such a vague definition and you act like this should be accepted worldwide. but ask a woman in a third world country what it means to be a woman and what makes them a woman, and it’ll be pretty fucking obvious. women are oppressed because of their sex and have been for centuries. i’m not letting some males with hurt feelings overrule that because they can’t piss in the woman’s bathroom.

[tepkunset]

I feel like simply calling JK Rowling a transphobe isn't strong enough anymore. Like. This is not your grandpa calling you by your deadname at a restaurant kind of transphobic. This is her wanting to eradicate all trans people (with an extra special hatred towards trans women specifically). This is her trying just that by personally funding transphobic hate groups with millions to push around laws in the UK. It is not hyperbolic to call her a dangerous, genocidal maniac.

It's not about cancelling a problematic writer. It's about literally trying to save lives by denying her as much money and power as possible.

[liberate-women-now]

"Eradicate all trans people" and its just keeping men out of women's spaces. This is just a great example of bullshitting; you are intentionally being dishonest by not just exaggerating what she does, but by straight up LYING. A man being denied into women's spaces is not going to "eradicate" him.

[featherweightwing]

If they want to talk about “saving lives”, female only spaces save lives. Giving women places away from men saves lives.

But we know they don’t care, because we know they don’t value women’s lives.

[horsebacteria]

people say it "reduces women to biology" by defining a woman as an adult human female. but that argument only works if you already think being female is a something reductive.

it's not. there's nothing reductive or shameful about having a uterus, ovaries, a vagina. it's just a body.

saying "woman means adult human female" isn't reducing anyone. it's not an insult.

the people getting mad about that definition are the ones adding the shame to it. we're not the ones treating "female" like a slur.

[orwellfanclub]

Person 1: “I am a blonde!”

Person 2: “But your hair is brown. A blonde is someone with blonde hair, not brown!”

Person 1: “Oh wow, so we’re just reducing people to their hair colors now?!??”

[shifgrethors]

wikipedia:

-XYZ is Catholic

-XYZ is bisexual.

-XYZ is Muslim.

also wikipedia:

-XYZ is of Jewish descent.

-XYZ has Jewish parents.

-XYZ’s grandparents escaped Auschwitz and immigrated to America and became Chabad shlichim. XYZ was born at 770. Their parents are a rabbi and rebbetzin in a large Jewish community in Lakewood……….they’re of Jewish descent.

[hillsofspices]

i came across this one the other day. her given surname was cohen and she is descended from 23 generations of rabbis but who’s to say how she identifies really

but later on they clarify that she freed herself from being “ethnically charged” so it’s all good now

[the-lesbian-computer]

My professor met Judy Chicago at the Venice Biennale this year. Judy told her how important it is to be Jewish and proud especially in this world that we live in.

Judy would be so disappointed to read her own Wikipedia page.

[fromchaostocosmos]

"from a certain social identity" good G-d just fucking say what you mean.

[tvirusresearchlabs]

Ah, the "greater Israel" conspiracy. Otherwise known as the paranoid conviction that the Jews are itching to take over the very places many Jews had to flee to Israel from due to the level of severe, violent antisemitism present there.

[featherweightwing]

It’s hilarious watching these people be like “the Jews are trying to colonize the entire Middle East and make it all into a Jewish ethnostate!” My guy even if Israel wanted to do that do you understand there are literally not enough Jews on earth for that to be even remotely feasible? Like can you even do basic math?

(Also you gotta love how this is just “Jews will not replace us” but leftistly lmao)

[thejewellerybox]

Zendaya in a photoshoot for The Odyssey, in which she plays the goddess Athena.

Her earrings are a pair of Ziwiye gold medallion plaques, circa 1st millennium BC Iran. Mounted with diamonds in yellow gold by Glenn Spiro, 2020.

Photo: Barron London

These discs may be from The Ziwiye Hoard.

[homochadensistm]

Westoids stop glorifying ExoticTM looted artifacts as chique trinkets challenge (impossible)

[homochadensistm]

why is it bad zendaya wore those earrings? they're really cool

Incentivizing looting and theft by globally showing looters and thieves there's a market for their crimes is not cool

[featherweightwing]

You know when it comes to Graham Platner I’m glad that a lot of women on the left are finally waking up to how blatantly misogynistic a lot of leftist men truly are. They’re seeing the way these men are talking about Platner’s accuser: calling her a liar, calling her a “Zionist plant”, saying that she was asking for it, and a lot of women are rightfully horrified and fed up.

But I also think a lot of these women need to ask themselves a simple question: why were you ok with them doing this to Israeli women? When Hasan Piker said that he “didn’t care” if women were raped on Oct 7th, when they called Israeli women who came forward about their assaults liars, when they mocked the suffering of the hostages and said that Hamas “treated them well”, when they said they deserved it, when they joked that they were “too ugly to be raped”, where was your outrage over that behavior then? Why were you silent when it was Israeli women, and why did you think it would stop there?

What starts with Jews never ends with Jews.

[makiruz]

Very clever, use the War Criminal to try to whitewash Israel.

Unfortunately it won't work because Platner's crimes are real

[featherweightwing]

Thanks for proving the point, dumbass

[makiruz]

I'm a woman and the October 7th rapes didn't happen; the only evidence comes from MEN who claim to have witnessed it

[featherweightwing]

Wrong. Here is a DIRECT testimony from a woman who was sexually abused on October 7th.

But of course you don’t care, because she a Je– oops, I mean “zionist”

[makiruz]

Ah yes, ONE (1) claim, definitely proves there was a deliberate mass rape campaign on the day, even though if you try to look for a list of victims of rape on Oct 7 there's no list

And this isn't even from October 7th

Now, you are providing a better source than the average zionist, but I'm still using this Electronic Intifada video:

[featherweightwing]

Yeah just keep moving those goalposts (doesn’t surprise me you’re someone who takes the Electronic Empanada seriously lmao)

And by the way… do you think Arabic is an indigenous language to the Levant? Because it’s not. It arrived there from colonization, just like how it arrived in Egypt, in Morocco, in basically anywhere outside of… the ARABIAN peninsula. Like do you think the ancient Canaanites or ancient Egyptians spoke Arabic???

And imagine THAT being your response to a girl saying she was SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, to start cracking jokes about her last name. “Pro Palis” are fucking ghouls and I’m so glad I started seeing this shitass “movement” for what it is

[makiruz]

That was a side note, you don't have to start a discussion about indigineity

Anyway, the reality is that there's a very decent chance she's lying; I'm all for believing victims, but Israel has been proven to have lied about October 7th, and rapes on October 7th specifically.

There's literally no victims of rape of Oct 7th; I mean, there's no names, no photos, no evidence, just "it's happened, I swear!" from people who told incredibly outlandish stories later proven to bee false. If it'd actually happened we'd known who they were, Israel would never let us forget.

So, no I'm not gonna believe some fucking Mexican who was in an occupied territory for some cursed reason (No disrespect meant to Mexico, btw, I lived there during my formative years and I have a lot of love for this country)

Anyway, here's another report for EI from Dic 2023, that quickly we knew this was nonsense. And it even makes fun of you!

[featherweightwing]

“I’m all for believing victims, BUT–“

Yeah that’s all I needed to hear from you.

Me Too Unless You’re a Jew

[h4ganah]

if you're so Indigenous to Palestine how do you feel about Sámi people bitch

?????

I support their right to live on their traditional lands and for the state not to open new mines on them...?

Go bother someone else lmao

[h4ganah]

Why you would bother me about the Sámi is a fucking mystery, I literally wrote one of my law school term papers on the relationship between the state mining company and Gabna same-village.

Like, Sweden decided to move an entire city to Sámi traditional reindeer herding areas after SBAB mined underneath the city to the degree that the entire city was going to collapse into the mine. (The city of Kiruna was already on Sámi lands to begin with). That's how awful Sweden is towards the Sámi people.

The Sámi are supposed to have constitutional minority rights as an indigenous people, but the Swedish state consistently shits on those rights without consequence, and no one on the Swedish left cares even a little bit.

And when SBAB (the state mining company) recently found rare earth minerals in the area and wanted to open up a new mine, they announed their plans to open a new mine on lands that would make reindeer herding impossible for this one sameby, Gabna sameby - and they didn't even tell them in advance.

The Sámi people's right to practice reindeer herding and husbandry on their traditional land is legally protected - and that doesn't seem to matter in the slightest.

SBAB has had beef with Gabna village specifically for over a 100 years, and now they're finally in a position to make traditional living for them impossible - and no one in Sweden gives a single fuck.

Sweden gets penalised in the European Court of Human Rights for how we treat the Sámi so often it's like how often Israel gets penalised by the UN - the only difference is that in the case of the Sámi it's actually deserved.

So don't you fucking dare use the Sámi people as a stick to beat Jews with, when I know you couldn't give less of a fuck about them and their problems.

[featherweightwing]

You know when it comes to Graham Platner I’m glad that a lot of women on the left are finally waking up to how blatantly misogynistic a lot of leftist men truly are. They’re seeing the way these men are talking about Platner’s accuser: calling her a liar, calling her a “Zionist plant”, saying that she was asking for it, and a lot of women are rightfully horrified and fed up.

But I also think a lot of these women need to ask themselves a simple question: why were you ok with them doing this to Israeli women? When Hasan Piker said that he “didn’t care” if women were raped on Oct 7th, when they called Israeli women who came forward about their assaults liars, when they mocked the suffering of the hostages and said that Hamas “treated them well”, when they said they deserved it, when they joked that they were “too ugly to be raped”, where was your outrage over that behavior then? Why were you silent when it was Israeli women, and why did you think it would stop there?

What starts with Jews never ends with Jews.

[makiruz]

Very clever, use the War Criminal to try to whitewash Israel.

Unfortunately it won't work because Platner's crimes are real

[featherweightwing]

Thanks for proving the point, dumbass

[makiruz]

I'm a woman and the October 7th rapes didn't happen; the only evidence comes from MEN who claim to have witnessed it

[featherweightwing]

Wrong. Here is a DIRECT testimony from a woman who was sexually abused on October 7th.

But of course you don’t care, because she a Je– oops, I mean “zionist”

[makiruz]

Ah yes, ONE (1) claim, definitely proves there was a deliberate mass rape campaign on the day, even though if you try to look for a list of victims of rape on Oct 7 there's no list

And this isn't even from October 7th

Now, you are providing a better source than the average zionist, but I'm still using this Electronic Intifada video:

[featherweightwing]

Yeah just keep moving those goalposts (doesn’t surprise me you’re someone who takes the Electronic Empanada seriously lmao)

And by the way… do you think Arabic is an indigenous language to the Levant? Because it’s not. It arrived there from colonization, just like how it arrived in Egypt, in Morocco, in basically anywhere outside of… the ARABIAN peninsula. Like do you think the ancient Canaanites or ancient Egyptians spoke Arabic???

And imagine THAT being your response to a girl saying she was SEXUALLY ASSAULTED, to start cracking jokes about her last name. “Pro Palis” are fucking ghouls and I’m so glad I started seeing this shitass “movement” for what it is