#false equivalences

[kouhai-deactivated]

It will never not be a massive mindfuck to me how humanity has always made it entirely 1,000% ok to exclude Black People in any and everything that is a human concept — but it’s somehow “more racist” or “aggressively gatekept” for Black People to preserve & protect ourselves, our own spaces and representation. 🫠

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Matt Davies

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Trump: "But, uh, the transgender thing is an incredible thing. Think of it. Your kid goes to school and comes home a few days later with an operation. The school decides what's going to happen with your child and you, many of these childs [sic ] fifteen years later say 'what the hell happened who did this to me?'"

(Edit: this was at the Moms For Liberty Conference, during an interview with MFL Co-founder Tiffany Justice, August 30, 2024)

Just Trump claiming that kids routinely come home from school with gender reassignment surgery.

As if there was ever a single case anywhere that this actually happened.

Meanwhile, the Press is deeply concerned about that time 17-year-old high school student Kamala Harris worked at a McDonalds one summer and adult Kamala Harris, the District Attorney, Attorney General of California, The United States Senator, and the Vice President of the United States, for some reason didn't include it on her resume.

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You think Trump's photo op stunt in Arlington is bad?

Don't show up this November, let him back into office, and he'll be drilling for oil in the middle of our national cemeteries. Or turning them into golf courses and go-cart tracks for profit ala Ron DeSantis.

If by now you haven't figured out Trump is a classless buffoon who will do the absolute worst in every situation, and that his running mate is a smokey-eyed dollar store fascist with zero integrity, I don't know what to tell you.

[Jim Wright]

[tomorrowusa]

False equivalences are coming.

Brace yourself for the 2019/2020 version of “But her emails!”

Remember the House Benghazi hearings? Republicans tried to blame Hillary for a terrorist attack in Libya in 2012. (Never mind that Republicans failed to take responsibility for 9/11 which occurred on their watch -- but that’s for another time.)

Anyway, in 2015 Hillary spent so much time defending herself in front of a gang of hostile Republicans that the length of her testimony was longer than the entire lifespans of over a thousand TV series.

The 1,657 TV shows that spent less time on the air than the Hillary Clinton Benghazi hearing

Crybaby Trump and his Congressional asslicking sycophants complain that he shouldn’t have to explain his attempts to outsource GOP oppo to Ukraine the way he got Russia to help him in 2016. Poor Donald. Sad! 😢

[stopmakingliberalslookbad]

False Equivalency: The left is just as bad as Trump, or even worse. They are the same. Not False Equivalency: I have many issues with some left leaning politics and politicians that make me hesitate before throwing my full support behind them. People need to understand this and not shoot down any and all criticism of the left as being pro Trump.

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[new-name-tbd]

I am so tired of the false equivalences in conversations surrounding whitewashing/racism in media in fandom spaces.  

[oudeteron]

Seriously how fucking dare you mock lesbians or gay men for being het repulsed when people like you will coddle the FUCK out of sex repulsed aces who desperately demand that LGBT people not KISS in front of them in GAY CLUBS? It's not like lesbians could be victims of homophobic rape or anything and not want to engage constantly with depictions of het relationships that remind them of abuse, is it? Oh wait of course none of you lot give a flying fuck about abuse victims if they're "LGs"!!

The amount of conflation going on here is ridiculous.

I don’t “mock lesbians and gay men”. If there’s anyone I’ve mocked, it’s exclusionists. And quite frankly, a tongue-in-cheek post or two is nothing compared to the abuse I’ve experienced on this site, and I know people who have received worse. Not all gay men and lesbians are exclusionists and it’s you who’s conflating the two, not me.

What else?

I pretty much never post about sex repulsion, because I confess I don’t really understand it. I’m in a long-term relationship where we both enjoy sex and identify as sex-positive, so I don’t think sex repulsion is my conversation to have. All I do is let it be and not act like an ass to people who I know are sex repulsed. If that’s coddling them? Fine, I’ll “coddle the fuck out of them” then.

I’ve literally never once denied any oppression that happens to LG people, including the cis ones. Like, I dare you to find it if you’re that invested in wasting your time sending hate anons. I only respond to when they deny the oppression that happens to other, less represented parts of the LGBTQ+ umbrella and leave it at that.

Finally, it’s a big leap to assume that just because I support ace inclusion, I would also support anyone demanding that people stop kissing in gay clubs. A big fucking leap. Which is all you exclusionists do, constantly put words in people’s mouths to make them look like monsters for not conceding to your “once community, one agenda for everyone determined by cis LG folks” policy.

Now was this comment worth it?

[catiebat]

Explaining the different ages of Russian poetry/literature to Mikhail, he is comparing it to different ages of comics/did not realize other literary traditions had "golden/silver ages" etc, and wants to know who the Jack Kirby of Russian lit is, and omg. I can't stop thinking about this! Alexander Blok, perhaps?

[oudeteron]

Like, I don't want to even touch on the rest because it's such a trainwreck, but the only way "your post gave me autism" even works as a joke about how terrible you think a post is by positioning autism as a horrible thing, that the OP did to you. Joking "X gave me autism" about something because it made you happy flap or gave you a new special interest, positioning it as a GOOD thing, that'd be reclamatory. That's taking a tool used to harm us, turning it around, and making it ours. (Ctd)

(2/2)Using it as an insult is still using it as an insult, even if you’re autistic and among other autistics. Just because you and your circle of friends don’t feel hurt by it doesn’t mean it’s not hurtful. (Would you tolerate someone using r****d and excusing it with ‘I’m DD and it doesn’t bother ME’?) At best, to make the joke you’d have to be unaware of how deep it can cut. At worst, you’re treating us as acceptable collateral damage and don’t care who gets hurt so long as it’s not you. 

This!

I honestly don’tknow how to deal with this cognitive dissonance of “queer is alwaysbad, but literally reposting ableist memes out of context is instantreclaiming”. It makes no sense and has no sound theory behind it.