speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.
This line of argument is the same one that you see with conservatives who point to the increase in divorce rates as proof that making divorce safer is endangering marriage, while ignoring the massive drops in domestic abuse, murder, and suicide.
It’s a shot argument with them, and it’s a shot argument here.
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“They’re afraid of losing friends, being ridiculed in class, getting worse grades and are even afraid of being assaulted and physically hurt.”
good
no, not good. because if we hate them as much as Trump and his supporters hate certain groups, we are no better than they are.
yeah I am
“if you hate these bigots you’re just as bigoted as they are”
This “we’re no better than them” mentality makes the critical mistake that hate itself is the problem.
Hate is not the problem. At all. Hate can be constructive. Hate can be defensive and come from righteous outrage.
The problem is irrational hate towards innocent people.
Hating a racist is COMPLETELY fucking different from hating a race. A whole race didn’t do anything wrong. A racist did. Hating the racist is 100% proportionate, justifiable retaliation.
Fucking. Mic. Drop.
The reason that hate groups like the Klan have been driven so near to extinction is because of this exact thing. It became unfashionable to be publicly racist, and the backlash against those kinds of groups became unbearable for them. It drove them out of the limelight and into the very fringes of society.
This postmodern “hating the hate makes you just as bad” bullshit is what’s allowing them to re-prosper.
Fuck that.
Expose them. Make them lose their friends. Ridicule them in classes. If you can get away with it, beat their asses. Show them what it means that we will not go back to that way of life again. It’s time for the racists to be the ones who live in fear.
Hating bigotry does not a bigot make.
Imma just leave this here
The paradox of tolerance is that you cannot ever tolerate intolerance of any name or nature or tolerance itself will be snuffed out.
Punch your local Nazi. Make them bleed.
People of color, Jewish people, queer and trans people, immigrants, and a whole bunch of people can never truly exercise the full extent of their freedom of speech so long as Nazis are exercising their freedom of speech. You literally cannot let everyone have unlimited freedom when a big group of people wants to use their freedom to, at best, keep other groups of people from being free, and at worst wants to keep other groups of people from being alive. It is 100% impossible to accommodate the viewpoints of every single person at the same time.
So you actually have to choose whose rights you want to preserve. There is nothing to be gained by defending facists’ right to free speech, as doing that inherently attacks the free speech of a bunch of other people. You have to choose, you can’t be wishy washy about this. Not making a choice just means choosing the status quo, and the status quo sucks. Actively fight facists.
They hate us for what we are.
We hate them for what they have done.
Those are not the same and you should be suspicious as fuck of anyone who treats them as though they are.
So in a move that shouldn’t surprise anybody, now that the Democrats have the House they’ve started making noise about cooperating with Trump’s regime and “finding common ground,” as if our problem was “divisiveness” rather than the fact that our government is run by an ultranationalist reality tv star and his cronies. So, to add a little world-historical perspective, here’s an ominous warning:
When Adolph Hitler campaigned for executive power in Weimar Germany, he went up against von Hindenburg, the moderate incumbent heavily favored to win. Hindenburg, however, was a wet blanket with a spine made of jello, and so Thallman, an independent candidate from the KDP, tried to warn Germany’s voters that “a vote for Hindenburg is a vote for Hitler.”
Hindenburg won, of course. And, as Thallman predicted, so too did Hitler win.
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this is a hell of a ride isnt it? this is a horror show
I think the scariest thing is I legit can’t tell if this is satire or an actual news article.
I googled, it was a legit actual thing. It’s on multiple real news sites.
This is fucked. EVERYONE should get the flu shot. I physically cannot because i’m allergic to fucking something in the shot and my arm swells up like a balloon and i almost fucking died last time, BUT EVERYONE ELSE SHOULD GET THE FUCKING SHOT! My mom and brother got the shot, guess what….
NO FUCKING FLU!
She did get it a bit before she got the shot though. then she got over it and got the shot. BUT AFTERWORDS NO FLU.
