• Djehngo@lemmy.world
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      The post asserts that the women pictured are so unattractive that it has turned their republican husband’s gay.

      The implication being that women are to be valued primarily by their physical appearance and a man is to be judged by the appearance of his wife.

      Lemmy lets this slide because they are republicans and therefore acceptable targets, but they are bad people not because they are unattractive or they married someone unattractive/low-status, or because they use Grindr, they are bad people because they voted for an administration which has done enormous harm to minorities, LGBTQ folks and anyone who drowned indirectly on USAID.

      That’s not even getting into the problems with the conversation therapy-esque idea of being able to intentionally change an adults sexuality

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        and here I thought it was because they were insufferable and you’re telling me it’s because they’re ugly? sounds misogynistic to me.

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          Listen never underestimate the white womans ability to be a victim even when she stood side by side running a plantation she was just a zero powers minority just the slaves.

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            We are justifiably angry at Republicans like this because they are enthusiastically a part of the boot that we are being crushed beneath. However, there is a distinction between wanting to be free of the boot, and wanting to be the boot.

            It feels cathartic to be mean to people like this, and let’s be real, this level of unkindness is but a fraction of the cruelty they inflict upon us. However, this path does not lead to justice. I don’t want to be like them — not even a little bit.

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                What an absurd statement. In no world am I standing by Trump. I’m a queer cripple who literally only has a place to live right now due to the solidarity and support of other oppressed people.

                I don’t want to be the boot because the people I love and I have already been bled so much by the ruling class and no amount of revenge will be able to give me the life I could’ve led if not for the oppression I have faced.

                The problem with the system is the systematic oppression, not that the wrong people are being oppressed.

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              sounds like mitläufer to me.

              you are who you associate yourself with. if you associate with pedophiles and rapists, you will be mistaken to be a pedophile and rapist.

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                Being opposed to misogyny (even when it’s directed at awful people) does not make me a compatriot of theirs. The problem with the system is the oppression, not that the wrong people are being oppressed.

                I don’t know what justice would be appropriate for all the harm these women have done, but I know that bigotry such as gendered oppression is antithetical to justice (even when it’s directed at people who have used their privilege on other axes to oppress others).