Doing something openly and without shame contributes to its normalization and normalizing something is an important step to decriminalizing it. Keeping it in the shadows confirms the statist narrative that there's something shameful about it
People are criticizing Eli Erlick for openly distributing hormones and puberty blockers to minors, even if they support what she does, because you're supposed to keep that kind of thing a secret. On the contrary: openly breaking bad laws in order to help other people is one of the best ways to force the state onto the defensive and it constitutes a form of propaganda. Marijuana legalization activists proudly smoke in public, abortion rights activists in places where it's criminalized will proudly boast of distributing misoprostol. Kill the cop inside your head who says you should keep something secret when you're not doing anything wrong
In the past, sometimes Jude has been a little too liberal for me but he's really really right on here, really recommendable
"Chaya and Taylor, the “ally” and the “enemy,” represented two sides of the same baseline contempt for trans people. Both of them were equally determined to make sure that trans people did not become the focus of this story. Neither of them believed that trans people ought to be allowed to speak for themselves. Taylor Lorenz is not Chaya Raichik’s adversary. She is her collaborator, in a very successful joint project. Both of them set out to make bank and boost their brands on the back of a dead fucking kid."
If you do an allegedly hard hitting interview of a hate figure and the hate figure then uses clips from the interview to promote herself then maybe you fucked up @taylorlorenz
People are making fun of this but I've also seen politicians keep tabs on who is cancelled on Twitter in order to figure out who makes a convenient scapegoat for fuckups that are their fault
@hakan_geijer like it will be a terrible precedent for leakers if this extradition goes through! I totally agree! I also feel uncomfortable going to protests around the issue because the organizers expect me to think an antisemitic rapist is a saint!
@hakan_geijer yeah, there's a certain "navalny syndrome" here where I do think his persecution is objectively terrible but also we don't have to pretend he's a good person
More seriously, though, most people hate on him without realizing what his actual method was, which was less the blatant Holocaust denial of the worst revisionists, and more chipping away at the documentation of atrocities, denying Hitler knew of many of the things that happened under his command, etc. He has more in common with people like Michael Parenti and Max Blumenthal than many on the left would like to admit
“The writer of the story was great and shaped it well. But I like how the article was called ‘uncensored,’ and then the whole cover was censored because [of] the existence of a female body thrusting any sort of sexuality at you that’s not designed for or desired by exclusively cis, straight males. People aren’t super comfy with that,” Kristen said at a press conference for her latest movie, Love Lies Bleeding, on Sunday at the Berlin Film Festival. Kristen Stewart Responds To Controversy Over “Gayest F–ing Thing” For Rolling Stone Cover | Bored Panda
@ryanhoulihan I do know of gay guys who enjoy dating trans girls even if it's not ~politically correct~ but also yeah this is why I went from "bisexual" to "homosexual" when I transitioned sorry not doing straight dudes
Palestinian men and boys between the ages of 12 and 70 are stripped, cuffed, blindfolded and then loaded onto the backs of trucks to be taken for interrogation. Some have numbers written on their arms. Hundreds detained in Gaza have been transported to the desert prison of Ketziot, near the border with Egypt. Others have probably been taken to nearby military bases. Some men who were taken prisoner in Beit Lahiya were stripped and transported to fenced-off camps where for days they were tied up, beaten and tortured. Others have disappeared. The IDF has subsequently said that between 85 and 90 per cent of these detainees were civilians. Israeli forces have repeatedly raided UN schools and detained any men found inside. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights documented an incident on 19 December when the Israeli army surrounded and then entered a building in the Remal neighbourhood of Gaza City. ‘The IDF allegedly separated the men from the women and children, and then shot and killed at least eleven of the men, mostly aged in their late twenties and early thirties, in front of their family members.’