• Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    1 year ago

    I’m conflicted. I completely agree with you and all of your points, and I don’t want to set a precedent like this.

    But she did vote and advocate for the party that wants to keep misgendering her too…

    Edit: I know folks, I agree with you all, we shouldn’t encourage this. The schadenfreude is sweet, but Ultimately it’s a bad thing. We should treat even the people who are against us with the respect we ask for

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      I look at it this way: we reveal ourselves by how we treat our helpless opponents.

      Perfectly normal to have the emotional response of ‘serves her right.’ The better person has to stop, set the emotion aside, and ask whether the treatment fits their moral framework. If you can’t articulate why a transgendered friend, convicted of some crime, should be cross-housed, then this woman probably shouldn’t be, either.

      Feeling conflicted is good - it’s your rational brain fighting with your emotional brain and winning.

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        We (LGBTQ) cant keep tolerating intolerance, or else we are going to end up without rights.

        “We have to be the better person”, “We reveal ourselves by how we treat our helpless opponents”, etc… until we end up shot dead like that woman that put up the rainbow flag.

        Fuck that.