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[–] [email protected] 133 points 1 month ago (15 children)

I'm glad she gets to leave. Obviously this is a good thing for her safety. It upsets me though, because she would have been one of the best individuals to stand up and help. Some of us don't have the ability to run. If we don't stand together, we fall separately.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Why does she have to be the one to bravely stand up when 15 million people, Democrats, progressives, independents, didn't even bother to stand up next to her putting her in this situation?

Nah, the American people showed her what's kind of allies they would be and she's doesn't owe the moderates MLK wrote about to stand up with a target in her back when they won't have her back to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I didn't say she had to. I said she would have been one of the best individuals to do so. She has the unique position to push back at the transphobic rhetoric that is being spewed by those in power. One of which is her bio parent. She of all the fellow trans persons could have been a great face for a movement.

By your argument I should just go ahead and let them drag me in the street and shoot me in the head because, and I quote, "15 million people, Democrats, progressives, independents, didn't even bother to stand up..."

Those that can stand up to tyranny but choose not to, are burdened to shoulder the blame of the tyranny.

[–] Shiggles 4 points 1 month ago

No, by his argument you, too, should seek safety in a country not filled with morons. Are we now blaming the Germans and Jews that fled the Nazis?

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