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This is why I describe myself as "Left-Center", I fucking hate tankies, and honestly I'm getting tired of... How to describe this without sounding like a dick?
I'm getting tired of people trying to be offended on behalf of groups who they feel should be offended by something, I'm getting tired of people who want to LARP that they're making the world a better more tolerant place when really they're just ruining media with pointless censorship.
Many of both groups are on the Left.
However I am fully lucid of the fact that pretty much every problem in my life is because Far Right Boomers hold way too much power, so if it ultimately comes down to Left or Right, (which it has, have you seen the world situation lately?) then it's the Left for me.
Plus I don't want to be mistaken for one of those bad faith "Bar Nazi" types. You know the kind: "Personally, I think the nation is too divided, lots of bad people on both sides... Now let me exclusively criticize the Left while dropping some blatant dogwhistles."
That's an important part of being inclusive, though. If you're in a space that, for example, tolerates racist jokes, then there are going to be people who don't feel welcome there. Confronting the person making the jokes is going to be uncomfortable, but by not confronting it, you're prioritizing your comfort over others'.
I'm a Euro-American male, but I'm just repeating what people of color have been saying for years. Read what African-Americans write about race. How To Be An Anti-Racist wasn't written by a white SJW. It was written by Ibram X Kendi, an actual African-American man. Read what people from these groups have written about their own experiences.
True, but what I'm talking about the instances where someone not from a group has arbitrarily decided is offensive to a group they don't belong to, when the group doesn't necessarily agree.
For example, we've had cases of white liberals getting offended at fictional characters wearing sombreros (Such as is the case with Mario Odyessy), whereas actual Hispanic groups saw that as being more endearing and inclusive... and well the whole "Latinx" debacle...
I'm white, but I'm also trans, so I definitely see a little bit of these myself resulting in dumbasses spouting "Cis is a slur!" (No, no it is not!)
The problem with this line of thinking is that the groups in question aren't monoliths. Latinx wasn't a term made by white people, it was made by Latinx/Latino non-binary people and then adopted more broadly because they advocated for it.
Some other people of the affected group thinking it's silly doesn't mean the term or sensitivity is just made up white savior SJWism. The are plenty of women who think a woman's place is in the kitchen and following their husband's lead, but that doesn't mean feminism is junk. People have a tendency to latch on to some segment of the population that thinks the SJW term is silly not because their number one priority is respecting the population as a whole, but because it gives them a pass to not change their habits.
They're trying to be allies, and sometimes they get it wrong, but I think that's better than the alternative (which is simply staying silent in all cases).
In the case of "Latinx", it seems like it was dreamed up by somebody who didn't know anything about Spanish. Just put an X on it, now it's inclusive! The problem is you can't conjugate a noun with a fucking X on the end. The preferred term is now "Latine", which has a gender-neutral ending that fits with the rest of the language and is being promoted by Latin(e!) civil rights groups.
Indeed, it still gets annoying though.
Sometimes uneducated or willfully ignorant allies can give one the feeling of "At this point I'm begging you to just call me a slur instead."
That said you're absolutely right, we should encourage people for trying to learn and help them to get it right. Instead of screaming at them over a faux pas they stepped in hard.
Still I will never get over the time a doctor I had bizarrely assumed that because I was trans, that I somehow knew Caitlyn Jenner personally and could "invite her to speak at the practice." She did not remain my doctor long between this and "We are okay with you being trans but we aren't sure it would be appropiate to prescribe you estradial even though you've been taking it for years with another doctor in another town.. even though we specifically told you you could get transgender care here without going out of town if you made us your primary"
You can see why switching was a high priority
(For the record this was back when public acknowledgement of transpeople was just starting to get going and before it was commonly accepted that Jenner is a piece of shit. Thankfully more and more doctors in the area do endocrinology for trans patients who have already bene on it for sometime.. don't know if as many will start you off though but it is what it is)
*sombreros
Oh thank you, I hadn't even noticed I mispelled the word.
Replace "tankies" with "woke" and this comment just becomes exactly the same comment a far right chud would say.
If you're concerned about being "mistake" for a bar nazi then perhaps you should not say things a bar nazi would say?
Criticizing other leftists doesn't make you a "bar nazi"
Yes it does, shut the fuck up and open your eyes
For fuck's sake open your fucking eyes
As long as someone writes the word tankies in a comment you morons will agree with it even if the writer is practically goosestepping.
Honestly, who cares as long as he's actively trying to help the targets of Nazis protect themselves from Nazis? Right now, the left needs all the help they can get, and according to real human rights organizations that study genocide -- and the U.S. is at a hard stage 7 right now -- moderates are the only ones that can stop the aggressors.
So let's stop worrying about all that dumb shit and get rid of the Nazis, then we can fight over dumb petty political shit.
He's not helping the targets of nazis by complaining about people being allies or "censorship", which is just code for not being able to say transphobic and racist bollocks.
How is it so difficult for you to realise that "on behalf of groups" is just another way of saying "allies". If I rephrase this using the language of the lgbt community instead of the carefully chosen language used to mask its intention it's literally just saying "I don't think people should be allies, I'm tired of it."
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