I am with you for a lot of it. But I don’t know if I would call someone a tankie when e.g. (and I had that experience recently here) a person insist that a man who expresses that he wants to feel like a man, is somehow toxic but trans men aren’t toxic when they do it. The reason is obviously sexist (and I would argue, transphobic) stereotypes and the resulting disinterest in the individual. But does that make them a tankie? Idk.
I am also struggling with the statement that people “were” conservatives. I mean they are, but were they? Can’t people change there? But I am being nitpicky here.
something that I want to say, because apparently I care, of my friends who used to be “gamers”, I would say most, if not all (some of them are politically disinterested), are very vocally progressive. And their actions align with it. So, I want to insist that I didn’t identify with conservatives but with a group of people who contained some conservatives. I don’t know why I care so much about this.
Mhm I see your point.
I am with you for a lot of it. But I don’t know if I would call someone a tankie when e.g. (and I had that experience recently here) a person insist that a man who expresses that he wants to feel like a man, is somehow toxic but trans men aren’t toxic when they do it. The reason is obviously sexist (and I would argue, transphobic) stereotypes and the resulting disinterest in the individual. But does that make them a tankie? Idk.
I am also struggling with the statement that people “were” conservatives. I mean they are, but were they? Can’t people change there? But I am being nitpicky here.
something that I want to say, because apparently I care, of my friends who used to be “gamers”, I would say most, if not all (some of them are politically disinterested), are very vocally progressive. And their actions align with it. So, I want to insist that I didn’t identify with conservatives but with a group of people who contained some conservatives. I don’t know why I care so much about this.