I see your ass, ‘ally’.

[CW: all the isms] See also: liberals doing homophobia, , racism, body shaming, ableism etc if the target is a conservative. “Teehee Putin kissing Trump photoshops are funny!”, “Rednecks are dumb!”, “Mitch McConnell is ugly!” “Dumb black/trans/woman siding with conservatives deserves leopards eating their face!”

Remember, conservatives are bad because they’re dangerous to human well being, not because they’re gay, a woman or ugly.

    • wtypstanaccount04 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I can’t stand that type of thing. I will say that it’s shockingly common though. My guess is that homophobic gays are disgusted at themselves and that fuels the hatred.

  • Retrosound [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It is politics of The Other. To the conservatives, the ingroup is Americans and the outgroup is non-Americans. To the liberals, their ingroup is the conservatives’ outgroups and their outgroup are the conservatives. This is why you will see things like libs cheerfully go into dangerous locales to prove everything is OK. These are their ingroups! And then they get beaten, stabbed or run over and can’t understand what happened. To the people that live there, all Americans are definitely The Other to them, and thus are fair game.

    I think everyone knows how The Other gets treated: you can do anything to them. They’re not people, so they are outside the law. That’s where the word “outlaw” came from, once you were declared an outlaw it was no longer a crime to do things like rob you or kill you. With all the things Trump can be criticized for (correctly), you see people calling him a piece of shit because he’s fat. Or Clarence Thomas or Candace Owens being called a house Ns. I mean, that’s the best you’ve got? You can’t pick up any of the problems they are clearly guilty of? No, it has to be one of these.

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The 146th type of liberalism: Saying you support the #MeToo movement and victims of sexual abuse and harassment coming forward, but then drop that support as soon as it’s politically inconvenient.

    • Retrosound [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lib take:

      One person is accused of rape, which the other person denies - which means either one person is a rapist or the other is making up a claim bout rape in the middle of a presidential campaign and by extension derailing democracy in America and imperiling the lives of millions.

      That means either Joe Biden is a rapist on the loose or Tara Reade is essentially a terrorist. Compassion for victims does not apply here - Tara Reade needs to provide detailed accounts of everything she’s done for the last 25 years and find some way of verifying this - or she needs to acknowledge she’s a liar and face the consequences. Joe Biden needs to provide double blind presentation of timelines and like you say, lets see where the chips fall. And if Tara Reade is lying, she needs to go to jail for decades.

      Compassion for rape victims is one thing. Taking allegations seriously is one thing. We have a democracy under threat from a fascist president. Tara Reade is an adult and she needs to be treated like one AND she needs to act like one. Prove your claim Tara. The burden is on her.