When the “woke” mania swept the country in 2020, I took a step back and reevaluated where I stood and why I stood there. To my surprise, I found that I agreed with conservatives and libertarians on a number of issues. I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory. I argued against biological males competing in women’s sports and being housed in women’s prisons. I did so loudly and publicly, losing many friends along the way.

Today, some of those same attorneys I worked with are advocating for my right to marry my fiancée to be stripped away.

I fell for obvious right-wing propaganda and rationalized the hate with reason and logic. Now the hate machine is coming for me and that’s not fair!

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    So the tldr here is that a lesbian TERF has discovered that once the rights of others that they were fine with being trampled upon had been stripped away, the people they chose to side with suddenly turned on them.

    Something something frog and scorpion in a river…

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    “I found that while I supported my own rights as a sexual minority, I did not support the rights of other minorities whom I was not apart of”

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      That’s what it is to think like a conservative:

      “I found that while I supported my own rights, I did not support the rights of others whom I was not a part of.”

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    An exert from this sites “about” page

    In the liberal West, a clear majority of people support LGBT rights. However, many are turned off by extreme rhetoric that supports authoritarian policy proposals. They are alienated by a vocal minority of radical activists who falsely claim to speak for the LGBT community. In this respect, QM stands up for that silent majority against extremists of all persuasions.

    In short: Terfs

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      I opposed childhood gender transitions, unlawful and divisive DEI mandates, and the excesses of Critical Race Theory.

      yeah

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        The DEI and CRT comments are especially telling. This is a person who allowed herself to believe comforting lies - to accept as fact that a societal scapegoat is the source of her woes. ESPECIALLY the comment about critical race theory, which as I understand was never taught in anything below college courses.

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    99% of American politics makes sense once you understand that MAGA = Narcissist.

    That’s how black/gay/whatever person ends up MAGA. Their narcissism is stronger than their cultural/racial/whatever identity.

    The choices they make, the way propaganda is able to work on them, the evil shit they can talk themselves into supporting? It’s all fueled by narcissism.

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      they also believe if they are well off enough, whites will seem them as equals, whites only see them as TOKENs at best. i saw some asian tubers that slowly became magaty over covid, albiet quite lazily. they think if they say the same talking points they get more views, add a little mysogyny too.

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        The fuck are you on about? Are you implying white people cannot be gay, lesbian, trans, or a woman?

        You seem to be under the impression that only white men can be racist or misogynist, but if you ever meet people from anywhere in the world, you’ll find that it’s the same everywhere.

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    Now the hate machine is coming for me and that’s not fair!

    “It was fair when the hate machine was coming for other people but it’s not fair when it’s coming for <falsetto>meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!</falsetto>”

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    And a vent about all of those who have “seen the light”, not this guy, this woman is a straight up continuing unrepentant moron, but others.

    These narcissistic morons wants all of us to simply forgive and welcome them back into the fold without judgment, feel sorry for them, and provide them the support they “need” because they fucked themselves over with their stupidity and selfishness.

    No, your actions had massive consequences for the rest of us, you don’t get judgment free forgiveness and unconditional support for your journey of getting your own head out of your ass.

    You want that, take a picture of your ballot and post it online to prove that you actually learned your god damn lesson and don’t vote stupid in the next and every election because your words are meaningless when your lack of intelligence to figure out the obvious.

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      Except don’t actually do that, because posting a picture of your ballot invalidates it.

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    If you think identifying with marginalized groups grants you knowledge, you’re going to be a traitor to those groups. Queerness exists in a significantly different cultural and social context from twenty (even ten) years ago, and many privileged queer people have never had to feel the full force of oppression that this system wields. I cannot emphasize how many white, middle-class queer traitors I have met who believe that being queer has granted them some sort of moral clarity despite their subscription to the maintenance of a system that oppresses them because it has afforded them toys and comfort.