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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    “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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    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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    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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          Are you implying white people cannot be gay, lesbian, trans, or a woman?

          No, but the “white people” we are talking about would consider a white gay person, a gay person, and a white woman, is a woman.

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      There are a lot of people who have benefited from the battles won by progressives yet they vote for conservatives or even fascists. Because they don’t like that progressives continue the battle and fight for other people that aren’t like them.

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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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    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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          I refuse to believe it’s not a psyop by some robot pretending to be a person. I don’t want to exist in the world where it’s not a psyop, and you can’t make me.

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    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.

    Didn’t make it very far into the article; I had to stop reading right there. I can’t handle this much ignorance and bigotry. What a fucking clown. 🤡

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      Ask her to describe what any of those mean, and she’ll just mumble a bunch of bullshit about how they’re performing surgeries in school, how DEI is just about hiring black people, and Critical Race Theory is about NASCAR or something.

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      I had to stop here:

      “This is a dangerous game right-wing culture warriors are playing. If Obergefell falls, it won’t just impact same-sex couples. It will set a precedent that fundamental rights can be granted and taken away by the shifting winds of political power. This should concern every American, regardless of their stance on same-sex marriage.”

      Fucking bozo bash

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        We should all know they never stop with “those people” and always pick the next group to attack.

        The fact that so many are willing to throw anyone under the bus for a few political points only proves they aren’t capable of seeing the very clear pattern that just keeps repeating.

        It’s not like we haven’t all heard some variation of Martin Niemöller’s “First They Came” by now but people still keep thinking that if they’re just “one of the good ones” they’ll be left alone.

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      You weren’t missing much by stopping there. I wish I had. She still doesn’t realise that she’s been a useful idiot to them all along.

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    But I will not stand by while LGBT rights are legislated away.

    coming right after

    I still believe that biological males shouldn’t compete in women’s sports or be housed in women’s prisons.

    might sound silly, but they’re being truthful. They are not standing by while T rights are legislated away, they actively support it.

    Perchance this person would prefer it being LGB instead

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      “Drop the T” was always going to end up in everyone experiencing homophobia more viscerally.

      might need a new sub for “selfAwareWolves” for a post like this.

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      Anyone who is LGB without the T can suck my LGBTQ+ butthole.

      You’re not an ally. You’re just an asshole.

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      I’ve been settled in monogamy for ages now, so I don’t know if it’s still the case, but I distinctly remember the vibe in the late '90s and early '00s being LG vs BT. Like the “true gays” didn’t want us making them look weird in front of the straights. Resulted in stuff like Gold Star Lesbians.

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        It hasn’t gone away. I’m a cis male, pansexual, married to a Trans enby who’s also pan. We’re poly with relationships outside of our own marriage.

        I assure you that LG vs BT still exists. I’ve had people accuse me of not being honest with my partner (They know both my gfs, and I know both their gf and bf), or that I’m not actually pan because I’m only with “girls” (My partner is AFAB but enby (They/Them, working on getting top surgery), and my gfs are a cis woman and a trans woman (let that part sink in)).

        So because we don’t fit the standard traditional relationship roles, we’re somehow “doing it wrong”.

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    “I’m conservative so I can force everyone else to live by my rules. How dare those other conservatives try to do the same thing to me!”

    The stupidity of these people is fucking painful.