Work Sucks, Especially When People Get Your Pronouns Wrong
When these types of attitudes and senses of entitlement are presented as "mainstream progressivism", it's not surprising why some people are driven into the welcoming arms of right-wing populists.
When someone refers to someone who wants to be referred to as they/them as she/her (but they clearly look like a woman) and that's viewed as "straight, cis men, carrying implicit power", or telling sob stories about how "At an office holiday party, people kept referring to me with “she/her” pronouns, and by the end of the game I was nearly in tears at what was supposed to be a relaxing, fun work outing. I told them I wanted to sit out because I was being misgendered"
Or the premise that if a person is gender-fluid, it's the responsibility of everyone else who works with them to check their co-worker's social media pages every morning to see what the "pronoun of the day" is so that they don't feel "invalidated" (otherwise you're just a backwards bigot)
It's no wonder how so many people (who would otherwise be pretty moderate) are driven into the far-right.
Yeah, that sounds exhausting for all involved, but I'm not going to go join Richard Spencer's Spencerettes over it or anything. Probably just avoid the person who thinks the world revolves around them and how they feel about their genitals on any given day, since that is none of my business and nothing I want to know about anyway.
Strange that every single security organization in the US with nationalized data access disagrees with your take.
yes but this was said while trump was on power....To be fair, whatever political entity holds the power, has the privilege of appointing people who share their vision on "what the biggest threat to America is".
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Well other than right wing groups are perpetuating more violence that their right wing counter parts.If you were to hit the rewind button by a couple decades to the Nixon Administration, "top intelligence agencies" were labeling Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Anti-war Democrats as "the top threat to our way of life".
The reality is, there's really no measurable metric by which "The Proud Boys" are any greater threat than any other rag tag group of people who wear matching costumes and claim to be "fighters for their cause"...other than the fact that the current party that's in power finds their message more objectionable than that of other groups who are willing to stoop to the same measures, but happen to have a political message that more closely aligns with their own.
Not sure that "far right" is the best way to describe it though.
If someone has left-wing beliefs and runs into the crazy left and goes the other way, that person has changed his or her mind about one to a few things. The rest of those old beliefs come along for the ride. So I wouldn't say it's the far right that the person ends up at, but instead you get a weird kind of moderate, who is angrier than before.
You've just illustrated the point we were trying to show you. Ted Cruz and Ron DeSantis are hardly "far-right!"There's a big difference between "joining Richard Spencer" (who'd be considered alt-right), and deciding to back someone like Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis (who'd be considered far-right).
Well, most people do find those who are on the far-right to be unappealing, that's correct.Most people are going to look at a Richard Spencer or Nick Fuentes and still be disgusted by them and not want anything to do with them.
is Ben Shapiro part of the far right?
Well other than right wing groups are perpetuating more violence that their right wing counter parts.
There was a time when left wing violence was the concern. But now is no longer that time.
They may not even share the views of the far-right, it ends up being more of a "spite vote". I personally know people who are pro gay marriage, pro pot legalization, pro-choice...but ended up voting for Trump anyway, for nothing more than the fact that they were bitter and didn't want a bunch of 23 year old philosophy and gender studies majors telling them what they can and can't do.
No...I wouldn't say he is.
He's said that while he personally disagrees with gay marriage, it's not the government's place to stop it. He's taken a more accepting position on marijuana usage. He's willing to engage with and have respectful conversations with people on the left. He's pro-vaccine. He doesn't fit the mold of a far-right person.
He's basically center-right.
someone like Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis (who'd be considered far-right).
Well, it's still a concern, it's just that people dismiss it on the grounds that "it's not really a group, it's an idea/movement"
I'd argue that Antifa/BLM have caused just as much property damage, assault, physical intimidation, etc... as the proud boys (if not more).
I agree with your sentiment, as a matter of commonly understood terminology. Even so, I can't pretend to know what a transgender is dealing with, so I wouldn't characterize being transgender as the refusal to accept the meaning of male/female.Where are the 'men' with a cervix and a uterus?
What I expressed was not a feeling, nor opinion and we do know what the gender confused are experiencing. A refusal to accept the reality. They are encouraged to do so by those who place emotion above truth.I agree with your sentiment, as a matter of commonly understood terminology. Even so, I can't pretend to know what a transgender is dealing with, so I wouldn't characterize being transgender as the refusal to accept the meaning of male/female.
Respectfully, your words expressed a sentiment (a point of view), and I agreed with you regarding the common understanding of terms denoting gender. However I have a hard time believing you know what the transgender are experiencing. Have you ever had a sincere desire to be a transgender? Have you ever denied the reality of your gender? Because I know I never have.What I expressed was not a feeling, nor opinion and we do know what the gender confused are experiencing. A refusal to accept the reality. They are encouraged to do so by those who place emotion above truth.
Romans, 1:32
Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
There's a big difference between "joining Richard Spencer" (who'd be considered alt-right), and deciding to back someone like Ted Cruz or Ron DeSantis (who'd be considered far-right).
Most people are going to look at a Richard Spencer or Nick Fuentes and still be disgusted by them and not want anything to do with them. However, if person sees far-right politicians like Cruz or Greg Abbott or DeSantis as being the ones who will stand up the most to the kid with the blue hair who tried to get them in trouble at work for "misgendering", or in a more general sense, the crew who gaslights by praising the decision to change the superman slogan to remove the "American way" part because it's "problematic"...I can totally see that happening.
I'm pretty much a "touch left of center moderate" and I see through the insanity and have no desire to support right-wing populist candidates.