What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the "weird" thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.
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What the Friedman NYT crowd misses about the "weird" thing is that it names an ugly irony of the far right.
They want SO MUCH for their regressive creepiness to be an enforcement of norms.
But the norms they violently try to enforce are outdated and gone and, well, WEIRD now
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Gwen Snyder is uncivilreplied to Gwen Snyder is uncivil on last edited by
It's weird to joke about corrective rape.
It's weird to want to inspect kids' genitals to enforce archaic notions of gender essentialism.
It's weird to want women trapped in abusive marriages.
They WANT these things to be the norms, but they simply aren't.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivilreplied to Gwen Snyder is uncivil on last edited by
The "weird" thing lands because more than anything what these people crave is conformity.
They abhor individual expression that might be read as "weird."
And yet it's that very desire for comformity and disgust at nonconformity that MAKES them weird.
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Josh :everything_bagel:replied to Gwen Snyder is uncivil on last edited by
@gwensnyder @geoglyphentropy this reminds me of a conversation I had with some more conservative friends of mine. We were camping, just hanging out and having fun, and one of them brought up trans rights for some reason. So I just asked why any of them even cared, because it didnβt actually affect them at all. And they got all upset and offended and tried to say the problem was that trans people keep bringing it up. So I pointed out that there were no trans people in our group, and they themselves just brought it up out of nowhere for no obvious reason, and again: why do they even care?
It was honestly the least welcome Iβve ever been made to feel with that group, with whom Iβve had very good and productive discussions on other topics like gun control and immigration. No other way to describe it than that they are just being *weird*, and do not like that being pointed out.
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@josh0 @gwensnyder @geoglyphentropy
You have to wonder why some people think recognizing peoples right to exist gives them some kind of special rights?
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@the5thColumnist @josh0 @gwensnyder @geoglyphentropy
I know this is old, but it goes to the center of fascist ideology: no one has the right to exist. The authority grants you that privilege, and is allowed to restrict it at any time for any reason it wants.