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cleminan
@cleminan.uk

the insidious nature of the anti trans movement laid out. women deserve safe spaces, but the campaigns against people fighting for basic human decency across all society does nothing to create that. everyone deserves safe spaces. everyone includes trans people. part two: bsky.app/profile/robi...

Robin Ince@robinince.bsky.social

It’s been very odd biting the bullet & revealing details only my closest friends knew about was going on around monkey cage over last few years - and now I wait for the next lot of attacks but I also know there will be solidarity www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po... www.patreon.com/RobinInce/po...

patreon.comThe Gaslight Years - part one | Robin Ince“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to dea

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cleminan
@cleminan.uk

to state that all trans people pose a danger is the same argument made around 2010 when all people in hijabs were terrorists. it isolates a small & already powerless subset of our society & loads them up with a label to justify to the attacker their unwarranted hate.

cleminan
@cleminan.uk

unfortunately it is not possible to engage with activists in a mature way, they do not argue in good faith, or understand nuance. either because they are blind to alternative views, unable to countenance the opposing case, or because they know they have no real counter argument to their chosen view.

cleminan
@cleminan.uk

it is held as a religion, a point of faith. not an opinion to be tested. we see this more & more as we're served up everything we want from the internet & become increasingly intolerant of those things we do not. they don't have to be big things, pavlov has trained us to pounce.