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“If the capitalists are ok with something it must be bad”
Classic
Same reasoning that leads to people praising authoritarian regimes like China and Russia.
That's not what they are saying.
I mean...
Maybe we can examine issues on their own merits rather than trying to squeeze every round peg into the class struggle square hole?
That's pretty shitty but not surprising for tankies.
Pretty much the only other time I have seen any transphobia on Lemmy is from a .ml user who called someone a chaser for saying they were married to a femboy. These people don't actually care about LGBT issues - they are just trolls who use it as a cudgel when it is convenient.
bourgoisie is based B)
Wow, spread this everywhere dude. Also make note that they're a lemmy dev
perhaps jovial?
Can someone explain to someone out of the loop what's transphobic about his post?
Saying that the topic of "caring about transgender and LGBT issues" is promoted by the bourgeois is clearly not intended to indicate they respect those communities concerns.
The "men in women's sports" thing is just straight up transphobic, sexist misinformation.
It shouldn't need to be explained, but using "trans" as a label to attack a woman to delegitimize her sporting victory is just a hot mess of issues.
This entire train of conversation seems bizarre to me. While I don't know the intention, the topic is being promoted by companies. Fervently. And having to embezzle "biological" from the sentence doesn't leave a good feel, either.
This feels more like an ideological war than an factual war.
Are you referring to the topic of "lgbtq people deserve rights", or are you referring to "the boxer is a woman"? And when you say "embezzle biological from the sentence", what do you mean? I think I know, but I would like to be clear.
To be entirely clear: Imane Khelif, the Algerian women's Olympic boxer, is a cis, born, biological, genetic, assigned female at birth, raised as a woman, anatomical, woman. Trans women are also women, but in this case she is not a trans woman, so the whole thing is just multiple levels of awful and gross.
All controversy surrounding her is factually inaccurate, transphobic and sexist, which is quite the combo.
Lgbtq rights and respect are entirely an ideological issue. I don't think anyone argued that it wasn't. Lgbtq rights are human rights, and human rights beliefs are intrinsically ideological.
They're not being promoted by companies, they're being leveraged or "exploited* by companies who have realized that human rights are popular.
The objective is to get money from people. What other objective do you think a company would have? Do you think they're trying to promote being trans for some reason?
What has some Algerian boxer to do with all of this? I feel like I'm missig 27 layers of hate.
Middle of the image you're responding to, when they refer to "allowing biological men to compete in women's sports at the Olympics".
Said Algerian boxer became the center of claims that she was actually trans and competing against women unfairly after she punched another boxer in the face, like boxers do, and the other boxer had to drop out on account of "face all messed up".
See my previous comment for a breakdown on the validity of that claim, and maybe some understanding of why it's just a big pile of ignorance and hate.
I see. Okay, so I checked WTF you're all talking about and it seems like an XY woman wrecked a XX women, which I also feel is bullshit considering the massive biological difference. Not sure what that has to do with a phobia of any kind, though.
swing and a miss. Remember that big part where I talked about how she's a woman in every possible sense of the word? Read that again.
You're looking at the hate and then just believing it. Don't.
Okay, I re-checked and it kind of holds up but not totally.
Frankly, to me that issue isn't worth pursuing. It's easy enough to check, and seems to generally have nothing to do with transsexuals anyway.
I like to keep away from manufactured outrage.
Couple things: a statement relating to unspecified testing about one failed test to Russian state media is a pretty far cry from "it kind of holds up".
I'm glad you avoid manufactured outrage. In this case, the manufactured outrage is from the people falsely claiming a woman is secretly transgender and spreading misinformation, like in the original post you seem to not have a problem with.
You don't see what accusing someone of being transgender to undermine their win has to do with transgender issues?
Also, "transexual" is not the preferred nomenclature. Transgender is. The former is an older, dated term and is generally best avoided.
Going by their username, I don’t think they have any compunctions about using dated terminology.
You are taking what they said out of context
First, no, I'm not. I said that having read the full context of the comment.
Second, what context do you think would make what they said not transphobic? I don't think there is one, so even if taken out of context, which it wasn't, it would be as I said.
The part at the beginning up to the middle
Don't also forget the ending as well. The whole FUCKING thing is transphobic
The part about the firefox plugin?
Now that it's been explained to you, can you explain to us what was so hard to understand that you needed it explained to you?
The "intentions" everyone seemed to be reading into the post. Outsiders can only take the statement on face value.
I went and read the context behind this one. Posting just this comment alone is abit disingenuous. I didnt see any phobias there except maybe the fear of the ruling class in society.... Seems that dude was just talking frankly and making observations about what appears to be a contradiction in the original posters logic
full poat: https://lemmy.world/comment/11541457
That context doesn't actually change the reading of the message as far as I can see.
I'm not sure why the original poster brought economic politics into it, but the best possible reading of "where are these 'transphobes' and why do they need 'rooting out'" is only neutral, and none of it offsets the weird Olympic sports thing.
So ... Yay for context, but nothing disingenuous about this post as far as I can see.
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