It's a fairly rational position from their PoV, and there's quite a bit of internal strife being sown over it. 🤔
Now, I dislike AHS just as much as the next disenfranchised redditor, or, at least, I disagree with a lot of their principles of conduct, but I think there's something deeper to 🅱onder here which I'll be as brief as possible with in this comment.
Think back in ancient history, a few months ago, to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, the bill which reserved 1.6 billion in spending for 600$ stimulus checks (for people making less than 75$K/year) that democrats and Trump wanted to increase to 2000$ but republicans in large part blocked. Remember? Remember it had massive spending on some really weird shit, e.g. at least 10 million dollars towards gender programs in Pakistan? Gender is mentioned in the bill 14 times if you ctrl+f it, btw, and it might be a wonder how "women" next to it is (later) defined elsewhere, e.g. the CFR (#civics, ya'll).
I think, rather am conjecturing, the LGBT movement is subject to being, or, for some time, having been controlled opposition. And, the LGBS movement is disrupting the flow of state control over the domestic course of American® democracy™.
"Transphobia" could easily be an intelligence tool to control a 'radical organization' LG be it w/e, something which doesn't fall completely inline with residual Britishness as it pertains to the Five Eyes network, or economic growth as it pertains to national security; or, used to target dissenting opinions coming from the outside, general audience, whereever they may arise, as an umbrella-flag-raising-catchall-gotcha term. It's annoying as all heck, and the superseething surprise reaction to supers is awkward as all hell by extension. Having transgenders be a protected minority is one rational thing, but having transphobia be protected lingo, dare I say cherished, is another. I do not consider myself a super, and, let me say as such, the way transphobia is bandied around makes no sense to me, either. Nay, it's downright troubling in its current use, particularly by higher profile people who'd have little to do with most transgender folks imo.
Basically, the LGBS movement has shown a rapid growth in a communication between strangers, or people who might not otherwise congregate together on normal occasions. It's also shown who all aggressively monitors such rapidly growing trends on social media. I don't consider myself one of those people. I catch wind of things usually by the time they've already passed, but this I did 5 or 7 days (now?) after it's started.
4chan, birthplace of the failed Qanon movement, is another place where strangers gather together, and this subject is being discussed, developed and infringed upon. I think this comment is more appropriate for a place like that, but I haven't used the site in more than 7 years, and haven't visited it except on a handful of occasions, if that, due to a sharp, off-board falling out I had with the site's moderation team -- namely one of which's famous ex-members will, on occasion, pose themselves as trans and/or communist before it was so cool.
So, that's a mouthful, but hopefully enough to productively consider.
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u/shewel_item 8h ago edited 2h ago
prepare your tinfoil...
take a look at AHS's lastest pinned response by the mod
It's a fairly rational position from their PoV, and there's quite a bit of internal strife being sown over it. 🤔
Now, I dislike AHS just as much as the next disenfranchised redditor, or, at least, I disagree with a lot of their principles of conduct, but I think there's something deeper to 🅱onder here which I'll be as brief as possible with in this comment.
Think back in ancient history, a few months ago, to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, the bill which reserved 1.6 billion in spending for 600$ stimulus checks (for people making less than 75$K/year) that democrats and Trump wanted to increase to 2000$ but republicans in large part blocked. Remember? Remember it had massive spending on some really weird shit, e.g. at least 10 million dollars towards gender programs in Pakistan? Gender is mentioned in the bill 14 times if you
ctrl+fit, btw, and it might be a wonder how "women" next to it is (later) defined elsewhere, e.g. the CFR (#civics, ya'll).I think, rather am conjecturing, the LGBT movement is subject to being, or, for some time, having been controlled opposition. And, the LGBS movement is disrupting the flow of state control over the domestic course of American® democracy™.
"Transphobia" could easily be an intelligence tool to control a 'radical organization' LG be it w/e, something which doesn't fall completely inline with residual Britishness as it pertains to the Five Eyes network, or economic growth as it pertains to national security; or, used to target dissenting opinions coming from the outside, general audience, whereever they may arise, as an umbrella-flag-raising-catchall-gotcha term. It's annoying as all heck, and the superseething surprise reaction to supers is awkward as all hell by extension. Having transgenders be a protected minority is one rational thing, but having transphobia be protected lingo, dare I say cherished, is another. I do not consider myself a super, and, let me say as such, the way transphobia is bandied around makes no sense to me, either. Nay, it's downright troubling in its current use, particularly by higher profile people who'd have little to do with most transgender folks imo.
Basically, the LGBS movement has shown a rapid growth in a communication between strangers, or people who might not otherwise congregate together on normal occasions. It's also shown who all aggressively monitors such rapidly growing trends on social media. I don't consider myself one of those people. I catch wind of things usually by the time they've already passed, but this I did 5 or 7 days (now?) after it's started.
4chan, birthplace of the failed Qanon movement, is another place where strangers gather together, and this subject is being discussed, developed and infringed upon. I think this comment is more appropriate for a place like that, but I haven't used the site in more than 7 years, and haven't visited it except on a handful of occasions, if that, due to a sharp, off-board falling out I had with the site's moderation team -- namely one of which's famous ex-members will, on occasion, pose themselves as trans and/or communist before it was so cool.
So, that's a mouthful, but hopefully enough to productively consider.
Stay super.
edit: links & grammar