• frezik@midwest.social
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    7 months ago

    A little while back, I met a black guy who went to a Turning Point USA convention, and he said those people were nicer than feminists. Which of course they were. They wanted to use him as the example in sentences that start with “I have a black friend who…”

    Same thing here. They probably do turn down the homophobic rhetoric in his presence. This works if you don’t pay attention to anything else.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah that’s the thing, they’ll be really nice to your face as they take away your rights and protections. They know you’re one of the good ones. Right up until you start expecting something of them.

      The left expects things of people. We expect you not to be a racist, and so racists think we can be pretty mean. We expect you to not be a misogynist, so we wind up being mean feminist killjoys…