An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      31·
      10 days ago

      Read more carefully.

      cmbabul basically said, “trans people shouldn’t defend themselves, as that would just embolden bigots.” Primecf pointed out that bigots will just make shit up, as Republicans do when they pretend every mass shooter is trans.

      cmbabul is demonstrating behavior found among some allies, where they nominally support trans rights, but get really uncomfortable with the idea of a minority group defending itself with lethal violence. Minorities are meant to be protected in a parental way by the majority. Minorities are not meant to have agency of their own, certainly not in the realm of self-defense.

      • VeganBtw@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        Maybe that’s the subtext, but I don’t see how these two things can’t be true at once :

        1. The Heritage Foundation will spin any resistance as an attack.
        2. Let’s make them afraid.

        To me, both comments are compatible and don’t have a necessary contradiction.

      • cmbabul@slrpnk.net
        4·
        10 days ago

        That’s not at all what I said, they absolutely must arm and defend themselves, but it’s delusion to think the right will not use it as a cudgel to enact even more violence.

        Predicting the behavior of the enemy isn’t telling anyone they should or shouldn’t do anything.