But I decided to answer him anyway, because even if he’s not interested, maybe someone else will see it and it will help them understand.
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Something I learned long ago is that when you do these sorts of online 'debates', you aren't really trying to convince the person you're arguing with -- you're trying to convince the people who are reading along.
It is true that Biden shouldn't have been president due to his age, and the Democratic party undoubtedly failed us in his promotion -- he was so chosen by the DNC as a result of his early friendship with segregationists, thus as a counterpoint to Obama. Trump shouldn't be president either due to his age, and if you believe one but not the other, you are a clear hypocrite.
It is not true that Democrats have legalized racism and sexism. Racism and sexism are societal structures designed to oppress specifically people of color and women respectively, through the total disincentivizing of traits commonly associated with nonwhiteness and femininity. If you've ever been chastized for keeping your hair natural or for wearing too much makeup, the ideas behind these things being bad stem from racism and sexism. They're not reversible because traits commonly associated with whiteness and masculinity aren't punished nearly on the same scale as these are. The way we equalize this phenomenon are by uplifting our ideas of nonwhiteness and womanhood, because if we continue as things are they will forever be stigmatized. Addressing this properly would require wide-scale changes to our thought as a society, which the Democrats refuse to do because they are focused on small-scale incremental change. Small-scale incremental change which you are very mad about happening because you want to drift through life unconsciously assuming white, European traits, masculine traits are ideal without ever wondering why you may think so. It's no wonder that the United States is a country of cowards -- you even have to have guns to feel safe among your fellow humans!
It is not true that men are being let into women's sports indiscriminately. Gender transition will often take multiple years of taking your desired hormones to even be CONSIDERED able to compete with your chosen sex, and any trans person (including myself) could tell you this. The purpose of hormone therapy is to bring you closer to societal expectations of gendered appearance and ability, and after long enough it changes everything from your skin texture to elements of your bone structure. Some cisgender athletes have gone on media tours about how outraged they are to share sports with trans people, which is their perogative. Next time you think about this, go ahead and look up the placements of various trans athletes within a given anti-trans spokesperson's field, and see if we really are unnecessarily superior. But it's fine when Michael Phelps is unnecessarily superior, because he isn't trans, is he?
No, trans people, Black people, disabled people, undocumented people aren't the ones causing the downfall of the West -- though it'd be easier for us all if we were. The West is perfectly capable of melting itself down just because we *exist* near you, holy shit. You claim to believe in truth yet silence those of us who are telling the truth about Palestine, claim to believe in liberty yet seethe when people freely make the choice not to start families in this God-forsaken time, claim to believe in justice but balk at attempts to right centuries-old wrongs. We are all God's children and yet you're hell-bent on painting us, your friends and neighbors, as servants of the Devil -- all because we have priorities you don't like. Our current economic troubles plague you and I alike, and so I sympathize with your frustration on that front. But don't pretend like we are the ones causing them, because this is what YOUR values have wrought. This is the natural consequence of the capitalist system. As profitable as it is for you to lie about these things, the truth exists no matter what you or any of us say.
But I decided to answer him anyway, because even if he’s not interested, maybe someone else will see it and it will help them understand.
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Something I learned long ago is that when you do these sorts of online 'debates', you aren't really trying to convince the person you're arguing with -- you're trying to convince the people who are reading along.
Excellent.
Beautifully summarized.
Amen. Sister.
Love this!
Why would any man vote Democrat?
It is true that Biden shouldn't have been president due to his age, and the Democratic party undoubtedly failed us in his promotion -- he was so chosen by the DNC as a result of his early friendship with segregationists, thus as a counterpoint to Obama. Trump shouldn't be president either due to his age, and if you believe one but not the other, you are a clear hypocrite.
It is not true that Democrats have legalized racism and sexism. Racism and sexism are societal structures designed to oppress specifically people of color and women respectively, through the total disincentivizing of traits commonly associated with nonwhiteness and femininity. If you've ever been chastized for keeping your hair natural or for wearing too much makeup, the ideas behind these things being bad stem from racism and sexism. They're not reversible because traits commonly associated with whiteness and masculinity aren't punished nearly on the same scale as these are. The way we equalize this phenomenon are by uplifting our ideas of nonwhiteness and womanhood, because if we continue as things are they will forever be stigmatized. Addressing this properly would require wide-scale changes to our thought as a society, which the Democrats refuse to do because they are focused on small-scale incremental change. Small-scale incremental change which you are very mad about happening because you want to drift through life unconsciously assuming white, European traits, masculine traits are ideal without ever wondering why you may think so. It's no wonder that the United States is a country of cowards -- you even have to have guns to feel safe among your fellow humans!
It is not true that men are being let into women's sports indiscriminately. Gender transition will often take multiple years of taking your desired hormones to even be CONSIDERED able to compete with your chosen sex, and any trans person (including myself) could tell you this. The purpose of hormone therapy is to bring you closer to societal expectations of gendered appearance and ability, and after long enough it changes everything from your skin texture to elements of your bone structure. Some cisgender athletes have gone on media tours about how outraged they are to share sports with trans people, which is their perogative. Next time you think about this, go ahead and look up the placements of various trans athletes within a given anti-trans spokesperson's field, and see if we really are unnecessarily superior. But it's fine when Michael Phelps is unnecessarily superior, because he isn't trans, is he?
No, trans people, Black people, disabled people, undocumented people aren't the ones causing the downfall of the West -- though it'd be easier for us all if we were. The West is perfectly capable of melting itself down just because we *exist* near you, holy shit. You claim to believe in truth yet silence those of us who are telling the truth about Palestine, claim to believe in liberty yet seethe when people freely make the choice not to start families in this God-forsaken time, claim to believe in justice but balk at attempts to right centuries-old wrongs. We are all God's children and yet you're hell-bent on painting us, your friends and neighbors, as servants of the Devil -- all because we have priorities you don't like. Our current economic troubles plague you and I alike, and so I sympathize with your frustration on that front. But don't pretend like we are the ones causing them, because this is what YOUR values have wrought. This is the natural consequence of the capitalist system. As profitable as it is for you to lie about these things, the truth exists no matter what you or any of us say.
Excellent!