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23 minutes ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Im convinced that the men who complain about trans people and act all outraged that they have the audacity to exist are the ones who are privately very much attracted to trans ladies and do the outrage stuff to over compensate. 

The sheer terror that someone, somewhere, might think you've considered putting a penis into your mouth  :o

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2 hours ago, Inanimate Carbon Rod said:

Im convinced that the men who complain about trans people and act all outraged that they have the audacity to exist are the ones who are privately very much attracted to trans ladies and do the outrage stuff to over compensate. 

That's just a lazy, cliched argument that is most likely a load of nonsense. 

Those people are just bigots

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6 hours ago, MixuFruit said:

Nice wee positive story today. This year has hugely raised the profile and influence of living rent.

 

 

 

Living Rent = Good 

However  this does sound like the sort of fantasy island bullshit you would hear from a Momentum member.

If my deposit hadn't been lodged with with a registered deposit scheme i would looking for way more than just the deposit back.

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23 hours ago, DA Baracus said:

That's just a lazy, cliched argument that is most likely a load of nonsense. 

Those people are just bigots

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/

Well it's not a lazy cliche for homophobes. There are multiple studies suggesting this as a factor in homophobia. It isn't a massive stretch to imagine the same goes for transphobes. Maybe not so much that they're attracted to trans people but probably that they're not as secure in their own gender identity as they want to project.

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https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/homophobes-might-be-hidden-homosexuals/
Well it's not a lazy cliche for homophobes. There are multiple studies suggesting this as a factor in homophobia. It isn't a massive stretch to imagine the same goes for transphobes. Maybe not so much that they're attracted to trans people but probably that they're not as secure in their own gender identity as they want to project.


I get this but I also understand why queers are suspicious of straight people who want to quickly dismiss bigots as being in the closet because it can be interpreted as an attempt at deflection.
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26 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

 


I get this but I also understand why queers are suspicious of straight people who want to quickly dismiss bigots as being in the closet because it can be interpreted as an attempt at deflection.

 

Yeah. Like all this stuff the best guess would probably be it's an element of what makes up homophobia/transphobia for some people. As in, the results are significant enough to suggest it's a thing but certainly not the whole story.

Also don't think it excuses or diminishes bigotry in the slightest. Bigotry is probably the result of 'other things' in the vast majority of cases and I don't think any of the causes of it are really excuses.

But yeah, when it comes across as "haha, that means you're actually gay tho" type stuff, it doesn't sit right.

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14 hours ago, Stormzy said:

Anyone see this btw?

I actually can't comprehend how this is a thing. 

You can read million different articles lauding the introduction of the pill being an emancipatory event for Western women. This is no different. It's the equivalent of women realising that their priest telling them that contraception is a sin is bullshit to control them. 

 

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14 hours ago, MixuFruit said:

Is this what detournement was on about when he described uighurs as undeveloped?

I've looked into it more and the claims of oppression come from two sources either a single US State department study which interviewed 8 Uighurs or an Australian Christian fundamentalist lunatic called Adrian Zenz who runs an organisation called The Victims Of Communism. 

 

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Just now, MixuFruit said:

When you described Uighurs as far less socially developed, what did you mean?

Stuff like school attendance, literacy, employment, gender equality and religion  mainly.

I think I was reading Marshall Berman's "All That Is Solid Melts Into Air" when I wrote that so I was probably thinking the stuff he wrote about emerging individual subjectivity and political consciousness.

 

 

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I've looked into it more and the claims of oppression come from two sources either a single US State department study which interviewed 8 Uighurs or an Australian Christian fundamentalist lunatic called Adrian Zenz who runs an organisation called The Victims Of Communism. 
 
Well I've personally spoken to Uighurs who have claimed oppression, so there's a third source for you.
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1 hour ago, MixuFruit said:

Does it then follow that your position is that if there are cultural reasons for any disparity in these factors between Uighurs and the general Chinese indicators for these factors (for argument's sake that of the Han population), and to bring those to parity in some areas brings those two cultures into conflict, the duty of the Chinese government to intervene overrides the Uighur status quo?

They are located at the extremities of a country which had it's economic development violently stunted by Western imperialism (joined by Japan) for 130 years (First Opium War to Nixon normalisation).

No one is saying China is perfect or flawless just that they should be subject to the same judgements and standards as Western nations were/are in their economic development.

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They are located at the extremities of a country which had it's economic development violently stunted by Western imperialism (joined by Japan) for 130 years (First Opium War to Nixon normalisation).
No one is saying China is perfect or flawless just that they should be subject to the same judgements and standards as Western nations were/are in their economic development.

They are subject to the same standards as Western nations, that's why they're rightfully being pilloried for their behaviour. To suggest that China are getting a hard time because they're not European is absolute deflectionary nonsense.
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1 minute ago, MixuFruit said:

Just a yes or no is fine. Is that your position?

I've struggled through that disaster of a sentence and I think I understand what you are asking. 

Yes the Chinese government have a duty to deliver modern society to all their citizens. This isn't Star Trek. 

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2 minutes ago, DiegoDiego said:


 


They are subject to the same standards as Western nations, that's why they're rightfully being pilloried for their behaviour. To suggest that China are getting a hard time because they're not European is absolute deflectionary nonsense.

I'm loathe to reply to you but that is nonsense. 

There are many liberals and hard right wingers who believe that the Chinese state shouldn't exist in its current form because of its actions in Xianjing but would never apply the same standards to the British, American and French states which have done far, far worse around the world. 

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