• BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    And yet, at no point did she say or even infer “only white people can be women” nor bring race into the issue. The OP disagreeing with Rowling on transgender issues is absolutely fine, but to smear her by innuendo to associate her with also being racist is going too far.

    It is also an example of the straw-man nonsense deployed by right wing extremists all the time; it’s disturbing to see the same tactics being deployed by the left or centre on twitter and then more disturbing to see it being upvoted and even justified here.

    • Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      I hate that the tankies have stolen the phrase “blue MAGA”, because I came up with it to describe them and I thought It was pretty eloquent. They have very similar thought processes, just support different things.

      That’s probably why they started using it, actually, to rob it if its descriptive power.

    • MindTraveller@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      You mean imply, not infer. If you’re going to use big words you don’t understand to try and sound smart, look them up in the dictionary first.