• Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    American left-wing values

    Hold up, what? The Overton window of US politics is so skewed to the right that what is usually considered left-wing there is right-wing elsewhere. US left-wing (read right-wing for much of the rest of the world) values are definitely common globally due to American cultural export (read military hegemony and neocolonialism).

      • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
        61·
        4 months ago

        woke ideology

        Like basic respect for others?

        not allowed to say anything

        Yeah, this is just not true. Unlike those who are actually marginalized, these people say nasty shit and claim that being called a dickhead for it is a violation of their freedom of speech. The reality is that they actually want some sort of immunity to backlash for their own words and actions, effectively limiting other people’s freedom of expression.

          • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
            61·
            4 months ago

            You misunderstand what I am saying: They are mostly (save where hate speech laws apply) allowed to say nasty stuff. They just do not enjoy the privilege of everyone else shutting up about it. I.e., other people react to it and say unkind, possibly nasty stuff back, which the original people in question get butt hurt by and subsequently whine about “the woke mob cancelling them”.

              • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
                61·
                4 months ago

                The woke mob wants me to affirm that a transsexual woman is, in fact, a real woman. I will not say that. I would be a lying. I tend to pursue truth. Truth does not care about people’s feelings.

                Ok. Seems to me that you just want a free pass at being an ass.

                She is a real woman even though she does not conform to your expectations of what gender is. Here is the thing though: She does not need your affirmation to

                1. be real
                2. look like a woman
                3. live like a woman
                4. feel like a woman.

                What reason do you have to claim that she is not a “real woman” (whatever that means, I can guarantee that it is not well defined)? Most importantly, if she feels like a woman, even if you disagree on some metaphysical level of nonsense of what is a woman, why would you have the need to tell her what you think? Lastly, why do you think your opinion about her body is important?

                  • Urist@lemmy.mlEnglish
                    51·
                    4 months ago

                    Transsexual “women” fail to meet one basic requirement to be considered women: they are not female.

                    Ok.

                    When the left stretches things up to the point you can face legal consequences for truthful speech, we digress into totalitarianism.

                    This is not at all what totalitarianism means, look it up in a dictionary or something.