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I think I've finally figured out the, like, core cause of my distaste towards transphobia in general and the leaked memo in particular.
Gender issues is one of the last bastions of birthright caste systems in our society. There's probably a real word, but what I mean is, like, you're born into X, your role is X, you will die as X because you are X kinda thing.
Moving away from apprenticeships, feudalism, slavery, etc., has done wonders to fight that in many aspects of life, expanding (say it with me now) equality of opportunity to a greater and greater population. Expanding the human right of self-determination.
The memo, and transphobic pushes in general, are people crying for the old system, when people were born into certain roles and "knew their place".Well, pardon my English, but fuck that, and fuck them. Self-determination is a goddamn human right.
Hopefully we'll soon have a society where it's a universal right.
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@sashahamilton @orrery Relatedly, some folks on other feeds have pointed out the US lags behind other developed countries in measures of class mobility. Example: https://www.epi.org/publication/usa-lags-peer-countries-mobility/
Kleptocrats support cutting off all avenues of growth and self-determinism while fighting a rear guard against consolidation and rebellion. Which is why they’re dangerous and must be dethroned.
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@sashahamilton @orrery This is the same throughline explaining why they want to go after Roe v Wade, access to health care, and LGBT rights generally as well. Any avenue that allows class fluidity and consolidation of power threatens kleptocrats.
I mean no hyperbole when I say they must be removed from power for the survival of us all.
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@sashahamilton @orrery Which I guess is all a way of saying that instead of hoping, I’ve been recommending working with people who organize and exercising every civil right still available to remove this regime from power.