No one is defending pimps, or saying people should be forced into sex work, either by threats or material circumstances. But it is a huge leap to go from there into saying sex work, as a whole, is "bad". Like, I agree, what China did (at least as it is portrayed in the picture) is a good thing given that most people today are not sex workers independent of their desire to survive. But that is very different from, again, denouncing sex work on immoral grounds. That is not "based".
The most boring, uncontroversial leftist formula is "commodification of X is generally bad" (X being some important social or cultural relation or institution, or whatever) but for some reason, lib brains get so triggered when X = "sexual relations". It's like their CIA programming kicks in and they become physically unable to think straight and start arguing against some random ass point that nobody made.
No one is defending pimps, or saying people should be forced into sex work, either by threats or material circumstances. But it is a huge leap to go from there into saying sex work, as a whole, is "bad". Like, I agree, what China did (at least as it is portrayed in the picture) is a good thing given that most people today are not sex workers independent of their desire to survive. But that is very different from, again, denouncing sex work on immoral grounds. That is not "based".
The most boring, uncontroversial leftist formula is "commodification of X is generally bad" (X being some important social or cultural relation or institution, or whatever) but for some reason, lib brains get so triggered when X = "sexual relations". It's like their CIA programming kicks in and they become physically unable to think straight and start arguing against some random ass point that nobody made.
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