Margaret Antwood shut the fuck up challenge. What successful civil rights movements ever worked by asking nicely of their oppressors? like really, it makes zero sense. It also reminds me of when bigots say shit like, "oh i don't mind the gays but i just don't want them rubbing it in my face." Meanwhile hetero shit is fucking EVERYWHERE, you cannot escape it, especially in media.
Proles, beg politely for crumbs so those in power can say "no" and then laugh at you. It's so ingrained in the centrist (and the lib) sense of "normal" they don't even understand how moronic they can be. Take this stupendous Nate Cohn tweet for example...
I think it's totally reasonable to argue that campaigns shouldn't embrace ideas before they are popular. It is not realistic to argue that activists shouldn't advocate for ideas before they're popular.
The modern liberal is a creature entirely devoid of any historical knowledge or culture. I kinda find it funny how Lenin talks about communism as "living life by storybook aphorisms" and now we have an incredibly powerful and moronic political tendency that thinks exclusively in storybook aphorisms.
If people like Atwood were honest - they'd start by tweeting "I am not a TERF but..." Instead it takes months (or even years) before they finally tweet out "I am not a TERF but..."
Just cut to the fucking chase already.
I read the article she linked and yeah it’s not good
CW transphobia
spoiler
Author is a trans woman who thinks trans women aren’t really women until they get bottom surgery. Literally talks about the “male genitalia” like whaat
If Margaret Atwood was alive in the 1850's the would be writing for the New York Times about how abolitionists are going to far
I was just on her page poking around...
Political involvement
Atwood has indicated in an interview that she considers herself a Red Tory in what she sees as the historical sense of the term, saying that "The Tories were the ones who believed that those in power had a responsibility to the community, that money should not be the measure of all things."
"It is damaging for the Woman's Vote movement for toxic activists like Mrs Pankhurst to rile up authorities. Yes, there are conflicts between Women's natural dominion over the household sphere and their participation in Politics, and I think there should be a full discussion! Here's an article by Lady Noncegirdle, a proponent of women rights, explaining why expanding woman's franchise beyond the propertied classes actually hurts women" - Margaret Atwood, 1890.
Don't swing a pool stick to get to where you got to be in a bar fight, buy someone a bud light and have a discussion.
