https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1641524828191465486

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Dualism seems to be at the heart of pretty much all terf thought. I don't see how communists can claim to be following marxism when making these arguments, terf beliefs are created by dualism rather than dialectical materialism.

        They aren't MLs anymore. Am I wrong? Is there anything I'm missing that they can use to dance around this point?

    • temptest [any]
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      2 years ago

      No no no, it's when things are made out of materials. Note the single 't'!

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Materialism is when I pretend that things literally happening in a material brain are not based in material reality.

  • hypercube [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    if British Magacommunism becomes a thing I will turn into a twisted, feral beast and rend Big Ben asunder with my terrible claws

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    Yeah, let's just ignore that gender 'ideology' is an actual science with emperical, material research to back it up. Modern advanced biology recognizes that expressed gender is a spectrum seperate from sex.

    These slimy terf grifters really are the lowest of low.

    • temptest [any]
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      Is gender a spectrum? Even if we are just considering contemporary western society where there is no established 'third gender'?

      I feel like that paradigm makes sense if we assume there is an axis for this spectrum, say 'masculinity' <--> 'femininity' and that one can be placed at a certain point between/at the two.

      I'm admitted naïve on the topic of gender but I don't think it makes sense to limit it to an axis, or axes. It feels like a coping mechanism for working within a society which is questioning their historical gender binary, just like the political compass is a coping mechanism for the left-right binary which *kind of * made sense back when it was invented. It makes more sense, it's a slightly better model, but it's still built on an obsolete system and ultimately hinders understanding when dealing with anything beyond most common examples.

      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        Consider that masculine and feminine aren't set points. They're constantly changing and aren't consistent from one culture to another. They're not even totally consistent from one person to the next. For instance blue was/is the feminine color, and pink the masculine one. Gender is a spectrum partially by virtue of its lack of fixed positions.

        There's more or less a masculine and feminine dichotomy, but that's by no means permanent, nor has every society on Earth had those two.

      • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Spectrum might be a oversimplified way to put it, basically, the understanding is that it isn't set into rigid binary at the very least. @axont decribed it better then I can.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        Is gender a spectrum?

        Yes.

        And sex is too.

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  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Rowling demonstrating the most opportunistic use of Marx & Engels

    • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      In a mausoleum in Moscow a trembling is felt, beneath the glass Lenin begins to stir.

      :lenin-crush-capitalism: "Kautsky!!!!"

  • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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    Everyone knows materialism is when you buy iPhone on Black Friday. What are these people on about?

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  • MolotovHalfEmpty [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Ah yes, Suzanne Moore, the writer who left the Guardian because it wasn't transphobic enough claiming that her transphobia was always edited out and that she wasn't ever really welcome at the paper because of it despite writing some of the most inane weekly columns imaginable for 20 years or so.

    She may have been a Marxist once, but she's no fucking materialist. This is a columnist who when presented with Corbyn & Johnson as electoral choices whined about how they're both awful and how she wished she lived in Scotland so she could vote for Nicola Sturgeon. Total lib brain.

  • Dimmer06 [he/him,comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    This would make sense if trans people didn't exist, but they pretty obviously do.

    Isn't denying the existence of a population usually considered a precursor to genocide?