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  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It's funny to me how even many of those who understand the problems with statements like "but not all men" or "stop complaining, at least you're not <x>" will try to minimize the very real problems atheists can face in certain places.

    • "But not all Christians! Liberation theology!" (generally said to people who grew up in the Bible Belt)
    • "You're still privileged because you can just move somewhere else."
    • "You were never really oppressed, you're just mad because church was boring and your parents made you go."
    • "You're just strawmanning Christianity (even though the kind you're arguing against is dominant where you live and the one that overwhelmingly affects you materially)"

    Thankfully I don't really see this on Hexbear but I've seen it in other allegedly left places and holy shit was it obnoxious.

    • Solara [she/her]
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      2 years ago

      Lol as someone who is trans and also pretty gay, yeah fuck Christianity it did some serious psychic damage to me being raised like that