For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.
Idk If I’m ever gonna finish this, so imma give y’all the special treatment of seeing more
Jules Jean-Baptiste Dehaussy (French, 1812-1890)
Portrait d’une jeune fille
Mutual 1: guys we should all be listening to this Czech Electro-ska band that released a single album of seven songs in 1995
Mutual 2: here's 7000 words on french socks 1886-1891
Mutual 3: I think I hauve covid
Mutual 4: obsessed with War and Peace currently literally incapable of thinking about anything else
Pour one out for a real one.
I am begging people who still say “Manifest Destiny” for any reason to understand that it means, very literally and without exaggeration, “White Power”
The Magnus Archives fans are going through it rn:
*looks up TMA, the abbreviated version of The Magnus Archives* BOOM NEW DISCOURSE TERM NOW INSTEAD OF SEEING YOUR SILLY LITTLE BLORBOS YOU GET TO SEE DEBATES/HATEMAIL/ETC ON “WHO IS REALLY TRANS” AND OTHER COMMUNITY INFIGHTING!
*looks up rq, the abbreviated version of rusty quill* BOOM ANOTHER DISCOURSE TERM NOW INSTEAD OF FINDING INFO ON THE COMPANY YOU WANT TO MELANIE YOURSELF!
Free Spirits
why does every queer turn into a redpilled anti-woke far-right comedian fan the moment you tell them they're intersexist like 'stop inventing new terms 🤡🤡 why is everything a slur now 🤡🤡🤡 that one friend that's too woke 🤡🤡' like it's actually surreal how often it happens. i desperately want to know what makes them think that shits okay.