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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 17 Sep, 2023 @ 12:15pm

  Shoutout to my favorite insightful comment

  I want to give a shoutout to my favorite insightful comment of the week, which is this one by Stephen T. Stone:

  Trans people are being denied gender affirming healthcare in multiple states thanks to specifically targeted laws, whereas cis people (including teenagers!) can get gender affirming treatments such as breast enhancements without any real trouble. Trans people are being targeted by laws that try to force them out of the public sphere by way of determining what public restrooms they have to use⁠—something cis people will never have to worry about. Trans people are being murdered, harassed into suicide, blamed for crimes against children that they didn’t commit, and generally treated like subhuman filth by conservative jackoffs only because trans people are transgender. You may not think that’s persecution because trans people aren’t being systematically rounded up into concentration camps or murdered in the streets by a military police group. But that’s the thing about persecution: It never starts with death camps⁠—but on a long enough timeline, it sure as hell ends there. The only way to stop that from happening is to stop the persecution. To do that, you must first admit the persecution is real.

  First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

  The point of that bit of prose: Those who would have defended you against persecution will already be gone thanks in part to you and your indifference towards their persecution. Before you know it, the leopards you thought would never eat your face are making you their next meal. And no one will stop them because the people who might’ve saved you already learned their lesson from your indifference: They’re not you, so they don’t need to speak out when the leopards (fascists) come for your face (your life). Transgender people are being persecuted regardless of your position on the matter. Will you be courageous and raise your voice against that persecution, or will you be a coward and stay silent as the persecuted suffer and die?

  I really felt it was a powerful defense against the genocide that is happening in the US right now against Trans people.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 05:01pm

  1) which can be cured by transitioning and the problems that they face are primarily caused by transmisiacs such as yourself. 2) AMAB Trans women can still ejaculate semen and AFAB Trans Men can still become pregnant. So what you're saying is biologically and factually false.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 05:36am

  I see what you did there. To be fair, though, I guess "KKK" and "Autism Speaks" would both apply here.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 01:29am

  Ah, thank you for that correction/insight.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 16 Sep, 2023 @ 01:18am

  There was this legend that a sexist rabbi said "Women belong on the Bimah (the Jewish pulpit) like Oranges belong on the Seder Plate!" but it was probably said by a despondent feminist instead, more along the lines of "Forget it, it's no use; there will sooner be oranges on the seder plate than lesbians on the bimah." So we placed oranges on the seder plate as a symbol to make change happen, that we Jews (some of us, rather) choose to progress with the times.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2023 @ 03:50am

  Indeed. The transmisiacs project so much that they're practically opening an IMAX movie theater.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2023 @ 03:48am

  You're literally denying genocide. There are even people on the right who say that Trans people should be "eradicated". This can accurately be called as genocide. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/anti-trans-legislative-risk-assessment

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 08:19pm

  THE FIFTH CIRCUIT, the one with the compromised CLARANCE THOMAS and his insurrectionist wife,

  That's really weird. Clarence Thomas sits in the Supreme Court, and his wife is not a federal judge AFAIK.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 08:15pm

  Why was this comment flagged?

  Why was this comment flagged? The spelling was bad, true, but the AC seems to be agreeing that calling trans people "groomers" is "confirmed transphob[ia]". I see nothing wrong with this post. At least on Techdirt we can see flagged posts and make our own judgments.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 05:49pm

  There are a lot of them where I live in Brooklyn, especially near Williamsburg.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 05:44pm

  Same here.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 05:24pm

  How is the methodology "garbage" in your terms. Please explain. I'm all ears (or eyes, in this case).

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 04:31pm

  I think that was a sketch on Chapelle's Show…

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 04:30pm

  Qualified Immunity, I suppose.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 04:29pm

  They’re stopping more non-whites because the NYPD is filled to the rafters with racist cops

  You're seeing things too small. It's not that there are individual cops who are racist. It's just that police forces are inherently racist institutions because that is reflected in the law (like the sentencing for crack vs. powder cocaine in one example).

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 04:21pm

  Um, I'm not that transmisic pederast fuck, Hyman Rosen. In fact, my name is clearly displayed as "Samuel Abram". Unless you called me an anti-Semitic slur…

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 04:15pm

  Trans People are being ghettoized. How much longer?

  No, I've been following Erin Reed on her Substack Erin In The Morning, and her map indicates that in half of the US, Trans People are facing genocide. In just the worst states, -Gender-Affirming Care is banned -Trans adults will be arrested if they use the bathroom of their gender identity -changes to birth certificates will be prohibited and even have markers to their driver's licenses and birth certificates reverted to the gender they were assigned at birth That you are okay with this means that you "never again" means absolutely nothing to you. Nothing. It means a shitload to me.

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 02:08pm

  Speaking as a Jew

  I'm Jewish, but I'm from a more reform sect. There are various degrees of orthodoxy among our faith, ranging from "keep the orthodox lifestyle that existed pre-Holocaust" (this includes orthodox Jews in New York State who only know Yiddish and didn't learn a word of Hebrew) to sects so reform that atheism is accepted. My sect is more monotheistic one and we have singing in our synagogue, but we're reform enough that at home when we celebrate passover we put oranges on the Seder plate (I can explain that if you ask nicely).

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 01:34pm

  How do you build a business when carrying cash in public runs a high risk of asset forfeiture?

  Or when white people would be more than willing to commit a pogrom against a thriving black community like in Tulsa a century ago?

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  Leah Abram ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2023 @ 01:31pm

  I rated your comment insightful. It made me uncomfortable because it told me inconvenient truths. Here's the thing though, I accept that sober reality and even applaud you for it. So thank you.

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