Political Memes

That guy is reddit

You think that guy isn’t also on Lemmy?

Serious response, but that's almost certainly some random guy who got paid like 100 bucks by a stock image company. I always feel bad when a real person's likeness gets applied to horrible ideological positions they probably don't personally endorse just because they look like a stereotypical chud.

The meme is more targeting so-called "devil's advocates" and people who argue from a position of extreme privilege. An example I can think of is people hand-waving away the existence of concentration camps and Democrats' role in colonialist border policy, which is easy for someone to say who's not imprisoned in those camps.

Or implying we need to compromise on LGBT+ equality, etc.

Does that sound like what you're doing? I'm not seeing that sort of thing in your description.

It's ok to be a vocal ally or supporter of a cause, but "devil's advocates" usually don't have anything worthwhile to contribute.

You're over-analyzing it. It's a shitpost about people who shitpost about not voting for Biden and the people who shitpost in response to the not-vote-for-biden shitpost.

Unless you were shitposting; bravo if so sir.

Doubtful you are taking up all the oxygen in the room friend, you are trying to learn about others to cultivate a varied and nuanced opinion. The type of engagement being described here is more specific...

What happens a lot of the time is people coming on and basically trying to tell people what their deal is. I am trans and people in this category of engagement come at me and try to insist things directly to my face about me which simply do not reflect how being trans works. They can't argue me out of my position when it represents my lived reality but they will argue from a position that they are an authority that can tell me what is best for me... Or they argue from a position of a society that just doesn't have time or patience to care and shouldn't need to expend effort to care. They desperately have an opinion because everyone is talking but they get their sources strictly from cis people who talk strictly to other cis people about us because talking to us and letting us tell them what our deal is ourselves is unthinkable. Our accounts if reality are discounted because we are supposed to be delusional and someone else, a cis person, should be making decisions for us. To actually approach us as an authority on what it is like to live our lives is by them considered a radical position.

A lot of it can be easily spotted in how someone had their whiteness pointed out to them or mention how the concept of whiteness operates in society. Basically because whiteness is supposed to be a default just mentioning it tends to make white people uncomfortable to talk about it. That we think about our whiteness as little as possible is a feature of privilege and not a comfort extended to POC who operate in ways that interface with their race regularly. So when we discuss that privilege it brings us in line with the level of conscious awareness POCs tend to have about how their race routinely impacts their experience and rather than seeing that as an equality and sensitivity to be aware of their own whiteness in a space people treat it as a racist attack because we aren't supposed to even be a race - just a raceless default.

Problem is if trans or POC people talk about cisness or whiteness then suddenly there's a hissy fit about how we shouldn't even mention those things. They are treated like slurs because we aren't supposed to notice you're cis and white. It is the thing we cannot speak on... But try being a minority and NOT discussing the majority. Our we don't get to choose how our society operates, the majority does which means every time we leave the house we deal with the majority while members of majority and the minority themselves only gets to see a minority rarely. Our lives are limited by the will of a majority and sometimes that means discomfort, inconvenience or pressure exerted on us by them. You can't talk about us without understanding what you look like from our perspective. So in saying "you can't talk about us!" the burden falls on us because we can't really use comparison or try and utilize what we know of your norms to explain what ours are.

If you are self aware that people who experience a thing directly have insights you can learn from. This guy in the meme isn't you.

The country of lemmy.world?

So, what's your race and gender then as I'm generally curious.

That's not how social contructs work. Money is a social construct, yet people talk about it and need it to live. Language is a social construct but it has a huge impact on communication. And we acknowledge that all these constructs are real and keep affecting us.

The problem with race isn't just that it's a social construct, but the fact that it's a social construct used to make a hierarchy out of arbitrary traits. It's still maintained and keeps affecting people.

Therefore the only way to address the consequences of that construct is by looking at certain issues through its lenses.

For example, if we would look at poverty in marginalised groups without taking into account that construct, the conclusions would be that these marginalised groups are poor because they "made poor decisions" and deserved it.

However, if we take it into account, we can acknowledge the fact that the discrimination that marginalised groups face, aswell as their family background (ex: slavery) contributes a lot to the reasons as too why they are poor than people that aren't marginalised.

It shouldn't have been a race issue, but because of how race keeps affecting these issues, it is. So we address it that way.

Actually yes on Reproductive Healthcare, he signed a Memorandum in 2023 and Executive Order in 2022.

He also signed into law an update to the Respect for Marriage Act that extends protections to homosexuals and the trans community.

He also signed the Eviction Memorandum that prevented people from being evicted during the Pandemic.

Ironically the legislature that Biden helped write and pass in 1994, which overall was an absolutely terrible bill that most Democrats regret, is actually the law that gives the DOJ the power to audit and investigate Police Departments, but sadly the Patterns and Practice Reform Work reports seems to have ended under the Trump Admin and has yet to be renewed in any meaningful way.

Admittedly, Biden only mentioned an end to Cash Bail in passing as a single sentence in a 42 page document back in 2021, so not much progress there, but he did Pardon all simple possession convictions very early in his presidency.