Political Memes

I have no horse in this race but I can't stand having someone insulting or disrespect someone for their sexuality or lack thereof, appearence or outlook on life in the same way I can't stand having self appointed activists hurling jargon as an insult or a form of demeaning towards people that don't include themselves in the LGBTQIA+.

Maybe its because I grew up in a country where the constitution states, very clearly, that no one can be discriminated, enjoy special benefit or privilege based on their ascendency, race, sex, creed, language, country of origin, political or ideological convictions, degree of instruction, economic status, social condition or sexual orientation (my translation).

Nobody is entitled to anything a priori and everyone is equal.

And this is somewhat universally respected and upheld, regardless the sudden surge of populist right wingers trying to appeal in the opposite direction.

Anyone can express their position, freely. As long as they do not express ill intent another person or group.

Want to have a pride parade? Sure.

Want to have a pro-conservative values parade? Sure.

Just mind your mouth. And no, neo nazis, fascists or hate groups don't get a pass.

Battles against discrimination are fought everyday by just living our life and allow others to live their as they see fit. This is not being neutral, this just not wanting to take part in violence and being peaceful. Don't view it as being passive.

Hate this whole reductionist left/right theory. I know/hope most of you don't think it's "Democrats are 100% right" and "Republicans are 100% wrong". And hopefully not many people actually think some mixture of the two is 100% right either. There's huge fundamental issues that they're both wrong about. And the real "both sides" is that both parties in government are responsible for crimes against humanity (regardless of which one is worse), it's like railing against "enlightened centrism" is this shortcut so people don't have to confront hard questions about things our society is doing fundamentally wrong. Like, people, it's not that either you're 100% Dem, you're 100% Republican, or you're some milquetoast combination of the two. This whole system is fucked. The GOP is basically just the vanguard of oppression and the Dems are like this still-unacceptable compromise between horrible oppression and a sane society.

And it's really just textbook whataboutism that any time somebody points out that there are also horrible things done by Dem politicians, they point to something worse done by the GOP. That's why "lesser of two evils" is a fallacy, we get so myopically focused on how each individual could opt for a slightly better option than "the worst possible option", but we never even consider that the sum of individuals going outside that system and creating something better than both awful options would give a better result.