“Some of Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving Twitter for Bluesky After Trump’s Election”
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Put that into your adblocker custom filters. Just change the lemm.ee to lemmy.world (or what ever instance you're on)
If someone suggests that trans people are predators or perverts just because they want to be treated as the gender they feel, then yes, this person will be dismissed as a bigot.
As they should.
The reason I focus on the vocal minority is that, if those are the only voices someone hears from, I can’t blame them for feeling like everyone on that side is against them. It’s not an accurate perception, but it’s an understandable one.
I, for one, have to constantly remind myself that the views I see on Lemmy don’t represent the silent majority. Not everyone is able to make that distinction. If someone spends 8 hours a day debating politics on Twitter, there’s no middle ground - only the most extreme views get amplified. Anyone attempting a dispassionate, fact-based, non-partisan discussion gets attacked from both sides.
Abortion is a good example. Somehow, I’m a “blue-haired screaming liberal cuck” for thinking a total abortion ban is an indefensible position, but I’m also a “fascist bigot” for believing there should be a point after which abortion requires a legitimate medical reason, backed by a doctor - or even two.
And go where? Get off twitter and come to Lemmy to get dogpiled for not having views that perfectly align with ours. People wont get off twitter untill you offer them a better alternative.
The issue isn’t that identity politics aren’t well-intentioned. The issue is that when the left focuses so heavily on them while dismissing anyone not 100% on board as right-wing bigots, they alienate a significant portion of the population. You never get to implement meaningful change because the people fed up with all this end up voting the other way. It serves no one’s interests to alienate straight white men and treat them as the root of all evil - that’s more than a third of the population.
Take someone like Joe Rogan, for example. The guy hadn’t voted Republican his entire life. He grew up in San Francisco with two hippie parents - you don’t get more classically liberal than him. He’s even had trans guests on his podcast. And yet, look at him now. He’s endured years of relentless attacks from the left, often treated unfairly and having his views misrepresented. Can you really blame him for switching sides? I can’t. Elon Musk is no different.
The left did this to themselves. If you want to win elections, the party has to be something people want to vote for. Right now, the only thing the Democrats have going for them is that the other side is even more unhinged. Simply being "less bad" just isn’t enough anymore.
I rarely buy stuff online and when I do it's usually something I could buy locally too but I get it for cheaper from China.
I don’t think she’s a communist, and I’ve never claimed otherwise. I even acknowledged this in the part you’re quoting, yet you still choose to misinterpret my views.