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Feinberg came of age working in factories, and joined the Workers World Party, later becoming a writer and managing editor for the Workers World newspaper, where hir “Lavender & Red” articles discussed LGBT issues.
In 1992 ze published Transgender Liberation: A Movement Whose Time Has Come, followed by hir first novel, Stone Butch Blues, a year later. The novel struck a chord with readers worldwide, and was translated into several languages, including Chinese, Turkish, Italian, and Hebrew. A later book, Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to RuPaul, won the Firecracker Alternative Book Award.
Ze went on to publish a collection of articles and a second novel, Drag King Dreams, in 2006. Beyond hir writing, Feinberg spent decades fiercely advocating for a wide spectrum of disadvantaged groups, including the disabled, the working class, women, homosexuals, and transgender people.
After decades of battling complications from Lyme disease, Feinberg died at the age of sixty-five.
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Well I guess about half the people here easily fall for fascist tropes.
This has passive aggressive facebook status update energy.
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True. I forget people don’t get caught in the struggle sessions. A bunch of people think that telling people not to have kids is moral, because the world is bad right now.
Judging by how he responded to me simply saying that there are decent ethical arguments to be made that having children is less moral than not having them, yes.
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This is why I came to megathread. I know the regulars don’t fall for reactionary view points that ez.
I really don't consider that viewpoint to be nihilistic. It's not that I don't think we shouldn't improve things for people who do choose to have kids and I'm not advocating for them not to.
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I don't see how it's any more reactionary than a stance like veganism. In all seriousness, can you please explain to me what's so reactionary about saying "I think it's less ethical to keep creating more sentient life than it is to just not but we should try to improve life for everyone regardless of whether they decide to have children or not, since people obviously still will"? And what do you mean "like it's philosophy"? It is a thing that is actually discussed in philosophy and it's kind of weird to act like it's not.
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A personal choice that inherently creates the conditions for unnecessary suffering to exist.
So we're at the point again where you are making up shit that I have literally never said.
So why are you making up things to strawman me about instead of asking my reasoning? It has literally nothing to do with Malthus and just that on balance, I think there is a high risk of extreme suffering in life and absolutely zero risk in plain non-existence. That's it, that's the entire argument. That doesn't lead to the inherent conclusion that you should kill yourself like you claimed earlier, and it's not a hardline stance that I think should be made into policy by anyone.
lmao the classic "read theory" without even offering a starting point. look, if you want people to be part of your movement, being a massive dick over a minor quibble is not the way to go about doing it. educating people is also 101 shit and you suck at doing it.
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lmao, we're both debate bros, who are you kidding dude?
yeah man, murder is cool and everyone should definitely do it because i don't believe the years i lived with depression and horrible back pain are something i would ever want to risk putting a child through. you got me, guess i was right all those times i wanted to kill myself lol
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I live to fall for fascist tropes. I generally love doing all the tropes
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Idk Beat. Go through the thread, it’s a lot. And quite disappointed how easily people are falling for this shit.
I think it comes from this view of my life is full of suffering and I don’t think anyone else has the right to impose suffering onto someone else + having a general distain for humanity because we have a long history of killing each other and destroying our habitat.
Which is once again liberal ideology born out of personal responsibility and totally ignoring the basic fact that humans are made to reproduce and this earth has plenty of room and resources for all of us, but it’s capitalists who steal it all for themselves.
They think they’re being woke by using a fascist taking point against capitalist countries when in fact you’re bolstering their argument for them.
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Correct.
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