i didnt know the leopards would eat my face
Do you think, deep down, these "one of the good ones" people fucking hate themselves? You'd have to right?
Like, does Candace Owens ever look at YouTube comments under some PragerU vid and see the "despite being 13%..." shit a thousand times over and maybe just consider that the side they picked considers her to be a subhuman. That maybe there's a link between "conservative values" and horrid racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia etc.?
Glad you've gotten yourself out if that rut. :transshork-happy:
I can see how it happens but I am always shocked at how long some people stay in there. I suppose it's easy to hate the world if you hate yourself.
Building up enough self esteem to stop relying on that for validation is difficult and takes a long time, especially because just staying in that cycle fucks up your self esteem further.
Don't want to make assumptions about anybody's experience, so @zukostan98 please correct me if this isn't the same thing, but what you said reminded me of a conversation I had with a gay friend about imposter syndrome. We both felt like we weren't smart enough to be in our fields, so we specifically sought out approval of the assholes who are most notorious for ripping students to shreds, because praise only felt "real" if it came from somebody who's skeptical of everything. (Mostly, this is just a great way to get ripped to shreds yourself, which obviously doesn't help you feel good enough.) He told me that his 4chan stage, and attempts to be friends with the shittiest, most homophobic bro dudes when he first came out came from a similar sense of needing to clear the "highest" bar to prove to himself that he wasn't the awful stereotype of a gay man he had in his head. I can't imagine how hard it would be for Blaire or Milo or somebody like that to escape that way of thinking, now that they've built a whole public persona and income around it.
You don't become a fascist without some deep pathology. That might be purely personal, I think Ben Shapiro climbs a ladder to look in a mirror every morning and hates himself more than I ever could, or something more structural. Owens' would be interesting.
Best I heard to describe the pathology of Shapiro, is he 100% still thinks of himself as a boy genius.
I was shocked when I learned he was in his mid-30s (37 now). bubby...
Pretty sure her and all these other conservative talking heads are only looking at the checks the Kochs or whomever are sending them
I know Blaire White is awful, but I couldn't help feeling really bad for her :sadness:
I feel no sympathy for that parasite.
Ya reap what you sow :xi-clap: .
Nobody deserves to be discriminated against because of their identity. Saying it's ok that people were transphobic to her because of her politics is justifying transphobia
You don't have to feel sympathetic for her but she does not deserve any transphobia.
She's a definite long-term member of the Nebraska
GulagSocialist Edutainment Resort for Future Comrades after the revolution, but as Socialists we are right to feel rage and sorrow at any type of oppression and bigotry.
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EDIT: by the gods. that absolutely disgusting woman was just sitting there ranting, dehumanizing her, and not one of them had the guts to open their mouths to so much as interrupt her.
Maybe add a content warning to that title as the video contains an horrible transphobic rant.
:cringe: i wished we had a better emote to portray my face watching that video.
I want a deep fried cringe emote, then the website is complete.
I wonder if she, and others like her (Candice Owens, etc), really believe in what they say if they just want the grifter money.
It has to be the latter after getting this type of overt hate. You can write off or pretend not to hear a lot of dogwhistle type stuff, but this?
Candace Owens is a blatant grifter based on her history, and she's been fairly successful at it so far. She tried to launch a website that tracked political harassment on behalf of Dems awhile back which failed. No idea about Blaire though.
oof, it gets worse the more you watch.
transphobia warning
We have a transgender on here and we shouldn't be giving this person a platform because their ideology is a gateway drug to pedophelia
You cannot have children so why should I support your lifestyle
We already have a transgender man... woman... it? running the federation of women in California
i know a little bit about Blaire, mostly from a Contrapoints video but damn, I felt kinda bad for her in this? I mean that blone lady just completely invalidating so many people by saying that garbage. I know Blaire is a really shitty person but fuck, it was pretty messed up listening to that stuff
actually idk how much of it is me feeling bad for the entire LGBTQ community more so than feeling bad for Blaire. I could see that language hurt her but she has said some extremely fucked up things in her past. I just don't think anyone in those communities deserves that kinda bigotry at all
Yeah it's normal to feel sympathy for people like her. Trans people do not deserve to experience transphobia and misgendering, no matter how shitty they are.
I went through a range of emotions watching this and without getting into detail I think the end point of my thoughts was somewhere along the lines of "I need to take a second look into gulags, maybe they're not all bad."
