People be like “Post-covid” as if thousands of people aren’t still dying every week of a preventable disease no one cares enough to prevent. People say “post-covid” like there isn’t an aids-like post viral illness affecting at least one of every five people infected. People say “post-covid” like covid’s effects on our immune system hasn’t lead to an increase in fungal disease across the globe. People say “Post-covid” and don’t think they’re a full-ass eugenicist.
Not being cringey won’t save you from genocide. The people killing us won’t suddenly stop if we all behave like “good upstanding citizens” and the quicker you realise this the quicker you’ll be able to make actual meaningful changes. So what if something a trans person did is “bad optics” we’re human beings who are flawed and still deserve rights not a product to be sold to our oppressors.
person not involved in The Discourse: wow both sides on this need to touch grass lol theyre both wackos
side A on The Discourse: i would like to exist in peace
side B on The Discourse: everyone on side A should kill themselves
so how are we supposed to open posts in a new tab now? clicking the link just takes to the whole blog, not the post. It seems the only way to do it now is to hit ‘copy link’ and then open a new tab and paste it….
transgender but in a problematic way that cant be sanitized by teens who are trying to reinvent the hayes code
Asexual but in a really gross way that approves of kink at pride and all sorts of problematic fiction.
Nonbinary but in a weird, loud, and playful way that might make assimilation at the expense of their own community harder for the cis gays.
People assume proship vs anti discourse is adults fighting with teenagers but there are some that are old enough to vote, some in their 30’s even who spread this rhetoric
And it isn’t just “stupid discourse” anymore. Not when careers, the future of queer/trans rights and lives in general are at stake.
One time I heard a dude online compare new and obscure LGBT terminology to newspeak. This I think is one of the biggest examples I have seen of people with their whole chest ignoring the basic themes of 1984.
In 1984 the whole point of newspeak was that it shrinks. Ideas that could once be communicated now cannot. Everything is simplified as much as possible. You cannot explain complicated ideas of freedom or equality because the words no longer exist, or they don’t mean what they once did.
More specifically, there is canonically no word for “gay” in 1984. There are only two words for the entire spectrum of sexuality. “goodsex” and “sexcrime”. If you’re gay it’s the exact same as being a pedophile. And those are is the exact same as cheating on your wife, which is the exact same daring to fuck your wife just because you feel like it. Which is no different than literally any sex act that might offend big brother.
Do you see what’s happening? In 1984 can no longer ask your wife to peg you or something because the word for pegging is the exact same word for pedophile. And you can’t come out as gay because all you can say is that you did a criminal sex act, which means you cannot make a case for your rights either.
Inventing made up words to describe obscure things that previously lacked words would literally be a perfect remedy to newspeak. This language would counter every barrier to communicating the necessary concepts. Because it’s what literally every normal non-dystopian language does.
Keep this in mind especially in regards to what’s happening in Florida right now.
They associate LGBT+ content with grooming, define it as pedophilia or child abuse or sexual crimes or etc. Then they pass laws calling for sex offenders to be executed.
Bigots or morons claim “Oh, why are you against these anti-child abuse laws?!” Because the state is trying to redefine LGBT+ activity and individuals as being the same as child abuse. For all the bluster and anger over “Grrr, words don’t mean anything anymore! These terms I grew up with don’t matter anymore!” the truth is THEY are the ones trying to limits what words mean because they want to associate certain groups of people with evil people to make more innocent/ignorant individuals be okay with hurting those groups of people.
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