Lemmy.ml has now blocked Threads.net
Oh well doesn’t change much does it?
There is nothing personal about pointing out your support for transphobes. It’s just a political fact. If you don’t want to be a transphobe, do not support transphobes. Much like if you don’t want to be called a neoliberal, don’t defend neoliberals, and definitely don’t try to claim they’re left. You’d get laughed out the room in any offline scenario.
I’m not a transphobe and you have no information on which to base that assumption. If you call everyone a transphobe it ceases to have any meaning and you have nothing left for when someone is being actually transphobic.
You support Starmer. Starmer’s labour is transphobic, he has given interviews to mumsnet where he says explicitly terf things. He has explicitly come out in favour of segregating trans people from women’s bathrooms and other spaces. You support this. Ergo you are transphobic. The party needs shot of him he’s a disgrace.
This is such tenuous reasoning. Firstly I didn’t say “I support Starmer”, I commented on whether or not I thought his tactics would be effective in getting elected. I often comment on things the Tories do and say in the same way, and saying " I think X will work" is not an endorsement of X.
Secondly, even if I do intend to vote labour it doesn’t mean I’m endorsing 100% of everything the party/leader says. On an individual level you say don’t care about peoples views and only what they do / achieve so this attitude towards Labour seems completely bizarre to me?
The ‘perfection or bust’ attitude to political parties and leaders gets you another Tory government whereas the pragmatic option might actually get us some incremental improvement. Ironic that we’ve ended up here in a conversation that started as a discussion about left wing factionalism where you claimed it doesn’t exist.
Honestly, as a left wing person in the UK who made some reasonable points higher up the thread about actually achieving something that improves the lives of people now by being pragmatic, who are you going to vote for in the 2024 election?