SolidaritySplodarity

Your doctor isn't named Henry Ford?

lol she's one of my faves

The Soviets killed a bunch of Nazi soldiers after they were captured (fucking good) and put a lot more into their gulag system for 4-10 years where they either died or ended up reeducated. Nazi soldiers were not treated well, though said Nazis were trying to genocide all kinds of groups, including settler-colonizing Russia, and burned, raped, and pillaged their way to Stalingrad, so I'm not going to cry over them under any circumstances.

My understanding is that interpretations that it's about LGBTQ+ people are Western projections onto what discriminating against K-pop beauty standards means in China. The trend getting targeted is about cishet-presenting male entertainers adopting a particular style in order to appeal to a female audience.

"Did you kill anyone?" is a great way to piss off a reactionary veteran and I highly recommend it.

A bidet will give you the realization that Americans are walking around with doodoo asses.

Also despite spraying your booty hole with water, they actually save water by cutting down (dramatically) on your use of toilet paper.

lol I can't tell if upbearing is solidarity or destructive but I did it because you told me to, comrade.

Trans includes non-binary and these sorts of bigots consider gender to be a hard set-in-stone-from-birth dichotomy.

I don't really want to give more examples because then I'd need to add a CW.

"God created two genders: man and woman. It's right in Genesis."

Have you ever argued with a Christian transphobe?

But I'm not talking about interpreting texts... just religious beliefs. We don't need to argue about someone's religious text to know that the transphobic belief that they support through, say, the Genesis narrative is both religious and part of oppression. It's the kind of thing that would come up when supporting bathroom bills or stripping funding that supports trans kids.

I have to wonder how some of the folks here reconcile, for example, these two things:

• Trans rights are human rights, we love our trans comrades.

• We shouldn't reject transphobic religious beliefs.

I know you aren't saying exactly the latter, but folks seem to think that it's something they need to argue about. Some religious beliefs and the need for liberation are incompatible and we must support liberation. And then, when this ideal cannot be reached due to factors outside of our control, we must consider compromises, as all socialists do. The socialist candidate in Peru has some regressive beliefs and I'm sure many would be considered religious. I think most of us can give critical support anyways, since we think that having a problematic comrade will help a lot of people and that new harms are likely to be small. Though there's plenty of healthy discussion to have around such topics.

Alternatively, just consider the other side of the implied dichotomy: "we should not reject any religious beliefs". I don't think people are usually explicitly subscribing to this, but it's the implication behind taking issue with the qualified statement of "we must reject some religious beliefs".

This would be completely untenable even in theory, because the gamut of religious beliefs are frequently mutually exclusive and have real material impacts, even on the class struggle. You will have a negative position on some religious beliefs if you are socialist. e.g., prosperity gospel. Add liberation movements to the struggle, as this community certainly does, and the number of rejections will only increase.

The Bible was written and modified over a super long time that includes basically all of the three big historical ages, and of course for and by different cultural groups (and individuals).

But I'm not sure what understanding that context - and people who draw from that legacy, which you've mentioned - has to do with what I said.

Religious comrades good but many religious claims and beliefs must be challenged. Many are incompatible, antithetical to liberation, reinforcing patriarchical systems, gender normativity homophobia, classism, ethnic "purity", victim blaming, and a deprioritization of material struggle.

Which is not to say it's always the most important thing to highlight these things in every context, nor that you should withhold critical support for AES and revolution by inevitably imperfect movements. We must have solidarity.