Are these rights as secure as you assume? That was the only red flag in an otherwise excellent piece. Ironically, the promotion of bizarre gender woo is the biggest threat to LGBbrihhts st the monent
You're quite right, there's no guarantee that our basic rights are secure at all. All the more reason we need to hold the line and maintain sanity in this increasingly murky area of civil rights.
It's the *perception* that LGB and T rights are no longer a fresh new frontier, that they're becoming established in the firmament, that is driving these orgs to grasp at gender fundamentalist extremism to keep their donor bases energized.
When the Bostock ruling came out, the final brick in an exquisite legal edifice DECADES in the making, the tone at GLAAD, for example, was not one of celebration but of panic: "Don't worry, folks! Nothing to see here! We're still business as usual! Plenty more activism to pitch you!"
This is very funny. SPLC has needed a takedown for a long time. I'm sorry it has to come pertaining to issues which most people will consider marginal and basically harmless. "They're just supporting progressive causes," people will say.
There is also the Human Rights Watch that has gone woke. I have taken all those off my list of charities.
ACLU, HRW,Planned Parenthood, SPLC.. and many others! I check on what they say about trans ideology and then drop them! Lots of other charities out there now that are doing good work to help people and animals! .. without focusing on trans! Besides ,,the trans cult gets millions and millions from people who are pushing their agenda!
Yep. Activist nonprofits that succeed with their initial goals are very vulnerable to losing their way and succumbing to the grift temptation. Saul Alinsky talks a bit about this in Reveille for Radicals/Rules for Radicals, how the Back of the Yards movement in Chicago became corrupt after its initial successes.
SPLC did great work against the Klan back in the day. But now? Grift.
By the same token, organizations whose aim it is to roll back the excesses of gender identity ideology would do well to avoid energizing their bases by allying with extremists on the right.
I banned you from my Substack for unhinged spamming and now you're following me around to my guest posts on other people's Substacks? Suffice it to say, you're not well. I can't be any more clear: please leave me alone and stop trying to engage my writings with your diatribes. Please stop and go elsewhere on the internet. Is that clear enough? Thank you.
Whoever that was, they're not the only problem commenter on Substack. Whoever designed Substack made a grave error when they failed to give commenters the ability to block other obnoxious and persistent commenters. If Substack has published terms of use or defined the role of moderators, I've not been able to locate where.
Are these rights as secure as you assume? That was the only red flag in an otherwise excellent piece. Ironically, the promotion of bizarre gender woo is the biggest threat to LGBbrihhts st the monent
You're quite right, there's no guarantee that our basic rights are secure at all. All the more reason we need to hold the line and maintain sanity in this increasingly murky area of civil rights.
It's the *perception* that LGB and T rights are no longer a fresh new frontier, that they're becoming established in the firmament, that is driving these orgs to grasp at gender fundamentalist extremism to keep their donor bases energized.
When the Bostock ruling came out, the final brick in an exquisite legal edifice DECADES in the making, the tone at GLAAD, for example, was not one of celebration but of panic: "Don't worry, folks! Nothing to see here! We're still business as usual! Plenty more activism to pitch you!"
This is very funny. SPLC has needed a takedown for a long time. I'm sorry it has to come pertaining to issues which most people will consider marginal and basically harmless. "They're just supporting progressive causes," people will say.
There is also the Human Rights Watch that has gone woke. I have taken all those off my list of charities.
ACLU, HRW,Planned Parenthood, SPLC.. and many others! I check on what they say about trans ideology and then drop them! Lots of other charities out there now that are doing good work to help people and animals! .. without focusing on trans! Besides ,,the trans cult gets millions and millions from people who are pushing their agenda!
Yep. Activist nonprofits that succeed with their initial goals are very vulnerable to losing their way and succumbing to the grift temptation. Saul Alinsky talks a bit about this in Reveille for Radicals/Rules for Radicals, how the Back of the Yards movement in Chicago became corrupt after its initial successes.
SPLC did great work against the Klan back in the day. But now? Grift.
How dare they make a chart omitting trans widows! I'm insulted, just "crushed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxJhFbqL_KU&t=8s
By the same token, organizations whose aim it is to roll back the excesses of gender identity ideology would do well to avoid energizing their bases by allying with extremists on the right.
I banned you from my Substack for unhinged spamming and now you're following me around to my guest posts on other people's Substacks? Suffice it to say, you're not well. I can't be any more clear: please leave me alone and stop trying to engage my writings with your diatribes. Please stop and go elsewhere on the internet. Is that clear enough? Thank you.
Whoever that was, they're not the only problem commenter on Substack. Whoever designed Substack made a grave error when they failed to give commenters the ability to block other obnoxious and persistent commenters. If Substack has published terms of use or defined the role of moderators, I've not been able to locate where.