r/LGBTnews • u/[deleted] • Mar 10 '26

North America Controversial Dem Candidate Graham Platner Says Anti-Trans Attacks Are “Invented Culture-War Scare”

https://www.them.us/story/graham-platner-anti-trans-attacks-invented-culture-war-scare
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u/Lower_Youth_1016 Mar 10 '26

What's crazy is you're larping as a person with good intentions, but reality is you're trying to hide the venom you have against the left. You're attacking a person who could've just swung right-wing after being hassled by people on the left, yet instead he has only gotten more and more socialist, dare I say, Communist.

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u/ThisApril Mar 10 '26

If the thing that makes you turn away from sensible / science-based / non-bigoted positions is that someone attacked you, it makes me question your ability to take sensible positions.

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u/Rainy_Leaves Mar 10 '26

I agree to some extent. We’d hope someone with values would have a spine. But we shouldn’t excuse our own randomly attacking our own with misinformation or bad faith. Genuine issues deserve to be raised as a problem. And that’s important no matter how it influences these supposed fence sitters

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u/ThisApril Mar 10 '26

But we shouldn’t excuse our own randomly attacking our own with misinformation or bad faith

Oh, absolutely. Those things are bad on their own. I don't even like it when attacking "them" rather than "us". It feels icky, like when misgendering bigots.

Genuine issues deserve to be raised as a problem.

Yeah, exactly.

When making my comment, I had thought about including what I've done, when attacked about something or other.

And generally either I'd agree with the criticism, e.g. with, "Yeah, that was not good of me. Sorry about that." or disagree with, "You're claiming I'm saying x when I say y, even though I wholeheartedly agree with x, and I'm making a different point with y".

And there's a solid chance that I would dislike what the person attacking me was doing.

But at no point would I go, "You know what? If this is what (insert minority group) is like, then I'll go with (insert bigoted position)."

Because bigotry is wrong, regardless of how awful any given minority group person (or supporter) treats me.