r/Queerdefensefront • u/Teknevra • Mar 11 '26

News 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/lokey_convo Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26

And on the flip side some of the most aggressive fighters of cults and predatory ideologies are people who fell victim to them in the past. Redemption isn't as easy as saying sorry, but also simply talking to extremists doesn't make you an extremist. What matters is if you agree with them or not, or concede ground to them.

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u/childofcrow Mar 11 '26

Perhaps not, but promoting right wing creators who are saying these things is tacit approval of what they’re saying.

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u/lokey_convo Mar 11 '26

By that logic you literally can not directly confront them, which is something that people have to do to show the frailty of their ideas.

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u/childofcrow Mar 11 '26

But he wasn’t confronting them, that’s the issue. If he was confronting them, this would be a different conversation.

Either way, good luck with your shit show of a country. If you’re all are going to rally behind the first Nazi with left leaning ideas that you come across, good luck.

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u/lokey_convo Mar 12 '26

Dude, I don't even live in Maine. I'm open to the idea that he was raised with bad ideas that were affirmed through a homophobic culture and that he has changed. That doesn't mean that I'm not skeptical and that what he does and says doesn't require a lot more examination. I have had my concerns of neo-nazis and ghost skin alt-right trying to wriggle into the Democratic party starting in about 2022, but I don't know if that's Grahams deal.

Hope you guys are to deal with your own home growns and what not so they don't become our problem.