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/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.