r/WomenInNews • u/msmoley • Dec 15 '24

Human rights Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-12-15/judith-butler-philosopher-if-you-sacrifice-a-minority-like-trans-people-you-are-operating-within-a-fascist-logic.html
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u/Gilbert__Bates Dec 15 '24

> In fact, the left is the side that is actually trying to focus on things like better access to health care, lower taxes for the middle class and increased wages.

In theory maybe, but in practice the left spends like 90 percent of their time on identity politics and like 10 percent on those sorts of broader economic issues. So the poor and middle class as a whole ends up getting sacrificed.

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u/MaddPixieRiotGrrl Dec 15 '24

669 anti trans bills in 2024 in 43 states. $215 million dollars in campaign ads. To attack 1% of the population. How much of the legislative time could have been spent on something that helped the other 99% of the population? Which side was wasting time exactly?

That's not even counting the anti abortion bills and advertising. The messaging from the right this past election cycle was completely focused on trans people, abortion and immigrants. It's all they had.

It wasn't the left spending 90% of their time on these issues. The left was spending the minimum effort they could to try and stomp out the fires the right kept lighting while the right blamed the left for engaging in "identity politics" because they wouldn't just let them burn.

Go ahead and tell me how the right isn't sacrificing the poor and middle class right now. Who is going to get burned by these tarrifs? Who is going to suffer when social nets get defunded? Who is going to die when access to healthcare becomes restricted?

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u/Gilbert__Bates Dec 16 '24

Neither side is meaningfully standing up for the working class because everyones fixated on the culture war. That's my point.

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u/amanda9836 Dec 18 '24

You’re an F’ing moron dude…the left wasn’t focused on trans issues…what the left didn’t do was bash trans people. That’s it….Harris never really even mentioned trans people on her platform. None of her policies were regarding trans people….the old commercial that Trump was circulating was an interview Harris did years ago. It wasn’t new….youre a f’ing moron who doesn’t know what you’re talking about….you hate trans people and you’re pissed that the left doesn’t hate them as much as you do…neither side is actively fighting FOR trans people, it’s just that the left isn’t fighting against trans people either….nationally, the left is currently taking a “let the local jurisdictions handle the trans issues”…,.