I am so sad to have called it back in goddamn september in e-mail conversations with a friend trying to convince me to
Friend: I am always thinking of the least advantaged in these contests, and I know for sure that LGBTQIA+ people, black and brown people, and women will all be threatened in different ways if Trump gets elected.
Me:
As soon as Kamala was endorsed by Biden and her coronation was assured, the Nytimes was already proffering advice on which groups to kick out of the lifeboat. Surprise, it’s Queer people. I quote:
- U.S. liberals have adopted some positions on gender issues that are out of the mainstream. Doctors in Europe, for example, believe the scientific evidence doesn’t support gender transition hormone treatment for many children. Most Americans agree — while also opposing discrimination against trans people. Many prominent Democrats are well to the public’s left on this subject. If Harris took a moderate position, she could undermine Republican claims that she is an elite cultural liberal. (nytimes)
If the Harris campaign takes this advice, which they might, given they’ve tried to outflank Republicans on immigration. How are they going to protect LGBTQIA+ individuals? Because it starts with trans kids, and genderqueer individuals, and looking the other way on book bans, and it devolves into whether gay marriage is too contentious, or that should it exist at all; the Supreme Court might overturn Obergefell, given all the dissent and concurrences written by Thomas, and Alito. The democrats are not effective at protecting rights. Because they do not want to be.
Doctors in Europe
“Doctors in Europe” jfc. “Professionals in Asia” believe that the swastika is completely fine decoration for your business.
Europe is a continent with a bunch of different countries with a wide spectrum of politics (from neoliberal succdems all the way to whatever Orban is!)
“Doctors in Europe”. Wtf kind of nothing-sentencen is that? “Doctors in Europe” also believe the opposite. “Religious officials in the US” believe in judaism.
What doctors though? Which ones specifically? Name them.
The only reason that the position that gender affirming care save lives is “left of the mainstream” if that is even true is because the right has unabashedly attacked trans people and convinced people that kamala wants to trans your children and all the illegals, with zero pushback.
The literal only reason left to for this lunatic is that, if a bill re establishing roe v wade comes to her desk, she will PROUDLY sign it into law. Whoop di fucking do
She’s also obviously trying to ride the fence here by not committing to trans rights. Fuck that.
Good to know laws are the immortal word of God, infallible and inherently correct. Not just something a few dipshits made in a room at some point. It’s not like slavery or anti-miscegenation used to be “the law” too
Not to mention the laws that would make Kamala only 3/5ths of a person and unable to vote. But hey, follow the law
The way people talk about the 3/5s compromise is weird to me. Slaves were still considered property and fully not citizens, it was just how they were counted on the census for the purpose of the House of Representatives (i.e. how many representatives slave states should get). The logical answer, considering slaves had no right to vote, is that the census should not count them as citizens for the purpose of a slave state’s representative count, and it was slavers pushing for them to be counted as though they were full citizens in a political power grab that was the problem. It was the positive, rather than negative, side of 3/5, i.e. the present 3/5 and not the absent 2/5, that represented an injustice to slaves. The compromise never should have been made because, for this purpose, they never should have been counted as citizens at all until they were freed, and the compromise strictly gave power to the slavers.
Incidentally, assuming Kamala lived in a free state (which her home state of California was), it wouldn’t apply to her at all, she’d just be a normal citizen.
Also, everyone knows laws come to us fully formed, inscribed on stone tablets from the top of a mountain
