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The right has been using the writings of trans-exclusive radical feminists to justify their crusade. It’s not the first time the far left and far right have teamed up.
09.04.16 2:15 PM ET
When you read the Christian Right’s wacky, ignorant statements about transgender people, have you ever wondered where they get this stuff?
The answer, often, is feminists.
In fact, the surprising nexus between radical feminists and Christian Right culture warriors has been with us a long time. In the 1980s, anti-porn feminists like Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin teamed up with anti-porn conservatives like Edwin Meese, leading to the passage of laws censoring sexual speech in the name of protecting women. In the last decade, anti-prostitution feminists have joined forces with fundamentalist Christians to prosecute sex workers under the aegis of sex trafficking laws....
...A similar shell-game has recently arisen in the context of sex trafficking. Human trafficking, of course, is abhorrent, tragic, and evil. But the definition if it has recently been stretched so far that police are busting sex workers, not traffickers, often shipping them off to church-affiliated “re-education” programs like Arizona’s project ROSE.
This was a deliberate deception on the part of anti-sex activists like the anti-prostitution group Demand Abolition. As exposed by The Washington Post in 2014, that group’s internal document said that “framing the Campaign’s key target as sexual slavery might garner more support and less resistance, while framing the Campaign as combating prostitution may be less likely to mobilize similar levels of support.”
Naturally, fighting sex trafficking had long been a feminist (and human rights) issue. But fighting sex work in general has, like opposing trans rights, united radical feminists and religious conservatives—both of whom claim to be protecting women....
Radical Feminists and Conservative Christians Team Up Against Transgender People
When I first became politically aware about 5 years ago, I was struck by how often the far left and the centre right were aligned.
I first noticed it concerning mass immigration. The centre right profit from it economically and the far left, sociologically. And the fetish for non-whites christianists have is...well.i wish they'd leave it in the bedroom.
Then I noticed with sex work and porn how they were the same again. Of course I already knew this but it only really clicked after my political awakening.
Now we see it again with transgender issues.
What I think is that moderate left people and the so called far right should team up. Why not? they want the same things. Workers rights, good standard of living, freedom of debt slavery, freedom to live how they want to etc etc.
The entire West seems to have been boxed into a corner by the most aggressive females(radical feminists) and the most aggressive males( corporatist money grubbing assholes).
09.04.16 2:15 PM ET
When you read the Christian Right’s wacky, ignorant statements about transgender people, have you ever wondered where they get this stuff?
The answer, often, is feminists.
In fact, the surprising nexus between radical feminists and Christian Right culture warriors has been with us a long time. In the 1980s, anti-porn feminists like Catherine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin teamed up with anti-porn conservatives like Edwin Meese, leading to the passage of laws censoring sexual speech in the name of protecting women. In the last decade, anti-prostitution feminists have joined forces with fundamentalist Christians to prosecute sex workers under the aegis of sex trafficking laws....
...A similar shell-game has recently arisen in the context of sex trafficking. Human trafficking, of course, is abhorrent, tragic, and evil. But the definition if it has recently been stretched so far that police are busting sex workers, not traffickers, often shipping them off to church-affiliated “re-education” programs like Arizona’s project ROSE.
This was a deliberate deception on the part of anti-sex activists like the anti-prostitution group Demand Abolition. As exposed by The Washington Post in 2014, that group’s internal document said that “framing the Campaign’s key target as sexual slavery might garner more support and less resistance, while framing the Campaign as combating prostitution may be less likely to mobilize similar levels of support.”
Naturally, fighting sex trafficking had long been a feminist (and human rights) issue. But fighting sex work in general has, like opposing trans rights, united radical feminists and religious conservatives—both of whom claim to be protecting women....
Radical Feminists and Conservative Christians Team Up Against Transgender People
When I first became politically aware about 5 years ago, I was struck by how often the far left and the centre right were aligned.
I first noticed it concerning mass immigration. The centre right profit from it economically and the far left, sociologically. And the fetish for non-whites christianists have is...well.i wish they'd leave it in the bedroom.
Then I noticed with sex work and porn how they were the same again. Of course I already knew this but it only really clicked after my political awakening.
Now we see it again with transgender issues.
What I think is that moderate left people and the so called far right should team up. Why not? they want the same things. Workers rights, good standard of living, freedom of debt slavery, freedom to live how they want to etc etc.
The entire West seems to have been boxed into a corner by the most aggressive females(radical feminists) and the most aggressive males( corporatist money grubbing assholes).
