As the Kamala Harris campaign lurches rightward, pundits want us to believe she’s just following the will of the voters. The facts don’t bear that out.
  • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
    1511·
    5 months ago

    Affordable Care Act, LGBTQ rights, marijuana reform…not to mention a Black man was president, and a Black woman is the party nominee.

    Oh do lgbt people have more rights now? Oh fuck, I’ll let my trans refugee friends know.

    • mashbooq@lemmy.world
      156·
      5 months ago

      The fact that your trans refugee friends continue to suffer is deplorable, but does not mean lgbt don’t have more rights now. You’re employing the same fallacy that anti-vaxxers use when they say it’s pointless to get a vaccine when it doesn’t 100% guarantee protection from the illness. Things are better for some people and still desperately need to improve for many others.

      • OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml
        86·
        5 months ago

        The fact that your trans refugee friends continue to suffer is deplorable, but does not mean lgbt don’t have more rights now.

        Trans people are experiencing low key genocide but we also have more rights now?

        Things are better for some people and still desperately need to improve for many others.

        Things are desperately worse for some people and have improved slightly for others.

        Genocide of trans people > gay marriage on the impact on the queer community

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      5 months ago

      Yeah child, they do have more rights. Jesus fucking Christ. Let me take you back to the 80s and 90s with me. Trans people were so far in the closet we didn’t have that word. And if your were openly gay, which pretty much no one was, that was an ass beating.

      I’m sorry you’re an angry child with no historical perspective, but STFU, please. You little snots whimpering about change not being fast enough are making it worse. Your non-stop crying is giving the other side ammo.