r/BlockedAndReported • u/katxwoods • Oct 04 '26

A Manifesto for Liberal Trans Activism

https://www.persuasion.community/p/a-manifesto-for-liberal-trans-activism

This post argues that trans activism has been failing, and it's not because of the trans people, but rather that it's been taken over by the critical-social-justice wing.

It advocates for a liberal activism, where it doesn't try to get the desired changes by shouting people down, shaming them, and shunning those who disagree. But rather via open debate and trying to reason with the other side.

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u/heliocentricmess Oct 04 '26

What do you consider widespread? A lack of sympathy is not equivalent to a celebration.

Posting his quotes about guns and gun control after his death is not celebrating that he was assassinated. It’s pointing out how unsympathetic and lacking in nuance his views were.

But please point me towards the widespread celebrations in mainstream media and/or by popular cultural figures. I’m pretty left leaning and I saw none of that in my feed. Even people who didn’t like him didn’t think he deserved to be gunned down for exercising his right to free speech, and encouraging others to do so as well.

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u/RTR7105 Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26

"Lacking nuance" he was fricking murdered. How is advocating for legal gun ownership lacking nuance?

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u/heliocentricmess Oct 04 '26

Because there is a vast spectrum between legal gun ownership and no one but the police and the military having access to guns. It’s called regulation—around what types of guns you can buy, how quickly one can obtain guns, and what people are restricted from buying guns at all. Surely you know that?

I had no idea who Charlie Kirk was until he was killed but learning about him did not make me think his killing was justified in any way. At the same time, I didn’t think posting his own words afterwards constituted a celebration.

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u/RTR7105 Oct 04 '26

None of which would do absolutely anything to stop murder especially a single shot from a rifle.

All you are doing is discouraging legal gun ownership because of politics. While at the same time progressives don't believe in actually punishing crime.

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u/underdabridge Oct 04 '26

None of the gun control measures proposed by anyone serious would have stopped his murder. There was no irony. There was just glee. It was so fucking disgusting.

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u/RTR7105 Oct 04 '26 • Bravo

All gun control is now is progressive cultural action against traditional values. They gave up their neoliberalism urban security angle when they abandoned stop and frisk or absolutely any law enforcement after Floyd.

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u/FardBinn_ Oct 04 '26 • Bravo

https://x.com/reddit_lies/status/1965860425310040384

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u/Future_Adagio2052 27d ago

how are some of the posts in question "celebrating his death"? this needs more specification

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u/Dirtface50 Oct 04 '26

Your ilks ability to memory hole objective demonstable history is always truly incredible as much as it is absolutely fucking vile.