The poll indicates support for the more aggressive position Newsom has taken in standing up to Donald Trump, particularly over a plan by Republicans in Texas to redraw their state's congressional seat map in the hopes of winning more seats in midterm elections next year.

The battle to become the 2028 presidential election candidate will likely set the new direction for the Democratic Party as it struggles with net favorability at what one recent poll showed to be a three-year low. Newsom has not formally announced his candidacy.

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[–] 0 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

I removed it because you’re engaging in transphobic dog whistles

I'm not because I'm not transphobic and I don't hate trans people at all. I just have a political disagreement with you about athletics.

They want to eliminate trans people, full stop.

Okay maybe some of them do. But I don't. I just have a simple political disagreement with you about athletics.

It all boils down to they don’t want trans people to exist, and if you start buying one piece of it, you buy all of it.

I am proof that your slippery slope assumption is definitely false. There is a 0% chance that I am ever going to hate trans people. I just have a simple political disagreement with you about athletics. And if you don't think there are other people here who have the same opinion, you're wrong. By shutting down the discussion, you are depriving everybody of the opportunity to learn more and maybe have their minds changed. As a mod you should be trying very hard not to create an echo chamber. Or else explicitly list this opinion and any other opinions that people are not allowed to have here.

It’s the trans equivalent of what got Jimmy The Greek fired back in 1988

You arguing that having an athletics disagreement is the equivalent of "wanting to eliminate trans people" sounds to me like the equivalent of conservatives saying that wanting common sense gun regulations is the equivalent of "wanting to take your gun from you". i.e. You're taking a mild position and translating that into the most extreme position possible. That's not something I want to see in a regular commenter, let alone a mod with the ability to silence people with disagreeable opinions.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    https://transactual.org.uk/transphobia/

    f) Tacit transphobia is still transphobia. 

    Actions designed to harm or take away trans people’s human rights are still transphobic even when not expressed in explicitly transphobic language, or not expressed in language at all. This tacit transphobia is often referred to as ‘dogwhistle’ transphobia. For example, one UK based transphobic hate group bought  a full page advert which read: ‘Woman: an adult human female.’ The statement itself is not transphobic, but when the context for the statement is that the group in question believe that trans women can never be female the transphobic intent is clear. Similarly, when a football ‘fan’ throws a banana at a black player during a match, the racist intent is clear even though bananas are not inherently racist.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (7 children)

    @jordanlund @btaf45 A woman is an adult human female. If you claim otherwise, you are - at best - twisting language.This is not the same as throwing a banana at a black person as it does not promote stereotypes."You are not a woman" is not hate speech, because no one thinks men are inferior to women. "You are a monkey" usually is, because humans are - whether rightly or wrongly - generally considered superior to non-human animals.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    "You are not a woman" is, in fact, hate speech. It's an attempt to deny someones identity in a situation where acknowledging their identity is vital to their health and well being.

    It shows a callous disregard for the other person and their future existence which is why it will not be tolerated.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (5 children)

    @jordanlund If I identify as a cat, is calling me a human hate speech?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Being disingenuous is not an identity.

    But hey, I'm open minded. If you undergo hormone therapy for a year to change your species and live as a cat 24/7 that can be respected.

    Of course you'd have to stop using human language and the Internet...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    @jordanlund I don't think hormones can change your species. They would be much better at changing sex but I don't think we have the technology to fully change sex yet.Hormone therapy just changes your appearance IIRC. It can't give you a functional womb, ovaries, or testes. And it can't make you produce functional opposite sized gametes.1/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    @jordanlund If it did, I might be more comfortable referring to trans people who have undergone such an operation as their adopted sex.But it HAS to not be forced. That is NON NEGOTIABLE.end/

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    pretty heavy handed. can't say i like this or agree with you equating it with racism.

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