QueerDefenseFront
LGBTQ+ rights are under attack across the world.
This a Community dedicated to the discussion of how to protect, advocate for, and restore LGBTQ rights!
With the rampant increase of Anti LGBTQ+ hate crimes, speech and laws internationally, the LGBTQ community globally no longer feels safe.
We refuse to stand by while injustice against our community reigns.
Here we will organize, and discuss ways to make our voices heard!
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- No Hate Speech
No Hate Speech allowed whatsoever. This is a O tolerance policy. This goes for any form of hate and/or bigotry regarding race, religion, or LGBTQ+ identities.
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Be better than how your enemies treat you.
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Respect the people who belong here. If you're confused what that means, here's a minor primer:
No asking to date trans people or otherwise meet up with them. No treating being transgender as a mental illness or as being lesser in any way. No arguing with trans people about their identity. No arguing with trans people about their vulnerabilities, including anything related to sports, laws, etc. This includes anything else that the mod team deems disrespectful.
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This Community is for news regarding, as well as the discussion of, anti LGBTQ+ laws, hate crimes, and propaganda.
- Bunnies are above the law
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Only a few days ago, a member of the Heritage foundation came out as transgender. Their collegues at the Heritage Foundation congratulated her - which would be a non-event if the Heritage Foundation wasn't the one think tank which pushes queerphobic and transphobic propaganda like no other.
That makes no sense, right? Why would the employees of one of the most transphobic propaganda machines out there accept the gender transition of anyone?
As paradoxical as it may seem on the surface, it's because queer-/transphobia is not principle by itself. It is only a piece of a larger puzzle that ultimately follows Wilhoit's law:
The in-group cannot do wrong. Period.
So who belongs to the in-group? Of course, the loyalists of the right-wing and whoever they consider to be one of their own (that may be subject to change, if you aren't loyal enough to the cause). Loyalty to the cause represents moral righteousness.
A trans employee at a transphobic propaganda machine? In-group! So it's fine. A rapist in the White House? In-group! No problem.
Sexual abusers in the police? In-group! No biggie!
But everybody who doesn't belong to the in-group (however vaguely it may be defined) needs to be controlled and oppressed by the harshest of laws. They are disloyal, therefore they cannot be moral and righteous, they have to be immoral and therefore deserve punishment.
Queer-/Transphobia is one way how that conviction manifests: It is the accusation that the behavior of queer people (outside the in-group) is inherently immoral because these people cannot be moral. If they were, they would belong to the in-group after all, but they don't, so whatever hatred one shows them is justified.