• Obituarykidney
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    19 days ago

    I think it’s a fair critique to make when it’s from someone who is historically both homophobic and anti-feminist, it’s pointing out the hypocrisy.

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      19 days ago

      All right wingers, and fascists specifically, are what we would consider to be hypocrites. But that’s part and parcel of their ideology: that rules only apply to the inferiors.

      To them, and to their followers, it’s a display of dominance and personal fortitude to be a hypocrite.

      People really should catch up on Sartre and Eco. They had these fuckers down pat over fifty years ago.

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      19 days ago

      Yes but the power imbalance is the main problem, hypocrisy is shitty but whatever. I think of how that would affect gay people at that point more than how that highlights her hypocrisy.

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        It’s the main problem in this recent development, but not the main issue with Boebert by a long shot. I still think it’s fair game for discussion, and I’m so far down the queer acronym that I’m usually just part of the +