Even if you live in a western country you do all of that anyway. Self-censor at work and online so I don’t get fired or banned from w/e.
Accept elected officials whose policies don’t match up with popular opinion and accept standard employment hierarchy.
That's very different than worrying about going to jail for life or getting disappeared.
So what? Lose your job, lose your housing.
Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot.
> Prison is at least 3 hots and a cot.
Decent prison conditions tend to overlap with countries with decent human rights.
IN authoritarian countries you might very well be starved or tortured in prison.
You might also just disappear and your body may or may not be found in an identifiable state.
Some people value freedom more than comfort.
What freedom?
Anything that can’t be done while in prison, for starters.
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This hyperbolic take hurts your causes more than helps them.
I'm against extrajudicial deportations to El Salvador, but those people are not being deported for their political opinions.
As for trans/LGBTQ+ genocide, it does not exist in the West.
Repeatedly denying GAC or banning PrEP as Republicans try to do every few months does indeed lead to death, yes.
Granted we're not under Reagan, but Republicans are practically praying for another AIDS crisis and doing everything in their power to make it happen.
Straight people largely don't know this because, well, it's not their problem.
Calling this genocide is ridiculous levels of hyperbole
This sort of nonsense is why many people do not take LGBT issues very seriously
If there was an LGBT genocide happening in America, there would not be open pride celebrations, come on
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How is that genocide? No one is being killed, no culture is being erased, no community is being wiped out. People might be persuaded to change their viewpoints but they are not forced to or sent to re-education camps.
This seems identical to saying that convincing someone with anorexia that they aren't overweight is "social death", and "social death" is (somehow) genocide.
I.e. it's nonsense.
Using the same word “genocide” for what is happening in Gaza and what is happening in the US seems to make language pretty useless.
To say nothing of using the same word as what happened in the holocaust or to the Armenians or native Americans or Rwanda or is happening in Xinjiang....
This is what I have been saying for years. The far-left progressives have literally raped language beyond all recognition.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Men are women.
The obvious difference is that people with anorexia die and people who transition live happily.
Uh, some do.
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dysphoria is certainly a mental illness, transitioning is merely one possible treatment for it (though, pushed as one of the first rather than as one of the last options, which I personally find concerning.)
Body dysphoria is a recognised mental illness.
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Being gay is not generally recognised as mental illness, although it has been in the past. Being trans is less well defined (historically even being gay was not well defined, or defined the same way).