Last night there was an event which appears to have started with an altercation between a trans woman and some other people in Portland
There is some very disturbing video circulating from it
BE AWARE THAT VIDEO HAS BEEN HEAVILY EDITED
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The longest version circulating is exactly 2 minutes and 21 seconds long. The precise max length for a video uploaded to Twitter. It has TWELVE video cuts where content was sliced out.
If you watch closely you will discover half the component clips are under 6 seconds long \2
The video is *sourced* from extreme rightwing accounts who edited it from a livestream they captured
They sliced and diced it to make it tell a 'BLM mob attacks and robs trans woman without provocation' story \3
If you watch it closely the REAL story is much more complicated
They were clearly trying to *deescalate* it with her and were *asking her to leave*. She pulled a weapon at least once on them and the first thing they took from her *was the weapon*. \4
It appears to have escalated from there until it finally reached the point of her backpack and longboard being taken.
*And we don't know what happened after that with her because it was edited out* \5
Unless and until THE UNEDITED VIDEO surfaces we don't actually know what happened \6
What we DO know is that the SOURCES of the video HAVE PUBLISHED DECEPTIVELY EDITED VIDEOS BEFORE \7
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This thread is about how the US media utterly whitewashes racism as the a huge component of the Republican party and more specifically as the main factor behind the Trump's success with White, rural, voters.
So buckle up. \1
If you read the @CNN article it presents a narrative about how economics have driven voters in Brantley County, Georgia towards the Republican party and about how friendly Republican voters and Democrat voters there are to each other.
An argument used by the LGB Alliance et al is that modern trans people are "transing" historical figures
That Queens were REALLY homosexuals - not transsexuals. But they ignore that the distinction between homosexuals and transsexuals was not nearly as clean as they assert \1
Daily News (New York, New York), 1970-08-23
"Queen: Most feminine type of homosexual. See himself as a female. Plays feminine role in sexual relations. He's the caricature of a normal woman."
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The Atlanta Constitution (Atlanta, Georgia), 1966-01-07
'1. The "narcissistic" homosexual is "nelly . . . swishy." He is effeminate and identifies himself as a woman. His emotions stopped maturing at a very early age.'
LGB Alliance now contends that Gary Powell was not a founder of their organization, apparently on the theory that because his name doesn't appear on the officers list at founding, he isn't a founder
Despite having been involved in the launch and pre-launch
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I was digging through the historical records for Stonewall and found their 1989 incorporation document. Simon Fanshawe doesn't appear in it anywhere. He was appointed as an officer in *1997*
A newspaper article on Oct 29, 1993 mentions him and Stonewall...but separately \2
I DID find a document listing him as being PRESENT at the January 29, 1989 meeting of the Stonewall Group - pre-incorporation
"'Gay Rights' is a false term. No person has the civil right to go around deceiving and tricking people nor can people be forced to accept something that's false or else. [...] Homosexuality is a religion not a race."
The Signal (Santa Clarita, California) 1991-08-12
"This is a violation against women, putting us in vulnerable situations, making us victims of unfair laws, putting us in the closet and afraid to speak because of persecution if we do not want to have a lesbian for a roommate."
"When I was young some girls were called tomboys. Today they would be told they are transgender...er...lesbians."
The Journal News (White Plains, New York) 1973-03-01
The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) 1990-10-21
* Homosexuals "recruit" by molesting children
* Gay people are mentally ill
* Gay men hate women; Lesbians hate men.
* Gay people want to turn heterosexuals into homosexuals.
* The only thing gay people think about is sex.