Breaking radio silence because of US election.

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.


\2cnn.com/2024/10/14/pol…

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."

\2

A question

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

\1 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

Longview News-Journal (Longview, Texas) 2018-01-19

"'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."

This week's transphobic talking point is "there is barely any trans hate crime in the UK"

And, as usual, it is complete bollocks \1 They are conflating *CONVICTIONS* with *CRIMES*

The problem is that they are orders of magnitude different because the UK is absolute shite at *prosecuting* hate crimes against trans people \2

"It is a medical and biological fact"

The Gazette (Cedar Rapids, Iowa), 2005-03-06 "They're *stealing our words*!!!!!"

News-Journal (Mansfield, Ohio) 1988-05-22

Self-id is bad...m'kay?

The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas), 1973-01-26

"Self-Appraisal Harmful - 'Homosexual' a Label, Often in Error"

"There is no such thing as a homosexual"

"You should see a psychiatrists and let him sort out and identify your real problem." NATIONAL JOURNAL OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION LAW, VOL. 1, ISSUE 1, 1995
DEATH PENALTY FOR LESBIANS

"You are condeming them to a lifetime of medical misery and even death if you support them!"

The Miami Herald (Miami, Florida), 1998-07-27 Self-id is bad...m'kay?

The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas), 1973-01-26

"Self-Appraisal Harmful - 'Homosexual' a Label, Often in Error"

"There is no such thing as a homosexual"

"You should see a psychiatrists and let him sort out and identify your real problem."

Ok. Because the discovery that Twitter prefers white faces to Black faces in it's preview clipping has scratched my curiosity this is going to be a thread of images for Twitter to clip to see if we can derive how it thinks

This is an example of the issue

https://twitter.com/bascule/status/1307440596668182528

So, given a white face and a Black face in that example it is *consistently* choosing the white face for the preview.

Now, from curiosity, I'm trying it with a face and a not face (a tree in this case)

#ifirstknewIwasLGBTQ

I was 11 or 12. Living in a conservative, religious, semi-rural Utah town (population 27K - having grown from 5K only 10 years earlier - there were 80 acres of farm in front of my house)

I literally did not know of even ONE out LGBTQ+ person in my town \1

https://twitter.com/stonewalluk/status/1303305440009256962

Lacking ANY role models, information, or words to describe my feelings

But I knew that changing in the locker room for PE made me intensely uncomfortable. To the point where, without explanation, the school allowed me to change in the visiting team locker room for privacy \2

"Homosexuals are narcissists!"

"Homosexuals suffer from AutoAndroPhilia/AutoGynePhilia!"

History and Psyche pp 49-67
The Narcissistic Homosexual: Genealogy of a Myth
link.springer.com/chapter/10.105… "known lesbians be completely isolated from the others"

The Daily News (New York, NY) 1965-12-07
Grand jury investigation into the Women's House of Detention

I really do blame Twitter for making it so much harder to mass block accounts

It took me almost a full day to block the medium sized (12K+) account who's followers were trying to dogpile my mentions \1 Twitter broke 'Block Chain' several months ago by force-logging-out your session if you quickly blocked slightly more than 500 accounts. I found an alternative called 'Chain Block' (only available for Chrome) that tries to slide under the 500 block limit per run \2

This raises memories of my father cutting off my allowance (a massive $3/week - 40 years ago so inflation adjusted it would be about $9) when I was around 14 or 15 to try and force me to go to church

He was furious when I shrugged my shoulders and still refused to go to church

https://twitter.com/hemantmehta/status/1296865536266006528

Later he offered to pay for college - but ONLY if I went to a private religious college (BYU)

I declined his offer

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

\1 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

If you are a highly paid tech worker, don't fool yourself into believing that IF THEY COULD tech companies wouldn't pay you minimum wage. \1 They absolutely would pay you $7.25 an hour in a heartbeat if they thought they could.

Your skills are NOT more valuable to the company than low paid support staff. It is just harder to find a replacement if you quit. \2

The obvious alternative explanation for having a noose sign on a third bathroom is even worse

"I'm not transphobic! I'm a raging racist!" And by the way? Please report them for targeted hate speech

After trying to cast even the discussion of the possibility of trans women being allowed uterine transplants as just like the Nazis, Edwina Wolstencroft locked her account

But not before Google saved some of the other transphobic material she's shared

web.archive.org/web/2020081209… Google cache is really good for recovering stuff people want to 'disappear'

The 'new' talking point among the Republicans is that because there may be 10 times as many actual COVID-19 cases in the US as reported by the CDC, that means the death rate for it is low enough not to worry about

They are half-right - and all wrong \1 There have been just under 4 million reported COVID-19 cases in the US. And 143 thousand reported deaths (which is known to be an under-reporting of deaths because of the 'excess mortality' statistics)

That is a reported death rate of 3.6% of reported cases \2

Lesbian Teen Reveals She Was Forced To Use Boys’ Locker Room, Rest Room In British LGBT Youth Clip (HuffPost) 2012-01-12
huffpost.com/entry/uk-lgbt-… Red Deer Advocate (Red Deer, Alberta, Canada), 17 Jun 2002

"From kindergarten class on, our children, your grandchildren are being strategically targeted, psychologically abused and brainwashed by homosexual and pro-homosexual educators."

When socially powerful people with huge platforms complain about "being canceled" what they mean is "How dare you criticize me for expressing awful opinions: Criticism is reserved for attacking the socially powerless for not agreeing with my awful opinions."

#CancelCulture Free speech means you are free to say something without the government punishing you for it

It does NOT mean you are immune from other people using their own free speech to criticize or oppose you

Police Oppose...Aid to Capital Rape Crisis Center (SacBee, CA) 1974-07-10
"victims would be using this facility at a time when they have been physically and emotionally abused by a man and they would possibly be vulnerable to suggestions from women regarding lesbian activities." Lesbian Teen Reveals She Was Forced To Use Boys’ Locker Room, Rest Room In British LGBT Youth Clip (HuffPost) 2012-01-12
huffpost.com/entry/uk-lgbt-…