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Comment by snotrockets

5 days ago

> you feel Musk is aligned with the far right

It's not a feel, it's real (unless you're so far to the right yourself, you don't consider the AfD, neo-nazis, TERFs, etc etc such)

TERFs (trans-exclusionary radical feminists) are generally left-wing, despite holding a reactionary view on trans people. That sort of comes with the territory of being a radical feminist. If someone is right-wing, or even just a centrist liberal feminist, then they're just an ordinary transphobe, not a TERF.

  • While you may be right by academic classification, most TERF studies I've seen and most notable TERF accounts on X are almost exclusively far right-wing, because it is an inherently conservative stance even if the grounding starting position is more socially progressive.

  • TERFs outed themselves as exclusionary. As such, they can't be left wing, even if they would like to align with it on some other principles. You can't be humanistic only towards some humans.

    • We're "exclusionary" in the sense that we want males be excluded from spaces intended for women and girls, yes. This is entirely compatible with left-wing political views.

      Really, this should be uncontroversial.

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  • No. Even asking this question requires either bad faith or being in a coma for the last few years

    He has endorsed the neo-nazi party in Germany

  • If "I think we need to massively curtail people's liberty in order to remove our enemies and establish a white national ethnostate" vs "we need to stop those guys" is your idea of "ape tribalism" then I'm not sure that you're really available for reasonable discussion here.

    • Weird of you to compare thr ultra far right with left wing instead of the ultra left and assume that I'm the one arguing in bad faith. Who here did you see advocateing for a 'white national ethnostate"? You must be off your meds.

      All you do is spin your own narrative to justify censorship of anything remotely right wing as being ultra right wing and crush free speech. That's why Trump won and Dems lost. This ignorance and self righteousness.

  • No, why would it be?

    EDIT: the comment I’m replying to was edited at least 3 times since I posted this reply