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Talk to trans people about how they feel about lumping anti-trans views into the “transphile” category because rather than being hated outright, chasers simply prey on trans individuals and undermine their gender identity in a sickeningly fetishizing way.

Just touch grass.

I’m not stupid, I know it means “fear of.” Do you think Homophobes are “afraid” of gay people? What abiut transphobes? In the context of bigotry, phobia is used to refer to invalidating or undermining ones sexuality, gender identity, etc.

Literally talk to a trans person, or just read through that thread, it isn’t difficult.

I wrote a lot more than 1 sentence in the beginning and linked a good thread with a bunch of trans individuals discussing said topic. They aren’t adding anything, just playing semantics with philic vs phobic.

Did you read the original reddit thread? Chasers are dangerous to the trans community. It isn’t about being attracted to trans individuals, it’s about specifically seeking them out for being trans and fetishizing them being trans.

Can you not see how this may look if you are the trans person in this relationship?

Fetishizing is also phobic.

You don’t understand how undermining someone’s gender identity by focusing on them being trans over them being their expressed gender is transphobic?

No, chasers are people that specifically fetishize transwomen or transmen for being trans.

Because chasers undermine the expressed gender identity of trans individuals for the sake of their own sexual pleasure. Calling it “transphilic” is just semantical wordplay that dismisses the inherently predatory nature of chasers.

No, I’m saying liberal politicians use the word correctly but view themselves as progressive, same with liberal citizenry. Nobody calls themselves a Liberal but is actually a Socialist or anything.

Because the US doesn’t use the term differently, US Liberals view themselves differently.

I’m not “pushing” anything. Liberals are Liberals, pretending Liberals aren’t Liberals is goofy.

Liberal = Liberal, yes.

Liberalism is the dominant ideology of Capitalism, Capitalism the the dominant economic structure.

To be clear, being a chaser is transphobic.

Both sides in the US support Capitalism, but the far-right is far more populist.

I am not trying to blur the difference between the Democrats and Republicans.

Yes it does. The Liberals in the US support Liberalism. Calling someone a Liberal means they support Liberalism in the US.

If by “here”, u mean lemmy, then yes. They were hexbear ppl.

I meant here as in this thread, otherwise your comment wouldn’t make sense in context.

Socialism is the transitory state to communism. I believe in the communist utopia and I believe that this cooperative kind of market socialism will lead us there.

Socialism is only a transitional state towards Communism if you restructute the state entirely to eliminate the tendency for Market Economies to liberalize as competing elements monopolize. Coops are good within Capitalism but certainly aren’t the road to Communism themselves.

I would disagree there. I would love to explain why, but I’m really tired right now to type much stuff out. Ik it’s a cop out. I’m sorry.

That’s fine. If you want to read more, Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution is a great essay on why the vast majority of Socialists and Communists are revolutionary.

Eh… Most socialists where I’m from have such views. MLs are in fact the rarity in my experience offline.

You likely live in an area with more liberals than Socialists, so the views of Socialists will trend towards those that fit the nicest with Liberalism, or pose the least danger to the status quo historically. That doesn’t make you a liberal, but at a global scale Marxist-Leninists make up the vast majority of leftists.

Additionally, not all revolutionary Socialists are Marxist-Leninists. Anarchists, Ultraleftists, Syndicalists, Council Communists, and many Market Socialists are Revolutionary. Again, reading Luxemburg is a great path to understanding why that is.

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Seems to me like you just have no way to address the arguments I raised and just resort to endless ad-hominem as a frustrated way to deflect, but whatever. Have a good day.

How did I completely misunderstand both Marx and your own arguments? Saying “no u” and calling me a clown isn’t how you win an argument.