[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Soldier Boy

If the point needed proving any further, there it is .

I could equally say that tribally-focussed culture warriors are more concerned with image -- not self image, but their image in the eyes of the collective they've chosen to align with, and so they'' (ironically, given the left's current focus on individualism) forego anything resembling original thought in favour of toeing the palatable prescribed rhetoric of their peers.

If I was "just concerned with looking good" I would slap on the blinkers and dogmatically repeat the same social justice rhetoric as everyone else instead of pointing out where I find it inaccurate and think it falls flat. I'm all for people disagreeing with that if they can do it with any sort of backing and not just an angry screech. It highlights the glaring lack of any real viable counter-point. "I know why you're wrong but I can't be bothered to evidence that, bigot!". You'd paint yourself as part of the solution with that stance ... or maybe not, maybe just go with the "Pfft, I am too jaded to concern myself with thoughts of solutions, I'm happy just making the bigots uncomfortable " ... and then accuse OTHERS of self-aggrandising pageantry for trying to have an actual discussion? Really an unfathomable lack of self awareness.

More bull**** prompted by the fact you're hurt that I'm not wowed by your shallow centrism.

Trying to make out that I'm tribalistic and lack self awareness is ultimately an own goal on your part. You have to keep making out that 'both sides' are beneath you to inflate your ego when in truth you identify with one side more than the other but it's all about your self-image so you delude yourself about your views to try to seem like you're operating from a neutral perspective when you aren't.

At the end of the day, I know bull**** when I see it, and centrists reek of it, and they always have. It's all about them trying to impress people with a level of intellect that isn't there. Centrists are just people suffering with delusions of grandeur and main character syndrome.

And transphobia is bigotry, if I was to take what you wrote before about gender and changed the words to equal terms representing race, you would be seen as a racist, what makes you think that it's not bigotry to approach gender in a similar fashion? Ego, that's what.

You're also engaging in more pageantry for the right wing side by making out that any opposition to transphobia is somehow not valid and is just pageantry in itself. Because any views that oppose yours can't be valid, right? Really an unfathomable lack of self awareness.