Aspirational Democratic Congresswoman Brianna Wu: Tankies and transwomen are killing leftism [CW: Transphobia]
Aspirational Democratic Congresswoman Brianna Wu: Tankies and transwomen are killing leftism [CW: Transphobia]
Good.
If your "leftism" is being destroyed by the fact that trans people and tankies exist then it needs to die.
All of liberal politics is projection.
This is aneurism bingo
Lib: "bernie bros are transphobic"
Same lib: "if you're not super hot, maybe dress normally and don't present yourself as a transvestite"
Can we take a moment to acknowledge how astonishingly sexist and misogynistic this comment is? (Since you've already covered the transphobia angle here.)
She's telling a woman that if she isn't meeting her personal standards of beauty then she needs to cover up and dress in a way that suits her preference. She's literally body-shaming a woman and policing her self expression.
I would put money on Wu absolutely castigating a man who was in her presence if he said something like "Disgusting! Cover yourself up and show some decency. Women like you have no right to dress that way in public!!" to a woman and yet here she is doing this very thing to a trans woman.
Imagine having the audacity to complain about sexism and transphobia when you're clearly a very willing proponent of it, simply because you see trans women as being lesser than other women. (Opportunistic Feminists Don't Abandon Your Principles When Encountering a Trans Woman Challenge [impossible])
There's a special place in the gulag for people like Brianna Wu.
I have data showing that a significant portion of it was Russia trying to divide us
“I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.”
unfortunate tenancy
landlord says what?
I have data
how is it this common that a person's ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not? It's like the central dividing line in who people are. Every single time someone talks about tankies, or the left going too far, or blah blah, they're coming from a position of transphobia. It consumed them. My brain is gonna explode.
how is it this common that a person's ideology comes down to being a transphobe or not?
Transphobia is on the borderline of being a socially permissive form of bigotry, which makes it a litmus test ideal for revealing the people who aren't open about being fascists, but still share the complete emotional and moral desolation and the political sadism of the mask-off fascists. Checking if somebody is a transphobe flushes out the ones who are too chickenshit to be, say, outright racists. Although Wu's comments about BLM in the linked tweets make me assume she's also an anti-black racist who merely had the instinct not to be open about her views in 2020.
Diehard Democrats need a scapegoat because without one they are left with the painfully uncomfortable realisation that the DNC exists in a parasitical relationship with the GOP and that, in a shocking number of situations, their party would prefer a Republican victory because it provides the Democrats with huge opportunities for shifting further to the right, for preferencing the interests of capital instead of needing to make small concessions to the working class, and of course for fundraising.
So naturally it's the tankies and the trans people and the Russian bots who are ruining the so-called left. They need this to be true in order to diffuse the cognitive dissonance they experience by being a Democrat supporter.
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I hate being in the middle of all this. These people need to get firmly out of my life
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First time hearing of this person. She is a middle aged woman who hangs out with V**sh? I don't understand honestly. Screw her anyway though.
Lmao what a loser
She is a middle aged woman who hangs out with V**sh?
Yeah, it's a bit odd. She's definitely not Va*sh's target demographic.
Do NOT read her linked tweets if transphobia is in any way a trigger issue for you. Seriously. It's honestly almost what i would have suspected from somebody who hangs out with V*ush, but still, this is pit material.
Death to all transphobes, no exceptions, particularly not for this traitor.
If I’m willing to throw Paul Cockschott in the pit (and I am, even acknowledging how much he has helped me understand Marxism), then I sure as hell ain’t making an exception for this rando.
Hey wait a minute I'm both of those
You just killed leftism singlehandedly /s
Only if she got to it before me.
update: trans people are too attractive for beauty contests, too smart to play chess, too strong, tall, and fast to be a professional athlete, always have the moral high ground, can cause floods, alter the environment of the planet single handedly, are single handedly destroying leftism, and can kill god.
One of the most cynical people I have witnessed, simultaneously issuing nakedly insincere half-apologies about how its wrong to be mean(transphobic) to people just because of online beef, while also openly liking tweets that are just people posting "I love transphobia and Brianna Wu! She's epic based and said nothing wrong!" as if she's pretending to be unaware that people can just see what she likes on twitter.
Offering a shit sandwich apology then spitting in it right in front of everyone for good measure, just to add insult.
With that in mind it's really no wonder why she was the ideal Dem candidate
Autism compels me to encourage accuracy here, she was an outsider candidate that didnt even make the Ballot: https://ballotpedia.org/Brianna_Wu (running against the worst Massachusets represnative as well, and positioning herself as a progressive alternative)
Her profile says "former candidate" so I dont think she's running again, and Stephen Lynch hasn't retired or anything.
i love that dems are copying labour, this rules. i love having the liberals trying to outflank the conservatives on transphobia and red scare tactics
Dems aren't doing that. They're doing the age-old "you want to put all trans people in camps, so let's compromise and just kill some". This person is just starting their right wing grift arc like Sameera Khan
Brianna Wu hardly represents the establishment party line though. Not that I'm saying its much different, I just want to clarify that Wu was an outsider candidate that didnt even make the Ballot.
Honestly while I haven't followed her political career if I could make a guess the good news is her campaign won't get anywhere. Internet weirdos really think they can take on a democratic party political machine but I'm sure there's gonna be an establishment democrat or two that's gonna see that some internet weirdo is their main left-wing primary component and is gonna say "Game" and flood the race with money so hard that I'd be surprised if she gets a double digit primary vote.
Even if she does win, unless she's in a safe state then I'm sure she'll get cut off by the DNC for daring to run against their anointed democrat and will get absolutely smashed by a car dealership owner.
This was my first impression before even googling her, I wonder how close/far my speculation is to the truth
I was wrong about her being in district where she could lose to a republican but yeah I was right. Every medium sized half-urbanized area has "The Progressive Crank" that takes all of the air out of the room when it comes to forming an electoral opposition to the maineline democrat. My city's version of this is a local progressive who is well liked by some parts of the labor movement but the rest of the left stays away from due to his abusive behavior towards his former spouse.
What party did tankies "take over"?
The Bolshevik Party. 1917 never forgetti.
Basically being like "if I spoke up about BLM being bad we wouldn't have tankies in the democratic party and trans people would respect the gender binary" is straight up reactionary, why would anyone want her on their side
As an aside, is there a term or phrase for when someone starts doing a West Wing monologue in a group chat?
As an aside, is there a term or phrase for when someone starts doing a West Wing monologue in a group chat?
...Sorkinizing, maybe?
If BriannaWu wants to credit tankies with pronouns (probably referring to neopronouns and Feinberg) and defeating transmedicalism I say we lean into it.
Some of the best trans victories in recent years have been driven by marxist-leninists and if these toolbags are admitting that then we should agree and take ownership of it.
calling her an "activist" honestly gives her too much credit. the issue she first got any attention for was getting cyberbullied by dumbass gamers. she hasn't done or said anything else that was noteworthy.
"Cissy Hippo Pub"
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Can it be a dunk pit
when she goes on Leo Laporte's tech podcast (which itself is mainstream/pro corp) she talks like a regular dem political aspirant, very safe and fearful of stepping over whatever boundaries they enforce for themselves, nothing progressive in her messaging
Its a misrepresentation that the title called her an aspirational congresswoman, she ran once in 2020, didnt make the Ballot, and isnt running again. To my knowledge anyway.
Sorry. I agree the dems suck but Autism says I have to be accurate here.
aspirational congresswoman
She was an aspirational congresswoman the way someone that buys a lottery ticket is an aspirational millionaire.
You have to be completely delirious to believe Marxist-Leninists took over anything in the Democratic Party. One look at their foreign policy towards China shows that isn't the case. She's tried to run before and lost. Can't really see this going anywhere than a one-time stint before falling off after the novelty wears off. And that's being generous.
even AOC and bernie, mildly centrist liberals, were too much for them. believing that outright marxist leninists would have any foothold in the dem party is pure delusion
"Free college and legal weed only" pop-progressives are wreckers against actual leftism.
I've only seen incredibly stupid takes from this person on Twitter like way back in the Obama days I think. I'm not surprised
I've never been inclined to credit her for much more than making the right people (g*mers) absolutely seethe, but this is especially wild. Maybe she's angling to be a sort of democrat Blaire White.
Wu: Tankies sounds like a cool title for a Wu-Tang Clan album.
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Who the fuck groups transwomen with tankies?
Sure I can understand how you could consider a radical political perspective to be harmful. Fine. Whatever. I can accept that political stability is preferable to change, even if that change improves people's lives.
But how are trans people implicated in that?
