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• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Lol, now you’re just making shit up.

  The point is with this sort of narrative that isn’t really based on hard evidence in the first place, virtually anything that happens can be spun to support it, and the inconvenient parts just glossed over.

  As for El Sayed, I’m not saying everybody has gone full anti-woke. I’m just saying the Democratic party has chilled out in general. There’s gonna be exceptions.

  So what you are saying then is that everybody had been woke. Because otherwise, if it’s just that there are some politicians that are woke and some that are anti-woke, and it was like that before, then nothing’s really changed.

  But that’s the thing. Not everybody in the party was woke. And if you relied on actual evidence instead of memories and feelings, you’d see that that’s obviously true. If everyone had been woke, that raises the question of why wasn’t there legislation that you can actually point to?

  If anything, politicians generally didn’t really talk about trans people or have clearly defined stances, until Republicans decided to make it a central issue of their campaign.

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  • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Politics is not always “hard facts” and sometimes it’s just “perception and feelings”. When I saw this meme I had a reaction based on what I have seen over the last 5-10 years. I am one person on the internet. Feel free to ignore me, but also feel free to recognize that I may be representing an opinion shared by many other people that are not commenting on this thread.

    I see posts on here all the time and comments on here all the time that collect to give me a perception of the “community”. Along with talking with friends and family. And not only reading headlines about things a politician said, but listening to their actual words. It is not worth it to me to google sources for you for every opinion or perception I have.

    You mentioned El Sayed as an example. I saw a headline yesterday praising him for not turning his back on trans people in his 60 minutes interview. I listened to that interview and didn’t hear anything particularly pro trans. He basically said the government doesn’t need to get involved. Which is a great opinion to have.

    Do I feel like having it out with you about how “woke” he is as a candidate? Not really. Especially not when it doesn’t matter.

    So what you are saying then is that everybody had beenwoke.

    No, that’s not what I’m saying.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      He basically said the government doesn’t need to get involved.

      That’s literally what the Democrats were saying in “Woke 1.”

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      • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I don’t know what “woke 1” is

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