Political Memes

You can tell lemmy is mostly white cishet men by comments like this. Gee, I wonder if there would be a difference between making fun of him for being a hotdog eater and him crossdressing as a woman. Is there, perchance, some other factors in our social and cultural context that would make one of these things more relevant to discussions on harmful values? Think about someone other than yourself and how they are effected by the normalization of jokes that targets a man for being a disgusting crossdresser and how that is a validation of your own perception of him as a morally depraved, social pariah. You think that maybe you uh, have some internalized values you aren't challenging there bud?

That you think you are just making fun of him "for being a hypocrite" is itself an indicator of how fucking vulnerable liberals are to fascist ideology. When I joke about liberals throwing me in a camp, the joke is not that it would be absurd for liberals to have camps, but rather how absurd it is to see how obviously incapable you all are of even grappling with what is wrong with fascists even though you purportedly hate them.

The fact that you think this is about being bad meanies and kinkshaming and not like, misogyny and transphobia while both women and trans people are losing their legal protections in the US is telling. You think this is about making them look "goofy?" Have you maybe considered you're not in the position to intuitively understand how problematic the specific conditions of this "goofyness" is? I say intuitively as it is already obvious you haven't read a fucking thing about any of these topics, let alone how fascists and liberals launder their values on these topics. Think for one fucking second why it would be bad to see these Nazis as engaging in "silly dressup games" specifically in reference to crossdressing as a woman.

I do not give a shit about being mean to fascists, they deserve to suffer, I care about preventing liberals and fascists from reproducing their values and directing violence at vulnerable groups. If you're still at the point where the debate is "be mean or don't be mean," you should step back and stop approaching these kinds of discussions as though you're an authority. You wanna be mean to these people? Howbout you make fun of them for being fascists or at the very least don't make fun of some other group to do it.

Before you respond, ask yourself if you are the kind of person who should get a say on whether this is harmful.

Here's the thing, it doesn't matter what is cathartic for you if your response to fascists functions to further their goals. The fundamental joke of this post is that this man is foolish for pretending to be a woman. Whether or not he is "stupid" for being a bigot with a crossdressing kink (as many bigots do), the common value both in his fetishization of feminisation and jokes such as this is that it is demeaning to present feminine in a male body.

Liberals are far too self-satisfied with identifying "hypocrisy" in this man's actions to interrogate their own misogyny and transphobia when they respond to it. They think their internally held values somehow reduces the consequences of their actions, so contributing to the genocide of trans people through the reinforcement of these values is misrecognized as justified because they are, "making fun of the bad guys;" much to the benefit of fascists.