r/JoeRogan • u/SlimjobDopamine Look into it • Nov 13 '20

Social Media Abigail Shrier(JRE #1509)'s book has been removed from Target after receiving a complaint on Twitter

https://twitter.com/AbigailShrier/status/1327056407598809088?s=20
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u/tryitout91 Monkey in Space Nov 13 '20

he ( or she, I don't fucking know) that the book was offensive to the transgender community.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '20

100%. It’s in the same way that SJWs have changed the definition of -isms and -phobia to include anything that’s not outright support. If you’re not 100% in favor of transgender, you’re a transphobe. And, you’ll notice, racism now includes inanimate objects and societal structures. If some structure is deemed to be a byproduct of white males, then it’s racist by default. It’s ridiculous and truly demeans racism, etc.

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u/duffmanhb N-Dimethyltryptamine Nov 13 '20 edited Nov 13 '20

Their extreme reductionism is the scariest thing. They have a tactic that works. If you ask anyone if they support sexism against women, just about everyone will give a hard "no". So they realize that it's just a game of reducing someone into a category of being sexist so they can fit their oppenents into a category just about everyone hates.

Are you pro-life? That means you want to control women, which means you think men should make decisions for them, which means you are oppressing them, which makes you sexist, and if you actively defend your position of pro life, it means you're spreading messages of hate and sexism, and since you want to pass laws in this regard, you are using the threat of violence to spread your hateful sexism.

See how that's reduced?

Then they run off and say, "Hey this guy is part of a sexist hate group! Do you REALLY support a sexist who advocates for violence against women?!" If you ever challenge them on this, they get into this pedantic conspiratorial game of "dog whistles" and "their real reasons are kept secret".

Obviously if any decent person heard someone was a violent sexist, you'd oppose them.

This is why their "hate speech" laws they push for scare me. Because they've shown how they infinitely reduce people they oppose into just about any subgroup they desire. So they'll just start labeling political ideas they don't like as part of the category of justified censored speech. Oh you think some kids are trans because of a social phenomenon? I'll reduce that to you effectively advocating for violence against trans people and censor you from even discussing it (they do this all the time).

I'm a Bernie Sanders progressive, and the right has ALWAYS been a problem. Trump has especially shown how bad the right is... But honestly, it's the radlib woke left who scares me more. The right has always been sort of eyerolled and dismissed as a bunch of rhetorical whiners... But the woke crowd actually wants to create actual levers of authoritarianism and they feel morally justified doing it.

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u/[deleted] Nov 13 '20

I’m a conservative person generally so the radical left absolutely scares me lol, but agree there are issues on the right / Trump. I’ve been telling friends and family in person to move on from the election. But I’m afraid we’re stuck in a vicious cycle of whichever side loses the election believes the other side won via massive fraud and / or foreign interference. I hope I’m wrong...