Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists?

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Were the views associated with the company? Or was it purely a personal blog?

  The distinction matters. Many people are a le to separate business from politics, but some are not. The former aren’t a concern, the latter definitely are.

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  • DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Your right. I can’t seperate people and politics.

    Because people take the money from business and advocate for the death of me and my trans community.

    I don’t see a reason to operate those two.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The furthest I’ve seen is advocating for conservative politicians, which is generally for more favorable tax treatment and maybe some more flexibility in what services they need to provide to their employees.

      I don’t think business owners care about the trans community for good or ill. The only reason it seems that conservatives care at all is because liberals are so vocal about it. And liberals aren’t even really pushing for anything to help the trans community, it’s mostly lip service.

      The real enemy isn’t you average conservative voter, but specific politicians pushing a populist agenda, which paints trans people as the enemy. If it wasn’t trans people, it would be gay people, some variety of immigrant, etc, the target is less important to the movement, they just need to be weak and unpopular enough for them to get away with it.

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      • DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wow. Okay. Thats a really bad response.

        The furthest I’ve seen is advocating for conservative politicians, which is generally for more favorable tax treatment and maybe some more flexibility in what services they need to provide to their employees.

        First off, that’s still indefensible? Like advocating for less worker safety isn’t a good thing right? Or lower pay? Like those are all agreeable bad things for companies to be doing right?

        We’ll come back to the second “where the money comes from”.

        I don’t think business owners care about the trans community for good or ill.

        That’s a pretty broad brush there.

        Chick-fil-A does a pretty good job of showing you that’s not a rule by any means.

        The only reason it seems that conservatives care at all is because liberals are so vocal about it. And liberals aren’t even really pushing for anything to help the trans community, it’s mostly lip service.

        This makes no sense, If neither side cares, then why is it a problem?

        Also, why are conservatives in your view just reactionary to what every ‘liberals’ are saying?

        The real enemy isn’t you average conservative voter, but specific politicians pushing a populist agenda, which paints trans people as the enemy. If it wasn’t trans people, it would be gay people, some variety of immigrant, etc, the target is less important to the movement, they just need to be weak and unpopular enough for them to get away with it. Again, it’s not your average voter, but whoever is pushing that agenda.

        This is so submissive to hate. Heaven forbid we don’t tolerate intolerance? This is such dismissive “it’s the way it is” talk.

        I never said my problem is with the average voter (although the average Republican voter absolutely hate my guts). My problem is with the money that flows. It’s the money fueling this hate. So yes, where I spend money has ALWAYS been political. So yes, it matters who my money is funding, and if that fund is funding my danger.

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