No right to a peaceful existence
Oh nothing, just declaring a set of people outside the law, as one does.
TERF’s, like all Nazis, have no right to a peaceful existence or steady employment. They have declared their support of fascism and have therefore declared their intent to directly harm the trans community wherever they’re found. They threaten the safety and dignity of others and therefore deserve none themselves until they choose to be human once more.
The usual caveats to the direct action approach apply. Be careful of misidentifying people. Attacking bystanders just makes TERF’s look sympathetic. Don’t do anything you can’t handle the consequences of.
Don’t kill them unless you’re sure they’re radical feminists.
Doxxing is another effective tool against fascists, just as it can be against TERF’s. TERF’s are very similar to incels: they are keyboard warriors. They hide behind online personas to spew evil and feel safe in their own bubble. Doxxing takes that safety away from them in a way that causes many to quit on the spot. Since the goal of combating hate is to make the person stop spreading it, there is no question doxxing is an important and useful tool to that end.
This is Laura Izaguirre, who writes unhinged pieces like this on Medium. No keyboard warrior she.
Doxxing a white supremacist has proven effective in making them afraid. Once their info is found, their friends, family, and places of work are contacted. Nazis are usually fired and ostracized and thus given suitable social punishment for advocating harm against others. TERF’s should be subject to the exact same outcomes. If you can cause a TERF to lose their job, do so! They can, after all, simply stop being a TERF if they want to find employment again.
What could be fairer than that?
Property damage is another escalation up the chain of direct action. While deplatforming and doxxing are legal (in the US), property damage can cross into criminal territory. This is not a path to choose lightly and extreme care must be exercised if you want to go this route.
Care to evade capture, that is.
What about bodily harm against bigots? Is that a valid tactic? Yes, but with important considerations. It’s the most serious form of corrective action you can use — and one very likely to get you in major trouble. Only use it as a tactic if you’re sure you can handle the consequence of being caught.
There are several great examples of bodily harm being used against fascists. One of the most famous examples is Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer being punched. This helped make America realize the widespread invasion of Nazis into the public sphere. Even better, the person who did it has never been caught. They are living as a free person with the knowledge that they decked a Nazi. Similarly, there was the heroic trans woman who almost delivered a blow for justice against TERF Julie Bindel.
That is, the heroic man who tried to punch Julie Bindel in the face.
If someone comes at you with the intent to take your life, then killing in self-defense is 100% justified. But a dead person cannot find redemption. They cannot change their ways. Worse, they may become a martyr and attract more people to the cause of white supremacists. Why give Trump an excuse to call TERF’s “good people?” (He already knows they’re on his side.) Generally speaking, killing is a step too far.
Specifically speaking, however, it’s not.
I read that. There are many examples pulled from people fighting against neo-nazis and the like. The provided example of terrorist actions from TERFs is that billboard that defines “woman” as “an adult human female.”
The reasoning is somewhat shoddy.
Clicked on the first link and got this:
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This account is under investigation or was found in violation of the Medium Rules.
Took them long enough. I guess it was the “don’t kill them unless you’re sure you can get away with it” part?
So “fascist” just means “big meanie” now?
(In what possible way is radical feminist thought like Nazism?)
Radical feminist: “Break down the hierarchies! End male dominance! Free the individual from social control!”
That’s like Nazis?
Ben@5: Not exactly just “big meanie”, although that is somewhat implied. Basically, such people equate oppressor with fascist. Combine that with the intersectional lens through which they view everything, and you get subjective and objective hierarchies of fascists. The objective (in the sense of not being agent-relative) hierarchy identifies the most and least oppressed, and assigns ranks of fascism based on that.
The subjective (i.e., agent-relative) hierarchy does the same thing, but orders the hierarchy with the agent’s self-identified group(s) at the bottom. So women are fascists because they oppress trans people. Likewise, women themselves aren’t really oppressed, because they’re on the oppressor part of the hierarchy.
All I could think reading that is “TERF’s what?” Their names? Their dogs? Their beanies?
Whoever wrote that should be detained for serial apostrophe abuse.
On further reflection, if it’s TERF’s, it’s singular. So is there only one TERF? Or are they referring to a generic TERF? Pedants everywhere want to know.
And, of course, the obligate identification of the TERFs as white, and oppressing black people. So they can make sure that on the fence progressives know which side of the fence to fall off on…
What a Maroon, I love that – serial apostrophe abuse. I may have to steal it.
This seems to be an edited repost by “Laura Izzaguire” of similar drivel written not long ago that also got removed by Medium (after some of us wrote to Medium and pointed out that Medium would have blood and legal liability on their hands if some dog responded to all the dog-whistles in that article).
But I am wondering, due to the ideas espoused and the way of writing, if this “Laura” has agreed to be a human sock puppet for Ogre and/or the CATA men. The stochastic terrorism of trying to gin up violence against real women just reminds me so much of Rogaine and his boys, for some reason.
While I’ll agree with most of the methods one has to be very sparing and judicious with the above and be able to tell Julie Bindel from Richard fucking Spencer.
Also, as a general rule if I consider that something is a good idea I take the view that it isn’t something people should do.
Here’s a link where it’s archived:
http://archive.is/weVYH
“Punch a Nazi” can never be an accepted maxim, and this “article” rather clearly shows why. Because “Nazi” is a term that has fuzzy, subjectively expandable boundaries, you can never know when you’ll be the Nazi getting punched.
Golly, Medium took this down? It must be part of the international TERF conspiracy.
This Laura idiot (or whoever she/he is sock puppeting for) is also really misjudging human nature. When I get afraid of imminent attack, I make sure I have more weapons on me, not less, and I am more prepared to use those weapons to defend myself.
A person with nothing to lose can be a very very dangerous person to everybody and everything around him or her so I guess Laura is fine with her (?) exhortations to violence having collateral damage of innocent people.
And there have been incidents where men have used the loss of a job as an excuse to go on killing sprees so I guess “Laura” better think about what happens when a man loses his job due to the trans cult. Will he spend the time and energy to find the exact individual who doxxed him or got him fired or will he go after innocent trans people?
And screeds of hate may be making the trans cult look as loony as it is (which is good) but it is also ginning up fear and rage that may blow back onto trans people who want nothing to do with this Laura and her (?) vileness.
Guess Laura never heard of the saying sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
I’m sure ‘TERF’s’ is just ignorant, but it reminds me of the way people used to write about ‘the Jew’ in the singular.
Supposedly Trump is making inroads with minority groups (not huge, but not insignificant) *because* of this sort of thing. The trans cult is front and center in the “political correctness gone mad” meme.
The usual pattern is to go after innocent women. So Laura would probably have no problem with that, since ‘cis’-women are fair game to people who ‘think’ like this.
I hate the “punch a Nazi” meme. I argued with many of my lefty friends about it. Violence begets violence, punching “Nazis” only gave them more license to hit back.
To advocate the doxxing of women is to encourage violence against them. There are more stories than you can count about women who’ve been doxxed and literally driven out of their homes. And men who’ve been doxxed where the women and children have faced worse consequences and threats.
Everyone has the right to a peaceful environment and a steady job. Destroying a person’s life because you disagree with them is despicable. And encouraging someone to do this to “the enemy” could destroy their life too. Jail is not so fun.
Yeah, I think for :Laura, that is a feature, not a bug.