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icannotgetoverbirds · 2 years ago

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and if you're going for socially acceptable across political spectrums: every fat person ever would like to have several words with op, along with little people, children, people with addictions, people who can't care for themselves, intersex people, JEWISH PEOPLE for goodness sake, and probably several others I haven't thought of, as well as everyone for whom one or more of those identities intersect.

Did you forget that people frequently cite eugenics as a solution for fat disabled people as a joke, including hardened leftists? Or do you just not see them as humans, or humans worthy of the things every human deserves?

Making fun of short people is the last social taboo seen as acceptable

#byrd chirps #THANK YOU #fuck-you-showerthoughts #i was wondering when you were gonna get this one #and yes i included children on there #do you want to know why child predators are so prolific among right-wingers?#it's because right-wingers and people who don't see children as humans still learning how to function are often one and the same #so (and don't take this as advice because it absolutely is not) all they have to do is literally treat children the way children deserve #for a pretty insignificant amount of time #in order to get the child to trust them and bond with them #children are a vulnerable demographic. that should not be a controversial statement.#but yeah if you act normal with kids and treat them like full humans they'll trust you and listen to you and that scares the shit out of me #because it means that they got lucky if it was me since im not going to ever hurt them #(except in rare accidental cases and certainly never the way a predator would)#and i have to hope that their parents treat them this way too #that their parents listen to them as full humans with appropriately granted but inherent autonomy #because if their parents don't listen to them someone else will #and i just have to hope that whoever that ends up being is. you know. safe for them.#it's also why im terrified by the groomer rhetoric going around #because while i constantly advertise that im terrible with kids #i actually tend to do really well with them when they're not a sensory nightmare #because i do listen to them! because their voices however small deserve to be heard!#and that scares me because any concerned person with any level of knowledge about these things #can misconstrue that. and then the right-wingers will pick it up and run with it #and then it's just a self-fulfilling prophecy to them without me so much as breathing wrong #or maybe im just paranoid. i really fucking hope im just paranoid #but you can't ignore the axes of oppression here and that's what keeps me thinking about it #because with the metoo movement well we're supposed to believe victims and i agree!#i was on that side of the metoo movement! i still am!#but conservative adults like to speak for children instead of to them and i worry that they'll use a kid as a vehicle

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