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Racists love to say they’re employing “pattern recognition.” It’s a phrase they regularly come back to in order to say you’re stupid for not being racist. But they can’t recognize when the pattern fails, even when they’re directly discussing the pattern failing. E.g. a couple times now I’ve seen a pro-gay racist use discrimination against gay people as an excuse to say some group are “savages” or whatnot, without any acknowledgement that the same group they hate includes the gay people they’re supposedly defending.

A lot of people would think the Pure are contradictory. They're very Christian, but also very Rationalist. They're superstitious, but they pay lip service to studying and finding things out for yourself. To me, they represent something specific.

Someone on social media said that wearing COVID masks made children forget how to smile. People asked her where she was getting this from, and she said she looked and saw it. It was bizarre, but it was her observation, and she wouldn't be dissuaded.

The Pure are the ultimate triumph of her way of looking at the world. The Pure are the treatment of one's subjective view as the true objective, rational view, with no room to doubt or reconsider. Whatever you know must be true, that's what you perceive, and because you perceive it, you know it must be true. Anything outside what you can imagine simply doesn't exist, and if it persists, you make it not exist. Any person who isn't part of your social order will be killed and forgotten, and it will be like they were never there.

When people use a cherry-picked study to argue that gay men are proven to be bad fathers, that's the Pure. When someone said trans women rape cis women all the time, but the mainstream media covers it up, that's the Pure. Hell, that RWBY fan who said it's morally bad to ship Yang and Blake, because it's obvious two people traumatized by the same abuser will inevitably retraumatize each other? They're small-scale, but they're still the Pure. The Pure are in every conspiracy theory, and every attempt to make the world "make sense" that pretends the world has an obligation to make sense to you.

You think “white gays” believe propaganda that tells them to hate Middle Easterners.

This is because you believe propaganda that tells you to hate “white gays.”

Gay people who aren’t Pete Buttigieg are aware enough not to listen when people who hate them tell them who they should hate. Stop assuming you have more enemies than you actually have.

I’m not going to pick a fight with this person because they’re mourning their family, but the word “should” continues to be a wet fart. Westerners “should” care about dead Palestinians without live Palestinians having to jump through hoops for it. But if Westerners don’t care, any hoop-jumping that gets them to care is worth it. I mean, I’m queer, and a lot of us have practically become performing monkeys trying to get straight people to care about us.

Guys face strong social pressure to not appear gay, even if it means giving up things like touching other people.

Guys in Westerns can touch other guys.

Galaxy brained academics: clearly, Westerns are how guys express their gay feelings.

Talking about “trans ideology” isn’t even repackaged anti-gay, it’s repackaged antisemitism.

Sure, “queer people aren’t trying to ‘recruit’ your kids” is a full sentence. But I think there’s a bit more nuance that can be put on it.

There’s a right-wing idea that queerness is contagious, like turning into a werewolf. But on the left, what we think is that some folks figure out they’re queer, and other folks figure out they’re not queer, and what they are doesn’t change, just how much they know about what they are. We’ve seen folks who had a miserable time trying to date women before realizing they’d rather date men, or who pushed themselves to date when they weren’t interested in romance at all, and our goal is to make it easier to avoid that. If you turn out to be straight and cis, all the more power to you! You know what you are because you had the chance to see what you’re not. If you’re bisexual, but you only date the opposite gender, that’s fine! We’re not trying to “fix” you. All we want is for people to understand themselves a little better.

I was going to argue that “the minority members who disagree with me aren’t actually minority members” is a sign of a terrible, terrible take. Then I remembered “political lesbians,” non-lesbians who view actual lesbians as embarrassing perverts. I withdraw my criticism.

(I’ve also heard of “Messianic Jews,” but I try to avoiding talking about those anymore.)