Dude, I spent 40 minutes writing you a personalised list to back up the fundamental ideas and principles that make up my personal belief system. Your response to that is you’re older than me and I should be open minded? This is the exact problem with Liberals and this 50yr scourge of neoliberalism.
The person you’re responding to also is acting like he is the adult and we’re all children who need to be told how the “real world” works. I’m not that much younger than he is, but also age isn’t the only arbiter of knowledge or experience
I think age can equal experience and knowledge/wisdom to an extent but I’m fucking 34 years old… and moreover, I’m demonstrating I’m more informed on the topic and that gets people like this mad for some reason.
I'm not mad. I'm always open to factual information. When you come across someone like me who is not intimately knowledgeable about your cause, a little bit of understanding goes a long way. And me saying I'm political since '88 is only so you know I'm not new to how politics fucks up everything.
I asked you if you would like a reading list to become more knowledgeable, you took the opportunity to tell me to stop playing victim complex, you have lost what little credit of good faith and credibility you had with me. Read the books if you want, but talk to your son, not strangers online.
I do talk to my son. Regularly. You know what he doesn't do? Attack me for not knowing the exact thing that you want me to say or magically somehow know everything about your cause . And you are playing the victim. And spoiler alert... I don't need your credit or good faith.
Send your son this thread and ask him to dm me. I’d like to hear his thoughts on how you’ve chosen to speak to the community
I imagine his kid considers himself "one of the good ones" who is happy to see the rest of the trans community suffer as long as he got his. HE made it past 25 after all, so who gives a fuck if Newsom's policies kill young trans kids today? He'll tell his dad we leftists just don't get pragmatism
Never mind that we're basing many of our concerns on watching what is happening RIGHT NOW in the UK, which voted in a center-left party that embraced anti-trans policies and is now making the country more and more unlivable for all trans people. Dad thinks we're idiots and I'm sure his kid agrees