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In reply to the discussion: Venue Slams Hateful RADFEM2012 Conference. Thrown out! [View all]JoeyT
(6,785 posts)7. Well, yeah, that appears to be their goal.
They'll cost a lot more allies than they'll do good.
"You shouldn't be oppressing me, you should be oppressing THEM!" will run off pretty much everyone that isn't one of them in fairly short order. And it should, because it's a shitty attitude to have.
I've got zero sympathy for bigots, no matter what reproductive organs they have.
Edited to add: It also destroys any argument they might make regarding privilege or rights. I wouldn't take a gay man's argument for marriage equality seriously if he were making it in a Klan robe, and I see no reason anyone should listen to these people.
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well ill make this post my last as it seems my first impressions of this site may have been wrong .
angelusuk1
Jun 2012
#37
So are the PPR'd trolls in this thread all the same person or is this thread a magnet for that type?
laconicsax
Jun 2012
#58
I think there is a problem with terminology here. The conference is really for Seperatist Feminists
stevenleser
Jul 2012
#63