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maybe the woke was inside us all along (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/politicalmemes

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it doesn't ban single occupancy bathrooms. It bans multi-occupancy gender neutral bathrooms - like bathrooms with stalls that share the same set of sinks. Don't get me wrong it's still dumb, but not as bad as you are thinking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

okay fair thanks for the correction. i think we can still both agree that it’s obviously just meant to antagonize people over a non-issue in order to maintain a culture war tho 👍

edit: okay im reading through again and i think i was right? and they are banning both? i welcome the insight of others in interpreting this bc now im confused as hell

As part of the regulations, contractors can construct “self-contained universal toilets” which the government said may only be constructed if a “lack of space reasonably precludes provision of single-sex toilet accommodation.”

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oof okay I guess it's worse than I thought. I swear they had some provision for non-binary people, but i guess they just hate queer people.

I don't agree with dismissing everything as a distraction. I think some conservatives legitimately do care about this stuff. I also don't think people would suddenly turn anti-capitalist from just not having distractions. People are generally dumb as shit, and most the alternatives to capitalism are also shit because again people are dumb. If you are going to replace capitalism you need to come up with something that's both actually better, explainable to the public, and overcome the baggage of all the experiments that failed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

agree, but i don’t think i said anything about capitalism?

if anything this is conservatives continuing to use the existence of trans people, less than 1% of the population, as leverage to fearmonger themselves into public approval. i wouldn’t call it a distraction as much as plain vanilla fascist oppression.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Normally when people talk about maintaining culture war they are talking about it being a distraction from the problems created by rich people and capitalism. It's the same people who say "no war but class war". Same guys who call conservatives fascists.

Are you telling me you aren't an anti-capitalist?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

no i definitely am an anti capitalist lol. this conversation is beyond my education level maybe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I don't have that much political education but I do see people on lemmy talking about this stuff.