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theheart wrote (edited )

Quora has... a lot of nazis. Look at any question about Nazi Germany or the Wehrmacht. Most of what I was there for was history, and you get white supremacist takes from the crusades to the second world war.

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theheart wrote

I mean, this sounds right to me based on the perspective I have. I don't think, however, that you can monolithically label 'more privileged countries' given the internal oppressed groups (though I assume that's taken into account for more in-depth explanations?)

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theheart wrote

More seriously, I don't like any politician. Rather see them all dead.

I cannot afford healthcare. If spending 20 minutes writing in a mail-in ballot increases the chance of me having healthcare, I'll do as much. I don't lose anything from it.

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theheart OP wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted1196 in /u/amongstcloud spam by theheart

downvotes are for posts that are not contributing to the discussion or to the site overall, and not simply to show disagreement.

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I think these posts are the actual intended use of downvotes.

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theheart OP wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted1196 in /u/amongstcloud spam by theheart

I don't really care if you do, I just don't like spam. It makes the site display like shit on mobile, floods 'recent comments', and pushes threads to the top of 'hot' and 'most commented' that don't deserve to be.

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theheart wrote

In regards to the oppression, I have a simple argument that I use personally; gay people have gotten beat in the streets, and trans women shot to death in my community. Ace people do not face oppression that stands as similar; they are marginalized themselves, but they do not face the same struggle queer people have and do face. I keep bringing up the pink triangle, Stonewall, AIDS, the modern day nations where it's illegal, and the nations where it's legal but you run the risk of getting killed if you go out in public. As far as I'm aware, there are no systematic oppression of comparable scale for being ace alone.

There's no need to strain queer spaces and resources by opening them up to any group that's marginalized; like I said, I'd prefer the idea of having an overarching label including aces, but I don't think cishet aces should be considered queer by any means.

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theheart wrote (edited )

nobody has been able tell me how a cis man who exclusively pursues relationships with women, confesses exclusive romantic interest in women, but identifies as asexual is materially oppressed on the back of this alone, without essentialising "sexual attraction", assuming systemic rape/compulsory heterosexuality primarily or even exclusively harm asexual people, or erasing gay people's experiences of their own marginalisation. and nobody can give me a good reason why "heteromantic asexual" people can, uh, reclaim "queer".

Ultimately, I agree with this. I think that cishet ace people clearly are marginalized in a few ways, but they aren't oppressed like queer people are and have historically been; there were no cishet aces wearing the pink triangle, nor fighting at Stonewall. I think that there should be solidarity with ace people, and that queer people and aces are allies that align closely and should thus fight together (maybe consider MOGAI be overarching with 'queer'/LGBT being a group within such?), but I'm uncomfortable with the prospect of a cishet person being 'queer'.

(By 'ace people' in that sentence I mean people who are ace without other queer identities, e.g. a cis heteroromantic man. Obviously ace trans or gay or others count as queer.)

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