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@SiobhanFTB
Sep 10, 2018 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
My personal favourite is "failure to disperse" because you collapsed to the ground after they mace you in the face
also "resisting arrest" because you flinched after they tackle you

like acab is pretty well established among ardent activists but we need to talk about prosecutors and their willingness to corroborate police abuse of power
I haven't been able to track frequency of when charges are dropped by the prosecution or when they're taken to trial (maybe I should start) but we literally had "being arrested is resisting arrest" argued during the #J20Trials

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Oct 3, 2018
Reminder that Canada's publicly funded religious schools earn us a black eye from the United Nations every time they do a human rights review.
That is also connected to the residential schools, a euphemism that perhaps fails to properly capture the incomprehensible cruelty behind these genocidal programs.

collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescana…
But yes, an allegedly developed democracy has an entire class of schools who can just throw up their hands and go "nah" every time the public tries to protect human rights in their systems.
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Oct 2, 2018
I'm extremely cynical about what's really being said in these cheesy "should trans people have rights" polls, and I'll walk you through a local example as to why.
Back before it was devoured by The Star, a local paper called Metro News conducted a poll they claim was about Bill C-16, a law that amended federal Canadian rights to include gender identity. I say "they claim" because they failed to interpret a very important gap in their data.
They asked first a more general question, along the lines of "do you support adding trans Canadians to human rights law." You'd think answer no to that question would make you look like an asshole, yet a whopping 25% were comfortable saying as much anyway

freethoughtblogs.com/atg/2016/06/10…
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Oct 2, 2018
Euro-colonial cissexism was never a system rooted in logic, trying to use it as a tool to make declarations on validity of identities derived from it is a fool's errand. #TransRational
Rationalism is important, but as is often the case with people who self-identify as rationalists, it's an important ideology being bastardized by people who wouldn't pass a single fucking philosophy essay.
Of course when you put trans identity under the microscope it's not going to make sense. But the exact same is true of cis identity, because the entire pretext of cissexism is convergent folklore, not a meticulous theory of existence. Physician, heal thyself. #TransRational
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Oct 1, 2018
I felt tempted to try a good faith attempt to engage with this honestly but all that came out was "fuck off, tosser"
"Starvation is honourable and dignified" --person who has never eaten peanut butter for a week to make ends meet
Me: *takes a second look at this take*

Me, 3 seconds later:
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Oct 1, 2018
Now that I think about it, no right-winger has actually justified to me *why* their policies should be imposed against popular will, other than "we won."
Democracy to them isn't a means of achieving consensus, but rather a means of acquiring power to enact their will. They will (and do, and have, repeatedly) cheated in that vein.
Very few Conservative policy positions even have a basic majority (51+%) of popular support. Abortion? Even in the USA it's like 80% who support at least some access, and the ones who want unconditional access outnumber the ones who want it banned 2:1.
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Sep 25, 2018
I'm really tired of the way most people conduct gender "socialization" discourse so I'm going to hammer this out:

Everybody is socialized into all euro-colonial gender roles.
Mistake #1 is conceiving of gendered socialization as something you strictly receive.

False.

Part of this process is teaching you how and when to apply this pressure to others.

Mothers can and sometimes do teach their sons toxic masculinity.
Girl peers can and sometimes do berate boys for not adhering to said toxic masculinity.

They couldn't do that unless they also received messages on what boyhood "ought" to entail.
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