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Postal worker parent of trans kid refused to deliver hateful flyers. She's being punished.
(www.lgbtqnation.com)
this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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Just so people can judge for themselves...
And if she pull this the Georgia mail carrier pulls the abortion and lgbt mail. Let people get the hate mail. The only ones it convinces are those that already agree everyone else just trashes it. Postal Carriers should deliver regardless of sender or recipient. This just does DeJoy's work for him.
Apples to oranges comparison. Facilitating speech is not automatically a neutral action. Facilitating hate speech is bad and censoring hatemongers is good. The law is irrelevant to the question of morality.
Really, you want someone going through your mail deciding what you get? What if I'm the judge of what you get, are you still happy?
A targeted life-threatening disinformation campaign like this is easily discernible from a personal letter. A person's right to a apolitical, uninterrupted mail service should not supersede a group's right to exist. A ban on gender affirming care, which was the goal of this disinformation campaign, would deny trans people the right to exist. The postal service should make the strategic decision to defend life and liberty by not spreading disinformation campaigns.
The article is about events in Canada.
Regardless, we are facing similar problems in the United States. Fascists are infiltrating positions that oversee elections. We would do well to learn from this woman's example.
We should not tolerate intolerance. Banning gender affirming care would deny trans people the fundamental right to exist. We should make the strategic decision to defend life and liberty and not spread targeted life-threatening disinformation campaigns. Nor should we base our actions off what fascists will do. Fascists are bad-faith actors. Bad-faith factors will attempt undermine any system or institution that they can infiltrate. We should focus our efforts on preventing bad-faiths actors from taking power.
“God doesn’t make mistakes.” This has to be the best argument I have ever seen. Just wow… Can’t god also solve the 3x+1 problem? Would be useful.
this is a phrase I've started to turn around in a trans-affirming way: god doesn't make mistakes, do you really think he couldn't conceive of a trans person?
Don't wear Glasses or use viagra as God intended.
Good to see that conservatives are focused on the widespread problems that really matter to people internationally and not just down here in the US!
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