Transphobia is rampant throughout steem, and is reinforced by many people in positions of relative power.
@anarchyhasnogods
I find it very interesting that you denied in your comments your admiration for Stalin and Soviet Union, and yet this sentence of yours awfully resembles Marxist ideology which was based on the hypothesis that evil bourgeois was enslaving the proletariat, in the economic system where everything was oriented towards maintaining the working class poor and making rich people ever richer. I guess I don't have to remind you that communism and Marxism as an ideology were completely rejected by the end of the 1960s, as by far the most destructive economic and political doctrine that has ever been invented by mankind.
Unfortunately, during the 1970s, the Marxist ideology arose from the ashes under the mask of post-modernism, where instead of making the victim out of the working class, the focus is placed on creating allegedly oppressed identity groups (arbitrary formed based on their sexual/gender identity and gender expression as most convenient categories), by the evil oppressors from the "positions of power". The ultimate aim of post-modernists (or neo-Marxists) is to gain power by limiting the freedom of speech, which is achieved through calling any person who provides alternative view to theirs a transphobe, a bigot, and others made-up terms. This strategy has turned out to be particularly effective, because people, out of fear of being declared in such manner, accept playing their game and calling them by their preferred pronouns.
To conclude, personally I don't think that here on Steemit people are "transphobes", and especially not those people you referred to. I highly doubt that anyone cares at all about your biological sex, gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation. You have the absolute right to be whatever you feel most comfortable with. And no one has the right to take that right away from you.
Now speaking for myself, the problem I have with all this is when people are trying to limit my freedom of speech by putting the "politically correct" words in my mouth. And I'm pretty sure most of the people would agree with me on this, if they had a courage to speak openly (but again, I'm speaking only for myself, because I cannot confirm this).
I will never conform to the twisted, radical left, post-modern ideology, and I will never restrain from speaking my opinion about things and from using any sort of words I find appropriate to do so.
Because I have the right to speak up my opinion, and you have the right to be offended, same goes vice versa.
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Not real. Communist politics were still going strong until the end of the 70s. Ever heard of May 68? The 1970s still had a number of national liberation movements. You just don't know what you're talking about, and can't understand that communist thought has multiple tendencies and dimensions to it, as well as having a conflicted but dialectical relationship with anarchist thought.
Go masturbate to your little black book of CIA propaganda. Communism has helped people liberate themselves from western colonialism around the entire globe. Marxism is responsible for the modernization of Asia, Africa and South America. It is Marxism, not capitalism, which has brought these people out of the darkness (which Western Imperialism cast them into). So fuck off with this most destructive bullshit.
Did Marxism cause WW1 or WW2? Did Marxism drop nuclear weapons on Japan? Did Marxism enslave Africa to fill its coffers?
More Peterson-nonsense. You still have his semen on your lips.
POMO and Marxism are, by essence, different and incommensurable. Anyone who has actually bothered to read Derrida, Lacan, Lyotard or the other 'big names' that are categorized under the nomenclature of 'post modernist' immediately understands that the concepts they work with are a break from classical Marxism.
This is not real. Peterson doesn't know what he's talking about. And neither do you.
Post-modernism, at its core, is a deconstructive theory which criticism grand narratives, which Marxism absolutely is (a grand narrative). They want different things. They are different. They aren't some conspiracy. Shut the fuck up.
There is no 'cultural marxist' conspiracy to try and end your little-bitch 'free speech'. Nobody gives a fuck what you have to say anyway, because its fucking ignorant and delusional. Marxists don't need to hide and call people names, because we can actually debate with you. But that's generally useless because you don't listen, don't know what you're talking about, and won't even realize when you've been proven wrong.
My ancestors were communists and Partisans for a very good reason. In that moment of time *(1850 - 1940) it was a good idea. And noble idea. The idea of justice as well.
The problem is that the technology changed since WWII and the whole logic of production and the establishment of values changed.
1900 - We need to plough the field in late autumn *(capitalist expert, value 0, common sense)
2000 - We need to introduce the Lys on the active site 256 on the enzyme XPZ in order to ... *(capitalist expert, value is infinite, the unique knowledge)
If we look at countless examples of Communist vs Capitalist economy *(not for the poorest countries) we will see the same pattern. Once the borders are opened for trading, the economy of communist country collapses in a year. Examples: HUN, YUG, ROM, BUL, ALB... And it takes decades to fix it up and re-establish modest living standard again.
Partially true. Again, my family was in Partisans during WWII and before.
The question is... Why all the people from Yugoslavia go to GER/AUT? Why all the people from TUN, MAR, ALG, LEB go to France? Yes, they tried to enslave us 50+ years ago, but now their system is way better.
Ok... May you give me one example. One country that is more successful in any measurable parameter in comparison with a capitalist counterpart?
We tested communism in Eastern Europe in many shades and versions.
The result was always the same: lagging behind in technology, not competitive products, irrational production of goods. Once the borders are opened, it brings emigration, import of foreign goods, terrible export/import ratio, inflation of currency and the poverty comparable to Africa. Seriously, we ate pigeons and sparrows!?