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The US Isn’t Moving Right — the Democrats Are (jacobin.com)

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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Affordable Care Act, LGBTQ rights, marijuana reform…not to mention a Black man was president, and a Black woman is the party nominee.

Oh do lgbt people have more rights now? Oh fuck, I'll let my trans refugee friends know.

[–] mashbooq@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The fact that your trans refugee friends continue to suffer is deplorable, but does not mean lgbt don't have more rights now. You're employing the same fallacy that anti-vaxxers use when they say it's pointless to get a vaccine when it doesn't 100% guarantee protection from the illness. Things are better for some people and still desperately need to improve for many others.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

The fact that your trans refugee friends continue to suffer is deplorable, but does not mean lgbt don’t have more rights now.

Trans people are experiencing low key genocide but we also have more rights now?

Things are better for some people and still desperately need to improve for many others.

Things are desperately worse for some people and have improved slightly for others.

Genocide of trans people > gay marriage on the impact on the queer community