there is this annoying trend where for example someone will like. reinvent phrenology and someone will point out “ you know the nazi’s believed in that” and then response they’ll go “oh so i should make sure my phrenology isn’t racist or anti-sematic!” because they don’t understand that assigning physical traits to intelligence or morality is still bad no matter what, not just because “people who i know are objectly bad share those beliefs for the wrong reasons” and this happens everytime.
someone will reblog a post that’s like “men are genetically disposed to being evil due to their genes and brain chemistry” and than be told “you know this post was written by a terf and they’re talking about trans women, right?” and than go “oh my bad” and than post “men are genetically disposed to being evil due to their genes and brain chemistry (this post is not about trans women!) terfs dni” and it’s like. ok you know that doesn’t suddenly help right?
@globalincident was replying to a post where an Israeli politician said, ““And like Hitler, may his name be erased, said: ‘I cannot live in this world if there is one Jew left in it’, we could not live in this land if even one such Islamo-Nazi remains in Gaza”. This is exactly what these people sound like to me. “Fuck TERFs, all my homies hate TERFs, but they really nailed that bioessentialism”. “Fuck eugenics and kill all the Nazis, but listen to my repackaged race science.” Evil comes from Bad Peopleism™, apparently, not the normalized inequalities of society and its fear of the Other.
