I have simply started calling every person who advocates banning another person being allowed to live openly a NAZI. And when they start removed about it, I remind them that banning a way of life that wasn't hurting anyone else is one of the things nazis did getting started.
Call them what they are. Stop being nice. Stop beating around the bush.
They have told you and shown you who they are, believe them. Oppose them. At all costs.
Well there you go, transphobia pretending to disguise itself. Go ahead and try to justify your wording, you've already lost plenty of people's respect. Of course if that "doesn't matter" to you, you probably shouldn't have brought it up.
People don't seem to realize that their consumption of a product is seen by its beneficiaries.
Sure not YOU directly, but when someone sees "oh this place also set up something dedicated solely to the thing I made, they must really like me and approve of the things I do/say!" and others who agree with their shitty views think "oh they agree too, otherwise why promote it?"
Is it possible to separate the creatOR from the creatION? Yes. But not for everyone, and many of those who can't will see your support as support of their own shitty ideals that match the creators'.
Sure, you may not be antisemitic, but the country club you go to for lunch sure is. Go ahead and pretend you're not supporting them I guess.
My wife is only 2ish years younger than me, and she already doesn't get some references purely through upbringing. Only a couple things have been "before her time"
However, her best friend recently turned 24, married to someone who just hit 21. It feels like talking to children.
And since between the 2 of us we have 12 nieces and nephews under 15 and I speak to them whenever we're visiting I feel like I can say with a little certainty, it reeeeally feels like talking to children sometimes.
I think I have a theory, they're assuming other people are just as incapable of empathy or sympathy as they are, therefore the only reason in their mind that anyone would have an issue with it is jealousy.
Add into that the insecure need to make other people feel bad, and they think by loudly proclaiming it for all to hear, assuming that you will feel bad upon hearing their opinion.
So long story short: they're a piece of shit and their opinions should be ignored by all.
Every time my wife Complains about her phone battery, I ask her if she even looked up from it during the last episode of whatever it is she's watching at the time.
Usually the answer is no but she sure does like to pretend she knows exactly what's going on. Then complains that the story doesn't make sense.
"we did an illegal thing and got called out on it, and one of the people who decides has already correctly pointed out it's illegal! No fair!" stomps feet
Okay who's got one of those co2 cartridge machines to make some fizzy ketchup? I will pay anyone in a crisp high-five the first time i see them to record themselves drinking it and postthe video.
Hilariously, after watching a channel that did some comedy skits based on "life in star trek" and very clearly, vocally supportive of progressive ideals, literally one being "work unions are good and necessary even in the Federation where things should be great for everyone" I got a ton of reccommended videosafter each one, from red hats wearing oakleys sitting in trucks looking down at their phone to yell, one of which was literally titled "unions are destroying America"
My favorite though has to be a video discussing progressive ideals clearly displayed in the original star trek shows from 30+ years ago (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager, and Enterprise) and their tackling of modern socioeconomic and political issues. Non-binary species, white/black patterned species, extremely on-the-nose metaphors for the holocaust and palestine/israel/Gaza, and literally outright showing "fuck your racism here's a kiss between a white man and a black woman with great hair"
And the "up next" video was "NUTREK IS TOO WOKE" by a very angry looking man with a confederate navy jack on the wall.
Youtube seems to base my suggestions on shoots wall of videos with a shotgun style of recommendations.
I do everything in my power to stop Google from tracking me, but when I'm watching youtube videos on youtube, it should be able to gifure itself out.
And "don't recommend this video to me, I don't like it" does nothing. Just to see how long it will keep this up, I keep telling it I don't want to see let's play videos of star trek online. But it sure wants me to see them, dozens of them, daily, sometimes recommending the same video I already told it not to.
And its really been pushing me to watch right-wing conspiracy videos and flat earth videos after whatever I just purposefully clicked on, despite most of my content views being future Sci fi with either apocalyptic levels of devastation on galactic scales, or "post-scarcity utopia where energy is virtually limitless and energy/matter manipulation is easy peasy, usually liberally peppered with anti-capitalist and progressive themes"
And of course "female leads bad because feeeemale".
I'm sure this won't lead to a matrix-style utilization of brains to be a giant literal neural network (lol Duracell batteries) in an apocalyptic future...
I'd say inb4 someone high on copium tries to justify it, but I'm already too late.