(CW: transphobia) If you're thinking of voting Green, you may wish to reconsider
(CW: transphobia) If you're thinking of voting Green, you may wish to reconsider
Oh what a surprise, the guy who was real concerned about the Uyghur Genocide is a transphobe. Can't believe these clowns keep rooking leftists, who should know better, into voting for them. Death to liberals
I say this as someone who knocked doors for Ralph Nader as a teenager in 2004 and got yelled at by people in a bipartisan way
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They need to get beyond impromptu quasi celebrity picks.
I believe Butch is out of line with platform policy, which he has to have read and agreed to. Guy is good on Gaza, crap other things.
https://www.gp.org/transgender
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Supposedly he had talks with the Lavender Greens and a statement is incoming. Feeling queezy already.
Celebrity?? Who the fuck even is this guy?
He's some acedemic PhD historian of West Africa. I don't know how else to describe flashy people in acedemia. He's not as famous as say Carl Sagan or those other very public talk show scientists. Stein said she had a list of people whose names were making their way around the pro Palestinian student activist circles and this is who she chose. I never heard of the guy before he was vaulted to a VP slot.
He's fucked up with this and the China uyigur thing and I thunk he needs to
on topics that aren't his wheelhouse, and stop falling for stupid trap interviews. He's in acedemia circles. He's a professor. He should know kids and have all that training and experience with transgender students who will now not feel safe if he goes back to teaching.He's been nothing but spitting L's past Gaza and not only is he spreading bullshit and making the party look bad, but he's spreading consent for hate and discrimination. That's not fucking cool. That's not what the Green Party professes. Not the Green Party I know. As VP he is representing the party and supposdly the platform on the ticket, and his imperalism and ignorance, which leads to his transphobia, selective or not, transphobia is transphobia which pisses me the fuck off as the Greens are better than that.
Obviously transgenders have a right to play sports with their peers. Exclusionary policies only teach others to hate and division which lead to discrimination throughout life. It fosters depression lonliness isolation which denies a person equal rights and equal worth within society. The Greens know this or at least should know this, and update their public facing stuff to specifically address this. Ware needs a serious dressing down and education. He's become a liability. I"m not on Xhitter otherwise I'd dress him down myself.
And it is on Stein and whatever commitee process she has to properly vet this kind of stuff. So that L oversight is on her.
I got into a mild disagreement with that first person on Twitter in that screenshot you're linking, after Butch Ware started whining about the Uyghurs. She was begging everyone to look at the platform and not the candidate (lol), for the sake of unity against the genocide in Palestine. What I told her was that liberals aren't a reliable ally on Palestine or anything else. I had to restrain myself from telling her "I told you so" after this clown started in on the transphobia.