This is why Amerikkka attacked its own education system. Its why your school’s funding is based on the houses in the fucking area.
that is why they call it liberalism. obviously you can’t build a society on just “everybody should just do whatever” but that is the core belief that liberalism is named after
Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think the problem is compounded by the way identity politics has been melded with that liberal individualism. Identity politics is useful for describing and analysing political / material effects where identity plays a factor. But I’ve seen a swathe of arguments from the younger liberals that “a personal interaction which isn’t what I want” = “an attack on my group identity”. The over-conflation of the personal and collective damaging to the cause of liberation of marginalised groups imo
I feel like
Isn’t that kind of the elephant in the room?
I’m definitely guilty of this myself. Just making assumptions based on my limited life experiences, if I wanted to be thorough, shouldn’t I be doing research? Like population surveys and that sort of stuff, but the ones who are most able to do those things are pro-establishment institutions. It would be interesting to survey Hexbearers on their core beliefs, how they view the world, maybe someone can do a thing like that.
Unlike Marxism which correctly says “if something makes me feel good, it’s BAD!”
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SWERFism isn’t allowed here
I didn’t feel like that needed to be in the CoC until I read the prior comment and went looking for it to be explicitly stated
I don’t think Women should be forced to sell their bodies to survive. I have nothing against sex-workers, but I am thoroughly opposed to the lecherous sex industry.
I don’t think anyone should be forced to sell their bodies to survive. Yay capitalism!
Your original comment doesn’t distinguish that very well.
i would think in a communist space it would be a given that people hate the industry, not the workers. “sex work is work” is a slogan that’s usually used to endorse the industry, e.g. when hasan piker went on twitter to brag about being a sex tourist in germany
Thank you. I had assumed this would be most people’s interpretation of my comment, but I should have clarified better.
I think it’s clear I’m not the only person who read more into the comment than was intended by it. It’s great that she’s clarified.
I mean, a ton of the replies are literally 100% the usual SWERF party line, so her dogwhistle obviously worked exactly as she intended.
“sex work is work” is a slogan that’s usually used to endorse the industry
no it isn’t, crawl back to your misogynist hellspace over on incelgrad
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I have nothing against sex-workers
I’m not buying that for one second.
what is that and why do you think I am it?
- Sex-work exclusionary radical feminism
- Because of your prior comment
“Sex work is work” is a completely meaningless, thought termintating cliche and peak liberalism. It is about as insightful as “child labor is work”. Capitalism forces Women into positions where they are forced to sell their consent at great risk for themselves. I don’t support this. If you have an image of me as a puritanical, anti-sex freak, it is wrong.
If sex work is work and all work is performed via coercion under capitalism… Then sex work is coerced sex. We have a different word for that usually.
I don’t support anything that will harm sex workers, but I do support the gradual elimination of the conditions that give rise to a sex industry and thus the elimination of the industry altogether and its reduction down to solely hobbiests doing it for free because they actually want to.
If sex work is work and all work is performed via coercion under capitalism… Then sex work is coerced sex. We have a different word for that usually.
Yes, this always struck me when I saw people say “sex work is just work, all work is coercive”. Of course, there are different degrees of coercion in sex work (“voluntary”, meaning coercive only as much as work usually is so long as the laborer can find different work, vs. human trafficking where there is strictly no choice at all, etc.) and many measures people claim are for the benefit of sex workers are counterproductive, but I think just saying “sex work is work” ignores the clear difference in impact of, for example, being forced to re-shelve library books for a day vs. being forced to prostitute oneself for a day.
And also of course, the implication when saying “sex work is work” that it should be regulated and have safety standards like any other job is also correct.
It is about as insightful as “child labor is work”
Very well put, and a great analogy because in both cases it isn’t the worker that we are attacking but the employer and industry. People who go on about “SWERFs” constantly don’t understand this fundamental point, that we aren’t attacking the sex worker but the john, the pimp and the sex work industry as a whole.
You are a politically myopic clown, measures like the Nordic Model are proven to increase harm to sex workers.
I thought it was used in the sense that a lot of people don’t view sex workers as laborers, and therefore don’t think about legalisation of prostitution and having sex workers legally recognize as laborers, which would give sex workers the same rights as other laborers, which is better explained here.
Proving OP’s (both of them) point here.
proving what exactly
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