Palestinian solidarity activists have sprayed red paint and locked-on outside the London HQ of Elbit, Israel's largest weapons company.

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So many of my problems with the Lizard in TASM would be solved if they had included several deleted scenes, though they would still have to fix the scary ableist level of eugenics that really cannot be handwaved by 'Oh, it's the character's internalized ableism' like, the fixing a disability trope is already ableist in and of itself, but if they have to keep it bc the character's origin is dependent on it, there were so many ways they could have gone about it that would even be more accurate to the comics (like, at no point in the comics does Curt ever refer to disability as 'weakness' that needs to be wiped out, or that it makes him and therefore disabled people outcasts wtf??), but they went and did THAT, nor does anyone point out the internalized ableism for what it is, and it's so frustrating.

It's also kind of creepy seeing some fans fetishize and romanticize internalized ableism, like, this is a complex thing that requires nuance and sympathy, like any form of internalised bigotry, and however it's approached (bc the disabled aren't a monolith), it's weird to turn it into a soft and sexy uwu thing idk

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“TERF Rhetoric”

I see this term bounced around a lot, and unfortunately it can be used to mean a lot of things. If I read this in a post it could mean literal code words and phrases directly attacking trans women, it could mean discourse commonly found among well-known TERFs, or it could mean someone is using it to mean an unrelated form of exclusion within the larger community. And these are very different things worth distinguishing between.

Unfortunately transphobia has been in feminism far longer than trans acceptance and many well known and foundational writers in feminist literature are TERFs. This should not mean that we end feminism, but it should mean that we are careful about how we approach writings who’s authors were transphobic. Many commonly cited and honestly valid elements of feminism do come from TERF writers: compulsory heterosexuality, for example, was coined and written on extensively by a terf, and any discussion of socialization with regard to gender will be traced back to radical feminism, and likely have been in contact with some TERF along the way.

The common trend of actual TERF rhetoric is to be something you would agree with. They are good at that. The actual hate message is usually hidden under several layers of obfuscation, so they can recall the “completely reasonable post” that you interacted with later when making their case against trans people’s existence. It is insidious and well worth being vigilant against. And they do it deliberately:

There are plenty more of these.

Essentially the best defense is to know what you’re reading, and be able to explain clearly why something is trans excluding radical feminism. And to do that, thanks to overuse of this term, we probably need to make things more clear.

So to break things down better, and declutter a useful word, here are the main types of things people mean when they say “TERF Rhetoric”:

First: Coded Direct Attacks. You can find a number of these reblogged or archived here, as they tend to be the post that are easiest to identify as definitively TERF. These would be posts about “intruders in women’s spaces”, or people “calling themselves gay because they have an undercut”, or I’ll even include talking about “TRAs/Trans Rights Avtivists.” They’re deliberately misleading posts that sound true until you realize they mean trans people. Of any of the kinds of “TERF rhetoric” that you’re likely to see, assuming you don’t frequent TERF forums, they’re the most directly harmful. The transphobia can usually be seen in the post itself if you read it carefully, which they are counting on most people not doing.

Second: Deliberate Ways to Shift Rhetoric and Identity Politics. These tend to be less obvious. I’ve found posts talking about being “purely homosexual” to be worth investigating the origins of, and despite being an issue much more to do with bisexuality, any discussion of “availability to men” warrants the question of who OP is calling men. There are less concrete code words in Second-Type TERF rhetoric, but their purpose is essentially the same as it is in First-Type attacks: they want you to agree with whatever they say on the surface which is deliberately worded in a way that is open to transphobic interpretation later. The statement itself is usually not inherently transphobic, but will often have wording that is deliberately chosen for transphobic reasons.

Third: Topics and Dialogue Styles Often Seen in TERFs. This is where I think that we should be extremely careful about what we are calling TERF rhetoric. Because TERFs have been deliberately speaking into trans accepting spaces making statements designed to be agreed with, as seen above, it isn’t surprising that some people would be picking up their verbal quirks; and by TERF’s definition of also being feminist, some topics they take up are unrelated to trans issues.

Third Type issues are worth knowing about, and if you see a lot of them from the same person it’s worth finding out what they think of trans issues. But do not go around calling trans women TERFs because they’re posting about the word Queer. Don’t assume everyone talking about vaginas is a TERF or even transphobic—trans people of many genders have vaginas. People speaking about men hitting on lesbians are actually usually not making a coded statement about trans women, because men do hit on lesbians and it’s a problem that should be addressed. Do your due diligence if you see a lot of third-type discourse from the same person, but ultimately most of the people you see interacting with this won’t be TERFs, provided you have some taste with who you put on your dash.

Last Type: Other Forms of Community Exclusion. In short: not Trans Excluding Radical Feminists. I understand being upset by or calling out aphobes, or biphobes, or whatever else but I will be very short: if it is not about Trans issues on some level, then it’s not TERF rhetoric. Do not appropriate this. Make your own words. As you can see above it can be under several layers of obfuscation or degrees of separation! But all TERF rhetoric comes back around to deliberate and active transphobia.

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Residents of Kargil demand opening of Kargil - Skardu road

Residents of Kargil demand opening of Kargil – Skardu road

Thousands of people on  Friday in several parts of Kargil Region held a massive protest demanding opening of  Kargil Skardu road.

The major protest of the movement was held in Kargil town after Friday Prayers which was led by several religious ,social and political avtivists.

The protesters were raising slogans against the injustices with the people  and demanded opening Kargil Skardu Road.

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Comey Toys With Your Emotions

The FBI has its strengths, one of which is to spot a crack and exploit it. Jim Comey, whose personal brand has fabulously ping-ponged from being the most hated person to the left when he was blamed for Clinton losing to Trump, and then adored after being fired by Trump, seized the opportunity to accomplish two goals. Re-establish his bona fides as patriot and virtuous head of the FBI, and stand up and out as a public darling.

The rawness of emotion from that slice of anti-Kavanaugh avtivists rivals the anti-war movement of the ’60s or the post-9/11 fear and loathing of terrorists. As invariably happens, the depth of passion rises in inverse proportion to the ability to think critically. It was a crack, and Comey leaped in to exploit it on behalf of his FBI.

We live in a world where the president routinely attacks the F.B.I. because he fears its work. He calls for his enemies to be prosecuted and his friends freed. We also live in a world where a sitting federal judge channels the president by shouting attacks at the Senate committee considering his nomination and demanding to know if a respected senator has ever passed out from drinking. We live in a world where the president is an accused serial abuser of women, who was caught on tape bragging about his ability to assault women and now likens the accusations against his nominee to the many “false” accusations against him.

Tying Kavanaugh’s conduct to Trump, the allegations against him to Trump, is pure exploitation.  You can fairly characterize Kavanaugh’s conduct at the hearing as improper, but of its own accord, not Trumps. And playing the factually non-existent, but emotionally-bonded, connections between Ford’s accusations and Trump, or any personal experience of any other person in America, is pure gaming by Comey, who is far too smart to not realize that he’s inflaming the idiocracy.

But why? This is his chance to restore the public perception of the FBI as the most trusted, beloved and magical law enforcement organization ever. Hoover must be smiling.

In that world, the F.B.I. is now being asked to investigate, on a seven-day clock, sexual assaults that the president says never happened, that some senators have decried as a sham cooked up to derail a Supreme Court nominee, and that other senators believe beyond all doubt were committed by the nominee.

Unmentioned here is that the FBI has already conducted six background checks on Kavanaugh, without any constraints, and found nothing. Great job, guys. There are possible reasons why they came up empty, but Comey neglects to mention them. Even so, if Kavanaugh was as awful as some believe he is, one might suspect something, something, would show up.

Although the process is deeply flawed, and apparently designed to thwart the fact-gathering process, the F.B.I. is up for this. It’s not as hard as Republicans hope it will be.

To be clear, the FBI is pursuing an additional background check. Contrary to the dreams of antagonists, this is not a criminal investigation into Ford’s allegations. for which no authority can or should exist. The FBI does not perform criminal investigations into Americans at the direction of politicians. Would you want them to? And the FBI certainly has the wherewithal, the personnel (as it decides to deploy them) and the ability to interview witnesses.

The question isn’t whether the FBI can, and should, pursue additional background checking. They should and have been charged to do so. If they are limited by their mandate, they have the power to say so in their report back to the Senate, noting that they are of the view that additional people should have been interviewed for reliable results. If the process is “apparently” designed to thwart the “fact-gathering process,” then it will blow back in the Republicans faces.

But what the FBI cannot do is magic. Not that the people who hated the FBI before but loves them at the moment would care or know.

F.B.I. agents are experts at interviewing people and quickly dispatching leads to their colleagues around the world to follow with additional interviews. Unless limited in some way by the Trump administration, they can speak to scores of people in a few days, if necessary.

They will confront people with testimony and other accounts, testing them and pushing them in a professional way. Agents have much better nonsense detectors than partisans, because they aren’t starting with a conclusion.

See what he did there? After establishing plausible cred for failure and shifting inchoate blame onto the bad guys, Comey turns agents into experts. They are trained, but that doesn’t make an “expert.” He just elevated their skills way beyond reality, as is painfully obvious to anyone who has ever read a 302 where a person’s vague benign words were twisted into a conclusory confession. Some agents are better. Some are worse. All are still merely FBI agents.

Comey then sets up a tricky comparison between agents and partisans. It’s true that partisans, seeking to get information to confirm an outcome (like guilt) are particularly bad at detecting “nonsense.” But agents have no magical skills to detect lies. No one does. If the agents pursue their interviews neutrally, as would be expected of them, they will hopefully gather accurate information. But they aren’t any more capable of detecting “nonsense” than anyone else who isn’t blinded by partisanship.

Yes, the alleged incident occurred 36 years ago. But F.B.I. agents know time has very little to do with memory. They know every married person remembers the weather on their wedding day, no matter how long ago. Significance drives memory. They also know that little lies point to bigger lies. They know that obvious lies by the nominee about the meaning of words in a yearbook* are a flashing signal to dig deeper.

Having already spun the “little lie” that agents are experts, Comey goes big claiming that “time has very little to do with memory.” It false and absurd, as is the bizarre choice of analogy. Not only is the analogy false as well, but it’s irrelevant to the interviews. Even if we assume the glaring falsehood that “significance drives memory” was true, there is nothing “significant” about the substance of the interviews to the people being interviewed. Even if I could remember the weather on my wedding day, I wouldn’t remember the weather on yours.

This is one of those brief, shining moments when the unduly passionate want to believe that the FBI will be its salvation, making them once again hysterically popular. Comey is smart to play the fools to manufacture a belief in the agents’ magical powers, as they want so desperately to believe.

But when the FBI is back to its old tricks, rather than finding the evidence to destroy Kavanaugh’s nomination, they will still enjoy the unwarranted myth of their magical powers being built now. The expectation that once the heat is off, people will come back to their sense and realize Comey toyed with their heartstrings gives people far too much credit. Comey saw the crack and exploits it. The crack is emotion, and its wide enough to get you to believe anything.

*Others have asserted with certainty that Kavanaugh’s testimony about the meaning of words and phrases in his yearbook was false. Having no personal knowledge, I wouldn’t know. While the arguments that he lied about the meaning of these words appears strong, I am unaware as yet of any conclusive evidence to that effect. Comey (and almost everyone twitter) finds it obvious. I prefer evidence before reaching a conclusion.

Comey Toys With Your Emotions republished via Simple Justice

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