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spe·cial plead·ing
/ˈspeSHəl ˈplēdiNG/
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noun: special pleading

    argument in which the speaker deliberately ignores aspects that are unfavorable to their point of view.
    "he has produced a piece of special pleading that does not wholly stand up"
        appeals to give a particular interest group special treatment.
        "we heard his special pleading for his constituency"

Insisting that the only actions that could have merit to the people that passed the bill in Tenn, must be actions done in Tenn, is indeed special pleading.  It is so, because it ignores outside actions, because they are unfavorable to the position you already hold.

Again, the thing they should dial back on is the anger and vitriol in full public display on public places (as they are not as insular and gated as they like to think they are, and stoke these fires quite intensely), and they should avoid playing the part of the Karen, whenever and wherever possible.

The mainstream media takes even the most miniscule numbers of such incidents, and magifies the public perception of them millions of times over.

That amplification has real effects.

Did you not read my first post to vector to the end sir?

Does your reading comprehension skills have such deficit that you are unable to see how your arrogant stance that I must be for "ZERO PUSHING!", when I have outright stated against that, and instead been suggesting a different form of pushing this entire goddamn time, is a strawman?

I am not your enemy here. 


As for "Who is Karen"--

"What is Karen" is a better question.

"Karen" is a pejorative term used to describe an entitled person (usually a white female), who demands special exemptions to established rules or social conventions, for entirely self-serving reasons. They often demand to speak to the manager, and cause nothing but grief and misery to everyone else around them, until they get their way.  They tend to be universally loathed.

FINALLY, A CONSTRUCTIVE QUESTION!
(and since I happen to be asexual, and thus AM A PART OF THE LGBT, I can answer meaningfully too!!)

To me, my orientation is not even accepted well even in the LGBT cadre, and is often passed off as 'Afraid to admit their REAL sexuality!' or some other nonsense.   My actual sexuality can really only be accepted, once people become comfortable with accepting that other sexualities besides their own can be out in full display.  As such, I am very much aware that such a thing is nowhere near the horizon for me, and I will endure the bullshit of "Well, you just havent met the right person yet" for the rest of my life.

No, there is not right person. I am asex.

I live in a world that disadvantages people who are such, through a myriad of ways, owing to the fact that as a legit asex person, I am never going to father children, and society focuses entirely too much on procreation, and incentivizes procreation, even when that procreation is not actually desirable. (For instance, when that process produces children that are inevitably going to suffer from lasting physical and mental harm from being impoverished, et al. It is simply irresponsible to do in those conditions, but society still rewards it.)

I am however, very patient, and see that the time for asex people to start pushing, is AFTER the other, more obviously sexual demographics become mainstream accepted, and not before.  This is because the society cannot assimilate that change at this time.  Society has to first become comfortable with other kinds of non-procreative sexuality FIRST.

Now then-- about more immediate things to be done with Tenn--

Those tools seek to create aparthied, de-facto.  They seek to exclude LGBT people from all manner of public places, through placing an onerous restriction on businesses.


I suggest that instead of going full Karen on Twitter, and giving them ammo to use about how the LGBT community are a bunch of spoiled, entitled Karens, that you instead calmly and rationally approach those 180+ major corporations-- that the raging idiots that passed this bill will have ONE HELL OF A HARD TIME living without--- to OPENLY practice the law they demanded-- by opening to LGBT people, AND to bigots, alike, like they ALREADY want to do-- They just now have to put a stupid little sign out front saying such.

This is because those big corporations know something that the idiots in Tenn do not--- The times are changing, and that change is now inevitable. Trying to be the tacit enforcers of this bullshit move is fundementally self-destructive to those businesses-- that is why they would rather drop the entire state of Tenn like a radioactive potato, than do such a thing.

What does this accomplish?

It turns the tables on what the idiots demanding the aparthied want--- The only people standing apart, will be themselves, and their small (and thus statistically less able to survive a loss of customers) businesses-- Further, they will have the open offer to come and be with everyone else, any time.

It flips the calculus on its head.

That is why you should do it.

It is unoffensive, because it does not ostracise by its rhetoric or action.  It is fundementally inclusive, in the face of ribald attempts at exclusion.  Screaming like Karens on twitter does not accomplish that, and instead, fuels the righteous indignation of the idiots that passed this attrocious bill.

It is EXACTLY those things.

And was used in EXACTLY those ways.


Again, you are falling into the "Simply ignore" black hole.  You should not "Simply ignore" that younger people, who will persist MUUUUUCH longer than the "Already near expiration" boomer demographic, are adopting those views, and spreading them.

This is because that happening, is exactly my thesis.

(That is to say, the boomers making idiotic opinion pieces are indeed cases of "Old man yells at cloud"-- but when 20 somethings do it, you have a problem. Those 20 somethings will persistently resist meaningful progress for decades.)

Mine consumed a literal ton of organic matter.

(as in, a full 2000lbs of it, dry weight, were tilled in.)

Despite this, growth is slow.  The only things up are the squash, the pumpkins, and (some) of the green beans.

I installed a sexy mister watering system too. 


I have noted that a teeny number of carrot seedlings have done their thing, but considering I CARPET BOMBED that part of the garden, it should be much more than has come up.  Similar story with the swiss chard, and the herbs I planted.

Oh well.  Time will tell.

That is a whitewash and you know it frumple.

More often than not, the heavy pushers want to just demonize thier political adversaries, and blatantly ignore (Or worse, double-down on the adversarial rhetoric).

Since you mention suffrage; see the large number of newspaper editorials written by younger people contemporary with the issue, focusing on the malactions of the more bombastic suffragists. (Drinking, swearing, and smoking in public, and generally being offensive instead of constructively demonstrating that yhe arguments being made against them were bogus: women were incapable of being sensible and rational voters. The offensive among the demographic thereby postponed adoption of suffrage, rather than hastening it.) Those editorials were a central pillar of the organized anti-suffrage campaign cited in the paper below. The malactors provided the anti-suffrage movement potent and powerful tools to suppress suffrage.

Contemporary history focuses on the malactors, and wants to paint them as being heroic, but the actual movement's progress was mostly made by the non-beligerant, non-militant, who demonstrated through action that they could indeed be trusted with the vote. (1)

Dont engage in the whitewash.

Humanity is ugly with warts. Accepting the warts is how you advance its appearance.

See also the large bodies of research about getting people to agree with you, by appeasing their positions first.(1)

When you double-down on the offensiveness train, because it makes you feel righteous, you actually hamstring the progress of the movement you are claiming to advance.


NOTE-- this is NOT an advocation of "not pushing".  DO NOT CONSIDER IT SO, IT IS NOT THAT THING.

What it actually IS, is an admonishment against pushing TOO HARD, to the point of being obstinate, and offensive, rather than constructive and considerate.

The notion that "You CANT push too hard!" is at fault here.

I really, REALLY, **REALLY** do NOT want to be "That Guy" here, but--

This kind of backlash is what **ALWAYS** happens when social change is pushed at a rate faster than the civilization at large can assimilate.

EVERY.

SINGLE.

TIME.


Does it suck for LGBT people that such advance has to be done slowly? You bet your ass it does.
But want to know what sucks more?  Shit like just went down in Tennessee.


Cultural change is a slow, multigenerational affair.  Not something that you can keep on pushing for, and expect not to have backlash on, if you push too much.  It does not matter what the kind of change is you are trying to affect.  Doing it too fast, will result in the creation of entrenched "resistance" factions, which will styme all efforts for much longer than if you had just permitted slower, assimilatable progress.

For a significantly less politicized analog, see the advance of dogma in academia.  It happens at a rate commensurate with the deaths of tenured professors.

So, ask yourself a series of honest questions:

Are the boomers dead yet?

and

Are the boomers still a significant factor in the trajectory of the nation's politics?

UNLESS the answers to those questions are "YES" and "NO" respectively, you will have to accept the slower rate of assimilation.  Same as with academic publishing against established dogmas. You have to wait for the old professors to die.

The fact that the old professors refuse to fucking die, and actively shit on better research, is notwithstanding.  It is how the social assemblage functions.

Efforts to ram-rod that change through, because of impatience or selfishness (eg, believing it is ONLY about LGBT people, and everyone else can go suck it), will only stymie any further efforts for improvement in the future, because the CURRENT generation will be sensitized to your hamfisted antics, and will be the next demographic to stymie your efforts-- Progress will ultimately be SLOWER than if you had just accepted the rate the social construct could assimilate the change.