Originally Posted by Itse
I understand that you feel weird, but you need to understand that this is 100% a situation where you are weirding yourself out by thinking about the hypothetical genitals of people around you.
This is also the very literal definition of bigotry, and that it's hateful speech even if you don't realize it yourself. You are openly saying that you oppose even the existence of certain people near you. You say that you are worried about what they might do (and yeah, those fears are irrational and silly), but that's not the real problem here.
Again, for you, certain people just existing around you is bad, to an extent that you believe that laws can and should be passed so that certain people couldn't exist around you. Being woke means being against that kind of thinking.
What you are saying is the very definition of hate speech and bigotry, I'm sorry. People that weird you out will always exist no matter how you feel about that, and they have always existed even when you didn't know about them, and they do need to use restrooms and changing rooms like everyone else. They also have a right to work in whatever field they want, and they should be able to compete in sports like everyone else, and just generally they should be allowed to not just exist but to have relatively normal lives.
You don't need to understand something to accept that it's not actually a danger to you or anyone else, and you can learn to accept that all kinds of people have a right to exist around you. You can learn to understand that you are not better or more special than others, and thus you have no right to rule over them.
If you feel weird, feel weird, it's fine. Just understand that you should be an adult about it and keep it to yourself. This is most of what being "woke" means.
We "woke" people do tend to make fun of conservatives, and sometimes evangelicals, and especially these days we are increasingly creeped out by the extremely weird s*** that conservative politicians keep saying.
However, because we are "woke", we are not saying that conservatives should be banned from existing around us. This is the main difference between being woke and not being woke. This is why there is no morally justifiable way to vote conservative in this day and age. Political conservatism has become a fundamentally hateful and immoral political movement, obsessed with dominating over people who are not conservative and making their lives a misery for no other reason than to hurt them. It's no longer about sound policy, it's about control over not just minorities, but also liberals and progressives.
Conservative politics are devoured by the will to ban the existence of certain people and upsetting liberals as a cause in it's own. It's a movement of adults throwing a collective fit over losing their power to not being able to tell other people whether or not they have a right to exist. It's hateful, but it's also childish.
You could grow up too, if you so chose. You don't have to choose to be constantly thinking about unusual human bodies and their genitals, and forming your political identity around such thoughts.
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