• BadEngineering@kbin.social
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    As little sympathy as I normally hold for any Jan 6 rioters, it is downright cruel to house her in a male prison. From what I’ve been able to suss out, she has been transitioned since at least 2004 when she did her legal name change. This is a person who has fully transitioned and been living as a woman for nearly 2 decades. Even though she is a traitorous piece of crap she deserves fair punishment under the law. To me, being a woman put into a male prison population should be considered cruel and unusual.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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      I’m conflicted. I completely agree with you and all of your points, and I don’t want to set a precedent like this.

      But she did vote and advocate for the party that wants to keep misgendering her too…

      Edit: I know folks, I agree with you all, we shouldn’t encourage this. The schadenfreude is sweet, but Ultimately it’s a bad thing. We should treat even the people who are against us with the respect we ask for

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        I look at it this way: we reveal ourselves by how we treat our helpless opponents.

        Perfectly normal to have the emotional response of ‘serves her right.’ The better person has to stop, set the emotion aside, and ask whether the treatment fits their moral framework. If you can’t articulate why a transgendered friend, convicted of some crime, should be cross-housed, then this woman probably shouldn’t be, either.

        Feeling conflicted is good - it’s your rational brain fighting with your emotional brain and winning.

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          We (LGBTQ) cant keep tolerating intolerance, or else we are going to end up without rights.

          “We have to be the better person”, “We reveal ourselves by how we treat our helpless opponents”, etc… until we end up shot dead like that woman that put up the rainbow flag.

          Fuck that.

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            Having her serve her sentence in the appropriate prison isn’t tolerating intolerance. She will still be convicted and be in prison for the duration of her sentence.

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        What she voted for is completely independent of what society should be doing. The whole point is that her worldview is fucked and we do not want that worldview informing policy. So celebrating her getting her comeuppance is really just the same revenge fantasy that regressives push in lieu of actual policy.

        She’s very likely going to be sexually assaulted and scarred for life, and I personally feel like this is unacceptable, even if it’s a leopard-eating-face moment.

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          Im not going to lose my sleep for something happening to someone that is electing people that want to take LGBTQ rights away. I agree that she should be in a women’s prision. I am in no way celebrating what’s happening to her, but she elected her own destiny.