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In reply to the discussion: RadFeminists are making it difficult for the Democratic party to fight the GOP's attack on women [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)it's saying that the existence of those people does not determine who I am - I don't define myself in the way that they do - and others need not, either.
That's moving away from the dominant paradigm.
That's also providing a different frame to undermine the fundamentalist pov - while acknowledging, at the same time, that this nation offers the 1st amendment right of those with whom I vehemently disagree to express that opinion and to face objection to it and argument against it.
you simply cannot frame this as you being someone who really cares and others who find freedom of expression important beyond on particular issue as selfish.
the way you frame this is lacking in intellectual rigor. others can have an opinion that you don't share for reasons that are equally valid.