My sister is an emergency doctor in a deep "blue" (aka right-wing) area in Germany, and she sent me this photo of a button she and her colleagues are wearing when on duty: "Your are safe with me."
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@josh Not sure, might be just what they had. Others in this thread also asked, maybe because it is assumed to have wider reach.
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My sister is an emergency doctor in a deep "blue" (aka right-wing) area in Germany, and she sent me this photo of a button she and her colleagues are wearing when on duty: "Your are safe with me." on a Progress Pride flag.
This is so awesome!
@blondy Winner-button! 🫶🫂
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@daisE @alxndr @thisislieven @CyclesSmiles That is unfortunately so true!
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@CyclesSmiles @blondy I strongly belief in the right to freedom of thought and religion but if what you believe in goes against the values of society at large and hinders the rights of others it should be your problem. Go find a job where you don't have to deal with others.
Freedom of religion, even in the most progressive societies, still functions in one direction only.
Can't deal with queer folk? Don't be a medical professional, don't have a shop, don't do anything that requires you to interact with and help others.
That's not a burden society places on you, that's the burden you placed on yourself.
(yours is not a boomer sentiment by the way, it's the sentiment of any decent person)
@thisislieven @CyclesSmiles @blondy you're sentiment might be true for the united states but the part of Germany the afd is strongest, and this doctor is working, is the one with the least religious people. There are even statistics showing the less religious someone is there the more they lean into rightwing ideas and vote afd.
The secular right has a long history of queerphobia due to eugenicist and conformist ideas. They do not need a god for this.
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My sister is an emergency doctor in a deep "blue" (aka right-wing) area in Germany, and she sent me this photo of a button she and her colleagues are wearing when on duty: "Your are safe with me." on a Progress Pride flag.
This is so awesome!
@blondy I live in a place in Melbourne where there's similar stickers in near every shop window. They even have them everywhere in the hospitals and healthcare providers.
Everyone should wear these badges in healthcare
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@thisislieven @CyclesSmiles @blondy you're sentiment might be true for the united states but the part of Germany the afd is strongest, and this doctor is working, is the one with the least religious people. There are even statistics showing the less religious someone is there the more they lean into rightwing ideas and vote afd.
The secular right has a long history of queerphobia due to eugenicist and conformist ideas. They do not need a god for this.
@Zahlenzauberin @CyclesSmiles @blondy What makes you think I speak from a US perspective? I'm European, and proudly so.
And I specifically mentioned freedom of thought.
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@Zahlenzauberin @CyclesSmiles @blondy What makes you think I speak from a US perspective? I'm European, and proudly so.
And I specifically mentioned freedom of thought.
@thisislieven @CyclesSmiles @blondy you felt the need to extra specifically point out freedom of religion. So I commented on that.
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@thisislieven @CyclesSmiles @blondy you felt the need to extra specifically point out freedom of religion. So I commented on that.
@Zahlenzauberin @CyclesSmiles @blondy Yes. Because while there is plenty of discrimination and hate coming from a secular perspective it still finds it origin in religion.
There's plenty of religious hate even in secular countries but also, even in Germany, religious views get a kind of protection that isn't granted when that same point of view isn't presented as religious.
To pretend that's not a thing is silly, even in the most secular and/or progressive areas or countries.And on top of that, the far right is creating a religious narrative, also here in Europe including Germany. That has been very much a thing the last few years, to start with so-called 'Judeo-Christian values'.
Anyway, I'm tapping out of this. I am really not in the mood for someone jumping on something that simply wasn't written in the way they act like it was.
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