“If we teach only the findings and products of science — no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be — without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?” ― Carl Sagan

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I would just add if they would stop funding Israels genocide to that list

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Trans folks are a useful test because it includes the underlying question "if you can't protect trans folks, how can I trust you to protect anyone other than powerful white men?" Even transphobes should care about trans rights, because all they're really asking for are human rights.

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Similarly, if you don’t have a day one plan to protect Trans people, you’re going to the back of the line. Show me a fucking policy proposal. Show me how you will make your pretty rhetoric into action.

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My purity test consists of two things: 1: how will you protect trans existence? Show me how you will materially do this through policy and not simply in rhetoric. 2: what is your plan to address the social, political, and economic consequences of the Trump administration? What does that look like?

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