In an interview with Teen Vogue, Dasha explained what the interview was like. “When I realized I was on Infowars,
I was excited because I figured they would say something crazy and
funny,” she said. “It wasn’t hard to ‘own’ Ashton because nothing she
said made sense or even followed a logical train of thought. I was
honestly stunned when she started talking about rats, so a lot of what’s
happening with me in the video is sheer bewilderment.”
She also
explained her “worms in your brains” comment: “When I said, ‘I just want
people to have healthcare, honey,’ one of their reporters said
off-camera, ‘That’s what Hugo Chavez said,’” Dasha said. “And when I
looked in their eyes, they seemed so sick and crazy, like they had
parasites in their brain that were making them say all this stupid,
confused sh*t.”
Dasha went on to share why she expressed her
support for free universal healthcare, saying, “As an uninsured person, I
feel personally victimized by the idea that anyone should be denied
healthcare. Poor people shouldn’t get sick and die because they can’t
afford to see a doctor, obviously,” she said. She also made a point to
distinguish her socialist beliefs from mainstream liberalism.
“When Infowars
posted the clip on YouTube, they titled it ‘Liberals Defend Socialism
at Bernie Sanders Event,’” she said. “It seems like there is a lot of
conservative confusion and conflation of ‘liberal’ and ‘leftist.’
“I’m
a democratic socialist and a Bernie supporter and believe in things
like wealth redistribution and socialized healthcare,” she said. “I’m
not even an especially political or radical person — I read Marx in
college, which affirmed my views that capitalism is evil and responsible for many of our social ills, which feels to me like common sense having experienced poverty.”
An Infowars post appears to indicate that the original video of Dasha has been removed. But Dasha wanted to make sure future generations could see her answers.
“I
posted the video on my Twitter for posterity,” she said, “and I thought
it was funny [that] they took it down because they’re such failures.”
“The white stripe stands for nb so you can’t use it…”
Actually it stands for transition but fine I’ll use this instead. Black stands for dysphoria and transition. Nothing else.
1. the trans woman who designed the original trans flag describes the design as follows:
“The stripes at the top and bottom are light blue, the traditional color for baby boys. The stripes next to them are pink, the traditional color for baby girls. The stripe in the middle is white, for those who are intersex, transitioning or consider themselves having a neutral or undefined gender. The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it is always correct, signifying us finding correctness in our lives.”
2.
this has been the flag for black trans people since at least 2016, designed by a black trans woman in honor of black trans liberation tuesday after a number of trans women of color were murdered in 2015. try again dipshit.
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