So no one thinks I'm a troll, I completely support trans people doing whatever the fuck they want with their bodies. And I don't mind seeing trans stuff. But with that said, I feel like the hundreds and hundreds of posts I see about trans people is not helping. Going off like this site and a few others I browse you'd think trans people are like 40% of people instead of more like 2%.

I feel like constantly putting them in the spotlight, even to say you support them is just contributing to this "trans awareness burnout" I hear about in a lot of my non-leftist conversations. I mean i almost never see posts saying stuff like "I support indigenous Americans/homeless people/etc". And not because we don't, but because it's so obvious we don't feel the need to talk about it. Shouldn't trans people be the same way?

Anywho I'd love to hear thoughts, change my mind or kneel to my clearly superior intellect and dialectical understanding. :kubrick-stare:

  • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    I didn't say you, I don't know you. But plenty of people use rhetoric just like yours to "just ask questions" about these things, and it poisons the well

    • fawx [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Well maybe treating everyone like an enemy at the gate or bad faith actor is really toxic though. It's exhausting trying to stay on this website sometimes when so many people purposefully misinterpret what you say and your intentions when you go out of your way to be deliberate in your word choices.

      Idk I'm a soft guy and I just wish this site would be softer sometimes, the world's hard enough.

        • fawx [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Jesus fucking Christ you're a terrible person.

          • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            Now imagine that it's national news media saying this to and about you, that you should kill yourself, and not someone on an obscure internet forum. Imagine you are slandered endlessly in the public eye as a pedophile, and laws are passed that allow police and vigilantes to brutalize you with impunity as you hear more and more public figures call for your death.

            Now imagine some absolute rando walks in, says the wrongest shit possible and then, when refuted, proceeds to make it all about their feelings and subtly imply its your own fault. You need to gain some perspective here.

            • fawx [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              You're arguing against an absolute scarecrow. When refuted I changed my mind. I specifically and multiple times said I completely support trans people and was asking in the hopes to better support trans people. When told to kill myself I got upset.

              • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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                2 years ago

                Yeah your boilerplate disclaimer does not invalidate your refusal to reckon with the fact that your thought was bad, your post was bad, and you're doubling down on it because you got your feelings hurt. Grow up, you're complaining to people who face actual oppression.