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  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Your using identity unconstructively as a rhetorical cudgel. We can bully reactionaries on blahaj zone and we'll get plenty of attacks, but they probably won't be queerphobic beyond endless remarks about exactly who is fellating Putin.

    • Esoteir [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      you're right, the small minority of queer specific lemmy instances probably won't launch queerphobic attacks

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Even the main lib hives probably won't, they will be horrible chauvinists in a more first-world "progressive" way for the most part.

        • Esoteir [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          the average lib is pretty queerphobic, just scratch them regarding hormone blockers or neopronouns

          • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            They are also racist, but I don't expect them to be talking about FBI crime stats and the 14 words. If anything, their duplicity is helpful for how it makes them pull their punches in a way that is incongruous with their beliefs.

            • Esoteir [he/him]
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              1 year ago

              so queer users will be taking punches, albeit pulled?

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Oh hey, I can use the desktop version again maybe

                Anyway, no, I don't think they would, not aimed at them anyway. I suppose there are worse reactionaries who are generally "closeted" about their transphobia, but that's true of any population so the question is if it's okay for us to have new users on any basis other than individuals who passed rigorous interrogation.

                • Esoteir [he/him]
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                  1 year ago

                  You don't think liberals will attack queer users in regards to hormone blockers or neopronouns?

                  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    No, I don't. I think they'll probably stick to "well don't you know castro killed people like you lmao?" and gems like that.

                      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                        1 year ago

                        There's a massive difference between the self-selection for surveys and the self-selection for being on Lemmy, and I was here for that one. People didn't like needing to assign them to themselves for various reasons (including reactionary ones) and various other things, but people didn't misgender other users or mock them for having such-and-such pronouns (though a couple of times specific sets were taken as gags that weren't).

                        And all I'm saying is the liberal sense of etiquette means they just won't voice their transphobia to a person like they might on a survey, same as how they wouldn't jeer at a black person even if they would get nervous seeing one (1) black teenager walking down the street.