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    6 days ago

    Or it’s genius because anyone who has some shit to post in a real community either decides it’s better for here, where it can be enjoyed and it doesn’t drown out the real content, or they try it there, the mod stops them, and instead of getting all butthurt about it they can bring it here where it gets seen by more people anyway and still the real community stays pure.






  • You’ve made a lot of incorrect assumptions in that long screed.

    Guess what?

    I’m not trans.

    I’m not mentally ill.

    I think it’s worth thinking about the erasure and maltreatment of trans people.

    I’m not going to let you do it without pointing it out.

    Fascists start with the most vulnerable members of society, and they tell the rest of society that they can’t have relief from their own problems like shortages of food and housing until they leave behind those people.

    You’re falling into that trap, and it’s especially sad since you too are part of a group that they’ll say should be left behind. They already consider autistic people as damaged as trans people, it’s the dark current underlying the antivax narrative.

    It’s not only possible to care about trans people, people with disabilities, abortion rights, mail-in voting, homeless people, immigrants, healthcare inequity, poverty, food insecurity, and worker abuse at the same time, it’s easy because they all come down to the same essential thing.

    Taking away from one of us takes from all of us. To forget that is to forswear your own humanity.



  • Then you should have worded it in a way that actually supports trans people.

    If I said, “If you see the homeless people in the streets, the unaffordable gas prices, and the moms who can’t feed their children, and you’re still blaming immigrants, you’re either a racist or an idiot” you wouldn’t assume I was contrasting racists and idiots, you would know I was putting them in the same boat.

    There’s a lot of better ways you could have written your comment if that’s not what you intended.

    And even if I grant you the most leeway possible, you’re still throwing the trans people under the bus by saying nobody else should be thinking about them, even if it’s in a supportive way.

    I didn’t downvote your original comment at first because I hate to do that, but now that I’m seeing how deep you want to dig this grave for yourself, I’m going to do so because you’re a waste of Internet space.