the last time I had to block this many people was when the pro-life crowd came streaming in accusing me of being a brutal baby murderer. Can I just make the pro-life and radical trans people fight each other
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Have you considered maybe considering why people are angry and engaging in some mild self examination rather than jumping to the conclusion that trans people who disagree with your shoddy psychoanalysis of trans identity are "radical" and comparable to vitriolic pro lifers?
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If I were talking shit about trans people then maybe I could see it, but I literally asked a question and people think I have some hidden TERF agenda and are misinterpreting stuff I'm saying.
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I don't think people care about your "agenda", but beliefs can carry harmful subtexts and tacet premises even if you don't realize it. You can do whatever you want, but I'd suggest listening to the experiences of trans people and why they take issue with what you said.
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Like i've said lots of times, I am absolutely open to having a discussion about why or why not this might be harmful, but I don't want to have this discussion with people who view me as a piece of shit.
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That's fair. By the same logic, do you see why some trans people might not be overly enthusiastic to argue with someone using the same thoroughly debunked rhetoric that has been used to invalidate them by hateful people in the past, regardless of your personal intent?
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No. I continually engage with stuff that's been thoroughly debunked without being an asshole to people who still believe it.
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So you cant imagine why marginalized people might be sensitive to and instinctively retaliate at the rhetoric of their oppressors? Youre telling me if somebody completely naively and innocently asked "why are jews so rich?", you cant imagine why a Jewish person would be offended?
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