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Aella
@Aella_Girl
One cheap debate trick is reframing opposing opinions as having some sort of 'moral failure' and therefore foregoing all rights. For example, lots of attempts to shut down 'open debate' do so by framing the opposing opinions not as wrong, but as as "interruptive"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
For example, this piece of work that showed up on my FB feed. They're justifying shutting down dissenting speech not because of wrongness, but because they "exhaust" people and implying everyone has to stop what they're doing to turn around to "deal with" these opinions.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
This is the same as shutting down speech because it comes from someone outside of the class of people "morally approved" to express opinions about things - for example, refusing to allow "oppressor" classes to speak.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
To be clear, I'm not saying that the "oppressor" classes are necessarily right, but only that we shouldn't prevent people from speaking because of moral judgments. If your position is strong and you understand it well, then you shouldn't be threatened by by dissenters.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
I also feel like the queer community suffers deeply from this problem. In most of my interactions with them they require very high 'moral signalling' before they agree to engage with any discussion or questions. They seem to feel highly threatened by dissent.
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Spindizzy
@Spindizzy17
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@Aella_Girl
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@Bearbastard
Really you've never heard anyone insist trans people are mentally ill? Bi people are just confused? Ace people just haven't found the right person yet? Homosexuality is a life style choice/totally a thing that can be cured? Lot's of ways of saying lgtb people shouldn't exist
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Bearbastard
Saying a trans person is mentally ill is not saying a trans person shouldn't exist? If I think "liking potatoes" means they have a mental illness then where am I getting "people who like potatoes have no right to exist"?
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