2) When that happens, don't give me this "How were we supposed to know that validating transphobia would lead to an attack?" You're creating a world where it's fine to attack trans people if they dare to use "your" bathrooms. When you finally radicalize someone, that's on you.
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3.) Do you know why I fight to deplatform Nazis? It's because when they put out ideas like this, it tells violent people that it's okay to hurt certain classes of people.
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5.) I'm not making a Nazi metaphor out of nowhere, either. Seriously, I fight the alt-right. I know them well enough to infiltrate and pass as them. Do you know what every faction of them agrees on? Three things-- nationalism, Islamophobia, and transphobia.
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6.) Overseas, they call the issue the "transgender debate." At the end of the 19th century, they had another euphemism to politely debate a class of human being's existence. The "Jewish question."
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7.) This is what you're doing by publishing
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8.) If you can live with that, so be it. But the rest of us won't forget how easily you wrapped your paper in fascist talking points. The first attack on a trans person? I'll be here to remind people that it was you who helped this violence into all of ours lives. <thread>
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