Someone else has the right to say I'm an immortal made in the image of a god but not to make me believe it/say it/live according to it.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
how is verbal abuse different/special (if you consider it different)?
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Replying to @fronxer
If it's aimed at people & their right not to be forced to listen to it is violated.Freedom of speech does not include forcing others to hear
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Replying to @HPluckrose
that makes sense. i wonder how that might actually be quite related to the issue of misgendering, because it happens in a distributed way
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Replying to @fronxer
No-one should be allowed to abuse trans ppl. No-one shld force anyone else to adopt their view on gender & use its terminology.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
there is a conflict between those two wishes, though, isn't there?
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Replying to @fronxer
I don't think so. A Christian/Muslim who believes God made everyone's genitalia the gender they shld be is not abused by others saying no.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
again i wonder whether the implied symmetry is valid, or whether positions have to be assessed concretely in a given social context.
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Replying to @fronxer
I think that would be dangerous. It essentially comes down to a 'But I'm right so I can express my beliefs. You're wrong so you can't.'
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Replying to @HPluckrose
it does, and i agree that it's risky. but i wonder if the way such classifications are made could be made less arbitrary … somehow.
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I'm not sure how. Ppl have the right to be wrong. The world is not 6000 yrs old but ppl must have the right to say it is. Then we respond.
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