If you have no view, why are you tweeting obsessively about this?
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And nobody claimed that they were, I was explaining how a statement of fact can be offensive.
Hugo. This is the point. The people who find the stickers offensive (not trans people but people who see the GC view as offensive) find it offensive in *every* context. So by your formula the moral thing for GC people to do is stay quiet to avoid giving offense.
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That doesn't follow, no. I think gender critical views can be expressed in a non-offensive way, and that even if they cannot, there is no moral imperative to always restrain from doing anything that offends other people.
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But, and here is where we disagree, I do not think these were simply the least offensive way of expressing a gender critical view. See all the many claims of "self defence" I have heard.
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Your argument is that expressions of the GC view should not be criminalised, but the the world would be a happier place if they were not expressed, and that people who do are "behaving very badly and should stop"?
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Again, no that is not my argument. Context and mode of expression also matter. The very last thing I am doing is saying anyone should be required to shut up: I wrote in defence of freedom of expression for the women concerned.
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