Saying "I wish [x] were dead" isn't the same as "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?", it's not a death threat, it's an expression of powerful and severe hate
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I mean in a lot of languages the line between "expression of hate" and "desire to commit murder" isn't articulated clearly in translations I'm given to understand that in Farsi, "Death to America" just means "Fuck America"; it does not actually mean "Let's Kill Every American"
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Anyway It's pretty much only ever marginalized people who get admonished for wanting anyone to die Other people can openly, repeatedly tell us our lives have no value from the cradle to the grave and we're constantly told we have to hear them out and respect their worth
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For that matter I don't get why it's not worse when ppl say "you belong in a mental institution" To be clear, what they mean when they say that is that I should be removed from society forever, deprived of my autonomy and medicated until my personality is irretrievably shattered
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That's what these people mean when they derisively tell people they should be institutionalized It literally means "you should be taken away against your will and tortured to death"
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But somebody telling me that on Twitter is totally okay and non-actionable whereas me wishing that a truly horrible person was dead is haram. Got it.
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Man I'll get down to brass tacks here I'm too canny to name names in a public space but I'll just say that if I had the Death Note I'd use it without a moment's hesitation If that disgusts and disturbs you then I don't know how the fuck you've been following me this long
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Got a lot of flack for wishing a bunch of transphobes dead (they were gaslighting tf out of me, which is triggering as shit to me) so now I've reworded my pinned tweet to be less blunt and more sciencey.https://twitter.com/Histoire333/status/1286209866282020864 …
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And most might say they would... but... very clear they would not. So here we are...
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