It's the fact that, as @transscribe brings up in your article, deciding that someone saying transphobic shit is no big deal is a very clear signal that someday you'll think compromising on trans rights is no big deal
Regardless of what your website says right now
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The thing I said about obnoxiousness being a test? It cuts both ways Joe Rogan and his fans are plenty obnoxious, and that's an issue of signaling too - embracing them is making a bet that we'll be willing to tolerate what we find obnoxious about them because of Trump
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And yes, it's telling of where someone's internal priorities are - their sense of virtue, to get all philosophy 101 about it - when they think it's okay to tell us to tolerate their obnoxiousness but not them to tolerate ours
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It depends on who thinks they are being the bigger person. It's why when an adult screams at a child we give the adult crap. We presume the adult knows better and for the sake of everyone else in line the adult should pick a better strategy. But in this case, the child can vote.
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