Wrong then and wrong now. I'd be deeply surprised by seeing that from that era too.
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Replying to @telreth @TheShyWoof and
Well of course you would That's why they burned all the fucking books The intention was erasure and your ignorance is proof of their success How is this not getting through
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Replying to @arthur_affect @telreth and
It's not getting through because the person you're talking to seems to exclusively follow TERs like there's nothing else to their personality.
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Replying to @TheShyWoof @arthur_affect and
Don't assume a twitter feed defines a person. This is the animating issue for me on twitter. Not for life in general.
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Replying to @telreth @arthur_affect and
Imagine admitting, publicly, that prejudice towards trans people is your "animating issue".
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Replying to @TheShyWoof @arthur_affect and
Again, not my position. So much twisting and bad faith interpretations. These issues touch on everyone's lives- my main point is the destruction of language actually, and I usually make a distinction between trans people and Gender ID ideologues/ideology.
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Replying to @telreth @arthur_affect and
"destruction of language"? So like, you're concerned about the world's vanishing languages? The fuck are you doing in this thread making dumb arguments about whether or not trans people existhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/07/vanishing-languages/ …
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Replying to @TheShyWoof @arthur_affect and
Oh no I mean specifically my own language- English. There is a slew of words having their meanings ripped away and their opposites affixed; Man, woman, lesbian etc.
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Replying to @telreth @arthur_affect and
Oh don't worry, English isn't going anywhere. It's spoken by over 1.5 billion people. It's not dying out any time soon. It is, however, going to continue to evolve, as all living languages do. And that's a good thing.
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Replying to @TheShyWoof @telreth and
The word "bad" derived from the Old English word "baeddel", a term for a "hermaphrodite", an "effeminate" or a "pederast" I.e. a slur for trans women based on the idea of trans women as perverts and predators
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It's just a fun fact, indicating that 1) language evolves, and 2) the evolution of language obscures how fucking ancient a lot of concepts are that we're being told are new
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and
The English aren't alone in it of course but it's certainly telling that their most general negative word originated as a way to express homophobia and transphobia The more things change
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TheShyWoof and
(As a sidenote it's also funny whenever the TERFs complain about the Orwellian reinvention of words like "lesbian", a word whose literal definition is "person who lives on the Greek island of Lesbos" and has only had its specific modern meaning since the mid-20th century)
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