If I said "People dyeing their hair bright colors is a result of social contagion among schoolchildren" then I would be saying people with brightly colored hair "were a contagion", by any reasonable understanding of that language
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Which would be, in fact, a shitty thing to say But not nearly as consequential a thing to say as saying it about being trans, because hair color is much less central to identity than gender, and because there isn't already a deeply ingrained societal hatred of dyed hair
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
And a century's worth of western cultural and political narratives framing LGBTQ+ people as a societal illness or pestilence.
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @rozietoez and
What is the effective difference between saying trans people are contagion and people are becoming trans is a contagion? Both portray being trans as a sickness on society.
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Replying to @Neumie77 @BlamKaboom and
I know right Either way, it's saying that if you want to keep your kid from being trans, you'd better keep them away from other trans people It's not even arguing about a word, it's arguing about the *grammatical function* of the word
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Neumie77 and
"I'm not saying you ARE a contagion, I'm saying you are AFFECTED by a contagion that you then TRANSMIT to others" Shut the fuck up Seriously
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @arthur_affect and
You fleeing this conversation doesn't mean you're leaving. You created this account to target people. And that's what you'll keep on doing. Sockpuppets dispending worthless pysch advice are nonsensical.
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The actual, literal cops are going to be enforcing the new bans on trans healthcare and trans participation in sports passed on the back of arguments Jesse has pushed through the public sphere But sure, we're the ones ruining social media with all the policing
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