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Originally Posted by Trexller
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When you call out everything as bigotry or racism, then nothing is bigotry or racism.
So you gotta pick and choose the fights, lest everything get lost to white noise. Also, it will be able easier to recognize bigotry against trans folks when you all get it together and decide whats cool and whats not. It varies by the day. In some communities the term "tranny" is somehow derogatory.
In the right connotation, I can make, "Valued alternative lifestyle Citizen" derogatory.
When people are perpetually offended, everyone else stops to care, because there is no help for the perpetually offended, they are quite happy being miserable.
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I could say a lot about this. The trans community probably won't have it together for a long time yet. A lot are in the woke-left activist crowd (which includes a lot of non-LGBT people too, but that's another discussion). Those types, yes, are always looking for the offense of the day.
But there are as many that you'll barely notice. The ones that just go on and live their lives in their identity as they are. I never saw the appeal of the woke crowd as it felt sort of cultish; a mirror of extreme-right evangelism. To some degree it's like the deaf acceptance debate, you have to adapt to fit into society.
But that doesn't mean a lot of people on here aren't disgusting either. It's kinda gross just how many posts are thinly veiled hate. Though more commonly it's not quite what I'd call hate but disgust. From a non-American perspective, this community is pretty backwards especially taking into account the age demographic.
Comes down to context not just a word or two. Misgendering by accident vs on purpose is a good example. Same word, very different intent. And you learn to read intent very well when you live it.