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> Yes or no? This is a very simple binary question It’s triggering to a lot of people to use the term ‘binary’ in that manner. You need to check your Hetero-pr

> Yes or no? This is a very simple binary question It’s triggering to a lot of people to use the term ‘binary’ in that manner. You need to check your Hetero-privilege. It’s hateful and hurtful to non-binary posters.

olliej 4y ago
See, this is the kind of anti-LGBTQ stuff that is not censored on Twitter today. You have used the common trope of the pretty much fictional extreme - there are definitely people who abuse terms like “triggered”, etc for stuff that by clinical definition isn’t - but what you’re attempting to do is take a large group of real humans, and reduce them to a caricature so that you can then treat them as non-people. This is a standard step, taken by many groups, many times, targeting many groups to justify discrimination, persecution, and worse. This kind of trivialization and dehumanization was and is used by people justifying sexism, slavery, apartheid, segregation, homophobia, transphobia, anti-semitism, anti-Palestinian, anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, manifest destiny, by the japanese vs Chinese or POWs, Koreans vs Philippines, British vs Italian immigrants, etc, etc Persecuting people is not something that seems specific to any single group, history is replete with one group trivializing another. I would just like you to recognize that your reflexive response to my calling out what censorship is being targeted, and that it is not a “free speech for everyone” action as is being claimed, was to immediately attempt to trivialize the identity of another group of humans. It’s not materially different from people in the south creating uppity black stereotypes, crooked nose Jews around every corner, the gay people preying on innocent straight people. You could be totally fine with that, the problem people seem to have is more often being called out on it, than actually doing it. I’ve encountered plenty of liberals that will happily do or say racist or phobic things (phobia is super common in the “liberal” democrats), but get upset if you call them out on it. It’s the same thing with “dog whistles”: people treat saying certain specific words as bad, but instead of stopping the statements they simply change the words used. So a variety of words and phrases became “urban youth”, “Jews” became “globalists”, etc To me it seems a lot of the “anti-censorship” complaints are more people being upset that they’re behavior is getting called out.

olliej 4y ago

See, this is the kind of anti-LGBTQ stuff that is not censored on Twitter today. You have used the common trope of the pretty much fictional extreme - there are definitely people who abuse terms like “triggered”, etc for stuff that by clinical definition isn’t - but what you’re attempting to do is take a large group of real humans, and reduce them to a caricature so that you can then treat them as non-people. This is a standard step, taken by many groups, many times, targeting many groups to justify discrimination, persecution, and worse. This kind of trivialization and dehumanization was and is used by people justifying sexism, slavery, apartheid, segregation, homophobia, transphobia, anti-semitism, anti-Palestinian, anti-Catholicism, anti-Protestantism, manifest destiny, by the japanese vs Chinese or POWs, Koreans vs Philippines, British vs Italian immigrants, etc, etc Persecuting people is not something that seems specific to any single group, history is replete with one group trivializing another. I would just like you to recognize that your reflexive response to my calling out what censorship is being targeted, and that it is not a “free speech for everyone” action as is being claimed, was to immediately attempt to trivialize the identity of another group of humans. It’s not materially different from people in the south creating uppity black stereotypes, crooked nose Jews around every corner, the gay people preying on innocent straight people. You could be totally fine with that, the problem people seem to have is more often being called out on it, than actually doing it. I’ve encountered plenty of liberals that will happily do or say racist or phobic things (phobia is super common in the “liberal” democrats), but get upset if you call them out on it. It’s the same thing with “dog whistles”: people treat saying certain specific words as bad, but instead of stopping the statements they simply change the words used. So a variety of words and phrases became “urban youth”, “Jews” became “globalists”, etc To me it seems a lot of the “anti-censorship” complaints are more people being upset that they’re behavior is getting called out.