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"A transgender Mongolian in the desert"? Is this really so gravely offensive?
by woah 12y ago
"A transgender Mongolian in the desert"? Is this really so gravely offensive?
- exarch 12y agoIt is if you're an overly sensitive SJW twat. Otherwise, no. It isn't insulting to desert-dwelling transgendered Mongolians, just a humorous ad lib pulled from the speaker's memory based on something they happened to have read recently.
- rosser 12y agoYou'll pardon me if I reject any argument premised on a notion of someone being an "overly sensitive SJW twat". Comments like that say more about the person uttering them than their arguments.
- exarch 12y agoI won't pardon that, because it shows your bad priorities of style over substance. That kind of flawed reasoning has too many negative consequences for me to merely overlook. Sorry.
- woah 12y agoI asked a friend and she gave me this explanation: "It's not compassionate to remind transgender people that they're a minority that often has trouble "passing" and face extreme violence bc of that...if you were a trans woman in the audience who'd been beat up for not being able to pass as cis, how would it make you feel to have that treated like a joke" Seems reasonable. I retract my previous comment.
- Dylan16807 12y agoIt does seem reasonable, but does that mean it's not okay to joke about unfair bad things in general? What makes a similar argument valid/invalid?
- mfukar 12y agoHere is an interesting article: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-thing-to-say.html http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/01/not-a-very-pc-t... for those that wish to read a little bit more on the topic from an objective point of view.