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Steve QJ's avatar

"The current word and pronoun foolishness has the same, you must submit to me or else aspect"

I think what offends me most about the current foolishness is that it demands that I say or support thins that I believe are false and/or stupid. I really do try to be kind with my words, but nobody gets control of my tongue to that degree.

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Chris Fox's avatar

There was an article in Washington Post about some "nonbinary" fool who buys used copies of Rowling's books and takes them apart, rebinding them with her name removed.

O Brave New World.

It was unreadable. The writer dutifully referred to him as "they" and it was like text written by hitting word suggestions on a cell phone message app.

I am trying to imagine being so deranged to devote days, weeks, of one's life defacing books because the writer wrote something "hurtful" about "trans." I saw a side-by-side of what Rowling actually tweeted and the hate-posts she got for it. Her statements didn't budge the meter, they were scientifically accurate; the responses were murderous. If I were stuck in an elevator with one of those people responding to her, only one of us would get out.

Just savage, violently angry shit.

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Peaceful Dave's avatar

Oh my Zeus! That is deranged.

Dilbert cartoon satirist Scott Adams infamously remarked that facts don't matter. Sadly, in the 21st century, he seems to be correct.

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Chris Fox's avatar

That you (inadvertently?) use "believe" suggests that you're already infected.

You're talking about things we know to be false or stupid. For example to accept that gender impersonation is actually a transformation is at the level of creation myths or geocentrism.

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