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How is it not hate? You're specifically using a name that a person no longer wants to be used. Imagine a comparable situation, where some person got bullied their whole childhood for a name, almost leading them to commit suicide. The person legally gets their name changed to improve their quality of life, and changes their whole environment. If a new coworker now found out about the old name and started specifically calling them this name - how could you argue it's not hate speech?
This is not about some abstract strange expectations, it's literally: please don't refer to me in a way that hurts me. Is basic decency really something we have to argue about?
This is not about some abstract strange expectations, it's literally: please don't refer to me in a way that hurts me. Is basic decency really something we have to argue about?
No giving enough of a shit to remember is not equivalent to hate.
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Damn it.
I'd rather not bother, but I need to give this an actual response.
Because I am sick of walking on damned egg-shells just because reality hurts people's feelings and that makes acknowledging it an act of hate.
And it's not. It just fucking isn't. And it makes no difference if that hurts your feelings.
We live on a world where a cosmic blink ago, people were being gassed to death in Europe, Americans had their own race of slaves, yada yada back through cosmic horror upon cosmic horror.
Where to this day there are concentration camps are busily running in communist occupied China.
Bad shit has happened, really bad shit. It's still happening in other places and it could happen again right where you are.
To me, that's hate. To me, that's fascism. That is what needs to be stopped at all costs.
What you call hate, I call a quibble (there's gotta be a better word for what I mean, but I hope you get the point); the world's not going to end because someone called you a cunt, but fuck letting there be another Hitler.
So when people go on about hate speech for minor fucking shit like this, I get angry - because it seems to me that they care more about virtue signalling than they do about any actual bad thing that has ever happened or is happening or could ever happen again.
And that's all I think it is - virtue signalling.
Focus on the most marginal groups of people you can, the less of an impact you have on society, the more justice points you earn? And I need to treat them like they're the adults in the room?
That, by the way, is just perfect for the corporations: update your inclusivity policy and wave a rainbow flag, no fundamental change included - cheap as bloody chips.
On this little old planet that I'd prefer we stopped murdering, we just won't shut up about irrelevant bullshit.
Long rant short: no, it really does not sound like hate to me.
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Damn it.
I'd rather not bother, but I need to give this an actual response.
Because I am sick of walking on damned egg-shells just because reality hurts people's feelings and that makes acknowledging it an act of hate.
And it's not. It just fucking isn't. And it makes no difference if that hurts your feelings.
We live on a world where a cosmic blink ago, people were being gassed to death in Europe, Americans had their own race of slaves, yada yada back through cosmic horror upon cosmic horror.
Where to this day there are concentration camps are busily running in communist occupied China.
Bad shit has happened, really bad shit. It's still happening in other places and it could happen again right where you are.
To me, that's hate. To me, that's fascism. That is what needs to be stopped at all costs.
What you call hate, I call a quibble (there's gotta be a better word for what I mean, but I hope you get the point); the world's not going to end because someone called you a cunt, but fuck letting there be another Hitler.
So when people go on about hate speech for minor fucking shit like this, I get angry - because it seems to me that they care more about virtue signalling than they do about any actual bad thing that has ever happened or is happening or could ever happen again.
And that's all I think it is - virtue signalling.
Focus on the most marginal groups of people you can, the less of an impact you have on society, the more justice points you earn? And I need to treat them like they're the adults in the room?
That, by the way, is just perfect for the corporations: update your inclusivity policy and wave a rainbow flag, no fundamental change included - cheap as bloody chips.
On this little old planet that I'd prefer we stopped murdering, we just won't shut up about irrelevant bullshit.
Long rant short: no, it really does not sound like hate to me.
It's really depressing to see the world crumble like this. It's not just twitter, but look at what's happening in Florida.
Bigots gotta bigot. Politicians gotta pander to their base. Gays are just the flavour of the month. There’s always the Other that can be marginalized and then maltreated.
I get that it's unkind, but hate speech?
I feel for transsexual people, I do - they have very hard lives and have often been subjected to genuine and horrific violence (due to a hormonal disorder over which they have no control).
But maybe, it's not hate speech to say that trans activists (and the left in general) are weaponising the notion of hate speech, and that it's not actually hateful to acknowledge that they're better at sport than women, and that it's not hateful to refuse to conflate them with the people who have carried every generation of humanity into existence (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, or until we go extinct).