The bird is dead!

That’s revolutionary!

To be perfectly honest I don’t feel like anything is fun anymore.

That’s exactly why polish national populists and christian democrats want to ban being trans and divorcing your spouse.

Truly remarkable. The galaxy brains behind it are truly enlightened.

Based France. I wish my countrymen reacted like that to any terrible thing the government does.

kolektiva.social, the name is cool and it allows 10 000 long posts. Also, it’s an anarchist instance and being an anarchist I kinda like that.

Should have used Arch instead hon hon.

Considering his politics I’m not sure, he’s more of a capitalist enabler.

I’d love to pet them with my tiny rat paws.

Thanks for proving my point!

So perhaps you should repent for actively hurting your fellow children of God. Because unless you’re not a hardcore old-school christian, freedom of choice on how to live ones life if it doesn’t hurt anybody is a God given right. And you actively want to take that away.

They don’t exist, because everytime someone mistakes hate speech for free speech it turns the community into a giant cesspool.

You are, because the guy we are talking about literally chose the appeasement rhetoric. And that’s pretty enlightement centrist-y.

Both sides are equally bad bullshit.

Words are a vessel of emotions and general narrative. And they can hurt, especially when targeted at a minority fighting for rights. Not only does it make the people in question less “valid”, it also affects them in making their fight for rights more difficult.

And about hate speech, no. Hate speech is hate speech. Always. For instance, you can deny climate change and even call it “religion” and that’s fine. It’s your opinion, it’s something you believe in. I can think it’s a dumb opinion and try to make you think otherwise, but ultimately, presecuting you for thinking that way and voicing your opinions is a violation of free speech. Because climate change, while it affects a lot of people, is not generally tied to people being one way or the other.

Transphobia, though, just like racism and antisemitism, are not interested in disagreeing with what trans people do or believe in. It has to do with disagreeing with their fundamental right to be and exist. Just like racism is not interested in criticizing what people of colour do. That’s where that “mental gymnastics” bullshit comes in, and it’s important. Thinking climate change is a hoax is an opinion. Thinking red onions are better than white ones is an opinion. Thinking it’s okay to provide platform for people spreading dehumanising rhetoric posing an actual existential threat to a marginalized group is not an opinion. It has to do what it targets. If your rhetoric targets people for no other reason than your bigotry, I’m sorry, but it’s hate speech. And it’s really different than freedom of speech and freedom of opinion. Of course, you could criticize certain aspects of what trans people actually do in a civil manner. It’s alright. But once you start to question the very way of them being trans it’s over with free speech.

Hope you get that now.

But you do not disagree with someone doing or believing something. By defending transphobia you disagree with someone being one thing or the other. Because transphobia isn’t based on disagreeing with what trans people are doing or believe in. It disagrees with their fundamental right to exist and wants to take it away. It’s no different from racism or antisemitism.

That’s the difference you seem to miss.

Oh boy, an enlightened centrist!

If you cannot differentiate between people actively stepping up to a literal anti-human propaganda from people posting it, perhaps you should fuck off, too.

Thing is, you are the one advocating for limiting the rights of someone that doesn’t actively harm you. YOU are the aggressor here.

Again. Wanting to actively hurt people you think are unworthy of living in peace is not freedom of speech. It’s hate speech. And it’s a whole different thing.

Wanting to actively attack people you don’t like is not a political view, though. It’s literal violence.
Hate speech doesn’t equal free speech!

It’s not censorship, it’s keeping people acting in bad faith from easily act in derogatory ways actively harming people.