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[–]odius 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm not saying we should go around calling transgender people slurs. But if you think being polite is going to endear our ideas to them, then you don't know how the transgender community works. To them, any amount of criticism= bigotry. Saying things they don't want to hear is bigotry. /r/gendercritical banned slurs. Did that stop the admins from banning it?

[–]adabsurdum 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

you seem to be confused about who our target is. it is not the transgender community we are attempting to endear our ideas to. going around using language like this is not only a lazy, edgy masculine way of attempting to make an argument but it legitimatizes their claims against us to the observers. this is very, very basic strategy and seeing people acting this way and others defending this poor line of thinking and emotional reactivity is so disheartening.