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[–]The_Mad_Pirate 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I don't know what that article has in larger amounts, faulty rationalizations or logical fallacies.

For example :

Let’s be honest with ourselves - what leads us to build walls is fear. Prejudices lead us to fear other races - not too long ago, White people kept Black people from using the same bathroom. Keeping others out makes us feel safer. However, another way to feel safe, without being exclusionary, is to challenge our prejudices. Today, we would find it offensive and preposterous if a women’s bathroom excluded Black women, or handicapped women.

Let's see. We have false equivalence ( as in transphobia = racism ), then we have strawman ( attacking the racial discrimination argument instead of addressing sexual predators inside trans communities ) and finally we have appeal to emotion ( "I am right and you are wrong because I have to 'feel' safe" ). Lastly is the rationalization that just because one type of discrimination is unjustified, all forms of discrimination must also be ( funny enough is the same type of rationalization that pedophiles use ).

And that's just one paragraph, the entire article is rife with those.