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[–]artetolife 32 insightful - 1 fun32 insightful - 0 fun33 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

They are so convinced that their violent language is justified that they get a shock when they wander into the realm of normal people and get told that it's not acceptable. I say let them carry on like that, it will only 'peak' more people.

[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 26 insightful - 1 fun26 insightful - 0 fun27 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

This is true. Recently, I watched a TRA trying to say violence (physically or verbal) is justified if it's "for a good cause" (such as fighting transphobia bla bla) and it was REALLY pleasing to see EVERYONE disagreeing and saying that's the worst possible route and that violence is never the answer and that if they act like that people will disagree even more with them etc etc hehe

[–]artetolife 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In my country at least, there is a history of violent resistance against fascists, which I support - but what they miss is that this is against REAL fascists, people literally calling for the extermination of whole groups of people. Not JK Rowling speaking up for women's rights.

[–]oofreesouloo⚡super lesbian⚡ 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes. Fortunately, sane people with common sense are able to tell the difference between JK Rowling (aka people that may have different opinions than yours) and real fascists. Only TRAs and totally toxic unstable individuals scream "suck my girldick" and want to kill and punch everyone who simply disagrees with them.

[–]MezozoicGayoldschool gay 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

people literally calling for the extermination of whole groups of people

Groups of people like lesbians (or women)? Hm, it reminds me something nowadays. Not sure what. Hmmmmmmm.

[–]8bitgay 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I say let them carry on and keep track. Because they love to act like nobody says that.

Also, keep track especially of the big names. In the end of the day the person in this tweet is just some random user with 4 likes. However I've seen profiles with thousands of followers and thousands of shares saying the same stuff.

[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yup, totally agree.

edit: We should get like a repository going for the big-name ones.

[–]8bitgay 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

At times like this I wish I kept some of the most absurd examples, written by people with thousands of followers. I barely use Twitter, but in the past I just blocked some of the people who say this homophobic stuff. Maybe I should have saved a few of the tweets before blocking. They weren't in English but I think it'd be nice to add examples in other languages too.

[–]BrokenEarth 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

For them speech is violence and violence is speech. You using the wrong gender is denying their existence, them bashing you is making a statement.

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

It is their tactics for many years now. They are saying that "when we are not agressive, no one is listening to us, so we need to threaten people, for them to do what we demand". Few of them even linked me this article: https://archive.is/Ichkj (for some reason archived version is not full, here full but it is on medium) as one of reasons and justifications why they are so agressive. They still never explained to me why other people then must not be agressive too to them, if those people demanding something as well.