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@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s You're seriously comparing the decision to not share porn with children with that of trying to get people fired from their jobs, defamed and turned into social outcasts for engaging in political dissent?

Really?

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s And, I might add, let's take a look at what qualifies as "politics," these days.

Denying that wearing a dress and wanting to be a girl will make a boy into a girl is now considered to be enough to make one a member of the far right, if not a Nazi.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s This position is taken on the very same site on which Jewish, Muslim and non-Caucasian users were routinely dogpiled, slurred and issued death threats by literal neo-Nazis a mere three years ago, with no meaningful support given to them by the community or the company.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s But telling a so-called "transwoman" that he really isn't female is such an outrage in the eyes of this same community, one that openly supported the "right" of bigots to harass genuinely marginalized people into leaving, that the dissenter on this point will be targeted.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s In fact, one doesn't even have to do that. Earlier this year, I referred to somebody who chose to go on using the name "Nora" as Ms. (inset her surname here). Almost immediately, "Nora" complained, saying that she wasn't a Ms.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s I was happy to oblige this crackpot just for the sake of peace, and so I called her Mr. (insert surname here). Let's add that it was a completely Anglo-Saxon sounding surname, so before somebody says "maybe Nora is a man's name in that person's culture," no, that wasn't it.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s But I was willing to oblige for the sake of peace. Didn't do me a d -- ned bit of good.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s I got dogpiled and dragged for days by the mob "Nora" assembled, as I got to discover how very little the rules on Twitter against targeted harassment mean when those breaking them happen to belong to a fashionable "victim" class.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s There were demands that I leave the site and attempts to trump up complaints to get me thrown off of it, coming from people who demanded that I give them my real name. Which I had the good sense to not do, in the middle of an attempted doxxing.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s All because Nora wanted to play cat and mouse games with yet another random stranger who came by. There is, in fact, an entire forum thread devoted to this person who, I understand has made a career out of creating this sort of drama.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s That's what the fight against this so-called "transphobia" is about. That's all that it's about. It has nothing to do with a fight on the part of some truly marginalized group to be left in peace and be allowed to live life on its own terms, at nobody else's expense.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s Something which, one might notice, many in the Twitter community have quite proudly and smugly refused to do for people of Middle Eastern, Indian and African descent in recent years, often without seeing any real pushback from anybody other than the victims and their friends.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s No, it's a feeble excuse to bully others. Much like neo-Naziism, in that regard.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s There is no level of compliance with this trollish lunacy that will satisfy the members of this "oppressed" group, which seems to consist primarily of upper class Anglo-Saxons who want to think of themselves as being the real victims in American society.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s The problem with that, of course, is that historically they've been anything but, and that when they started putting on those dresses, hardly anybody cared. So they re-defined the word "bigotry," so that they could qualify as "victims" and be at the top of the new pecking order.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s Much like they would have been at the top of the old pecking order, just with a different rationalization for their privilege, and for their habit of terrorizing those around them who weren't part of their circle.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s In "Nora's" case, we were looking at an Anglo-Saxon-surnamed biological female who is known to be dating a biological male, but still wants to be thought of as being "queer" and a victim of homophobia or some binary analog of the same.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s She / he / it / xe / whatever wanted to be a victim and was going to be, gosh darn it, and nobody was going to get in that attack helicopter's way. Years of drama dropped on unsuspecting innocent bystanders have followed, since.

@jimineedles @DgardsGaming @teacake90s In the end, a reasonable, decent person can't help be disgusted by a movement that pretends to be a liberation movement, but really is nothing more than an excuse for trolling, defamation and harassment.

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