Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • FoundTheVegan@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    How dare you be upset when you are insulted!

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    Really? Jokes about steam roller counts as violence? Those Looney Toon be a real scary show for ya? Wild they make it for kids.

    Shame on you. Feign your mock outrage and cry those crocodile tears, for the rest of us are laughing at the sad transparency.

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      In what world is driving a steamroller over someone not violent? How would you like it if someone made a meme about driving a steamroller over transgender people?

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            1 year ago

            Because it’s a very silly question, one that I’m not going to entertain because…

            Do you really think this person is out renting a steam roller? And trying to find the street address of that person now?!

            You are steching so hard to call this a violent threat when it could not be more silly. You’re not motivated by “preventing violence”, because the entire premise here is ridiculous at face value. You’re motivated by wanting to call trans people unstable.

            Go tell your friends, your boss, your family you stopped someone from getting killed by a steam roller by saying “tut tut, ur crazy” on the internet. You know damn well they are gonna laugh at you.

            • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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              1 year ago

              So I presume if someone posted a comment saying “I’d love to roll him over with a steamroller” under a post about a transgender person, you would not consider that a violent threat because they are not going to actually get a steamroller?

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                1 year ago

                Context is everything. You are deliberately conflating a ridiculous joke with a veiled threat. You know the difference, so why are you feigning ignorance?

                • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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                  1 year ago

                  I genuinely don’t understand why it’s supposedly a joke in one case and a threat in the other. Can you explain that?

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                    1 year ago

                    Because the picture of the “gayroller 2000” is very obvious satire from the known-satire comic The Oatmeal, originally posted to satirise conservatives’ baseless fears of “the gay agenda”. Seeing a pattern?

                    On the other hand, there a pattern of hostility, hatred, and violence from conservatives towards LGBT people. This pattern is both historical and contemporary, and currently it is absurdly common for LGBT people to be called “groomers” and be accused of being dangerous to children.

                    Gay people obviously do not want to run over straight people with a steamroller. On the other hand, the people posting wood chipper memes… Some of them would, and have, followed through.