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Originally Posted by icecube
Purposely misgendering a trans person is one of the biggest piece of #### moves someone can do. It's disrespectful and hurtful to their dignity as a human being. I see him as nothing more than an ignorant and spiteful dickhead.
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Is there a reason you generalize everything?
I responded earlier to your comment about all the abuse and suffering surrounding residential schools in regards to what we should do going forward and you didn't respond to that either.
Seems to me that your outlook here is a lot like your outlook there. Call attention to all the 'ignorant and spiteful dickheads' but not actually think beyond that in terms of actual solutions and the ways and means of moving forward. I don't think there is a single person in Canada who isn't ashamed and utterly disgusted at what happened with the residential schools. But, you can go through history and find MANY examples of people that suffered at the hand of their oppressors, often far WORSE than the poor students who were abused in those residential schools. Does that make it okay? No, absolutely not. But at some point simply calling attention to all the abuse and trying to legislate around it with apologies and legislative action like financial recompense isn't going to help anyone move forward. We need to find a way to help those people move forward without attaching labels and laws to everything.
And that is exactly why C-16 is in my mind a completely tragedy. Because our government and by extension the people of Canada are reducing a major problem of extreme suffering and hardship to a small worthless, non-involved legislative 'pass a law' solution. And like Peterson told our good Senate, that is not going to help at all.