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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
It’s not about having consistent viewpoints, it’s that your views consistently run counter to the people you claim to be close to and you consistently show less empathy for the people who stand to be hurt the most by the things you defend than the people doing the hurting.
So, I don’t know what I’m supposed to think of you. Have you ever once thought, considering you’ve come to the conclusion that nobody ever understands you and apparently nobody on CP can read, that there is a disconnect between how you believe you’re coming across and how you’re actually being received?
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You say my views run counter, but from my position my views are just more nuanced than yours. I very much believe that the internet has put nuance on life support. When there is a rage mob ready to strip a young man of his dreams (or worse) for something he did as a child and there is a voice advocating penance, internet culture treats that as opposition. Or if a voice is not in lockstep with popular opinion, they are cast into the pile of deplorables. The internet is in a hurry to have a problem and mobs are easily formed, they also change direction on a dime and frequently eat their own. None of this, in my view, is good or should be encouraged. I am clearly in the minority here, if this thread is any sample.
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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I don’t think it’s a big ask to say that we should be allowed to criticize the beliefs of someone when those beliefs are that it is wrong and invalid to be gay or trans, or that it’s just an activity or lifestyle and not how someone is? Reimer is a nobody in the grand scheme of things, but there are people with actual power who think just like him and believe those same things and make policy that reflect those beliefs and harm LGBTQ folks, kids especially. Is that above criticism to you? Or is it ok that we criticize beliefs like Reimer’s so long as we “tolerate” him, just as everyone has done since he made the statement?
And if it is ok, what exactly are you trying to accomplish by argument against something nobody is arguing for?
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You're allowed to criticize him all you want. And I'm allowed to criticize the rage culture that is wholly unhelpful to the "inclusive" mission.