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Originally Posted by rubecube
This is just textbook whataboutism. Do you actually have anything to contribute to this discussion?
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I actually don't have anything to contribute, and was only reading the thread in hopes of gaining some perspective. Some good-faith posters have asked some reasonable, seemingly genuine questions about what they specifically could do, or what more broadly could be done, and the responses amounted to "All of it. Everywhere".
I mean, I don't think Cliff's question was in bad faith; what laws or policies need to be changed? If no one can point to any laws or policies that need to change and it just boils down to bigots being ####ers, short of waiting for the old ####s to die off, how does that change? To be fair, your reply to him was engaging but a little vague - how exactly do "areas such as health care and housing often underserve(sic) the queer (especially trans) community", and what changes could be made to address that?
And you're right, it was a whataboutism. I didn't mean to take anything away from any of the posters here, but you have to appreciate it's a little difficult to swallow that in some cases, the "lived experience" anecdotes seem to have to be taken at face value, yet in other instances, ridiculed as disingenuous, or fear-mongering. To be clear, I think anyone with a different lived experience deserves to have their opinion considered valid, especially when it comes to things like feelings of personal safety.