Comment on how to get unbanned from communities?
DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I pointed out that constantly posting about ‘trans rights’ was just a way sow division with a topic that directly impacts a very small portion of the population, but gaslights a large portion of the remainder. Got banned.
Wanting rights for a minority is gaslighting and sowing division?
Please, I’m very excited to hear your explanation of how, without being a transphobic piece of shit. Please, go on.
I mean if you don’t mean anything bad you won’t get banned, right? ;)
When you define anything that involves trans people and something you don’t agree with as transphobic then you’re not going to be able to take three steps out of your door in the morning without encountering something transphobic.
Everyone deserves basic human rights and the dignity that comes with them. And someone can feel like they are whatever they think they are, absolutely fine. And others may fundamentally disagree with what you think, which is also completely fine.
The fact of the matter is that the majority of the people in the world, don’t give a shit what bathroom someone uses, or what an adult decides to believe or do with their own body. They never did. So by putting such focus on an issue that impacts hardly anyone directly, one which many people fundamentally disagree with, you’re just making more division.
everyone in the country had their civil rights suspended, so try and think a bit larger than just one microcosm.
I don’t define anything like that. What you criticized was people defending trans rights, which definitely is transphobic. Don’t try to sugarcoat and blur what you initially said.
And if no one gives a shit and the rights are deserved, how do you justify being annoyed with it? If I see people fighting for the right to eat cold fries I’d say “sure, go ahead”, I wouldn’t start opposing them and saying that they’re sowing division. The difference of course being that trans rights are a serious matter.
You’re just trying to suggest, intentionally or not, that defending trans people is negative for society, and if that is not transphobic I don’t know what is.
I never actually criticized people for supporting trans rights. I just pointed out that the topic can be divisive in American culture, and that is someone wanted to sow division, an easy way to do it would be to talk too much about that one very narrow topic, when we should be focusing on broader cooperative efforts at the moment. It doesn’t mean trans people deserve any more or less than anyone else.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Supporting human rights isn’t in any way “gaslighting”. It’s very reasonable to ban someone for being a piece of shit.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You must be an active mod on one of the tankie instances with that kind of thinking.
Everyone is a piece of shit in their own respect. It’s our jobs to find common ground in spite of that
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
There is no middle ground between binary options. You have rights or you don’t. You hate or you don’t. “Just a little bigotry” it’s still bigotry. If I say 1+1=2 but you say it’s 3 that does not make the right answer 2.5.
Your worldview is literally the middle ground fallacy.
DrFistington@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wait, so are you now arguing that only binary options exist?