Comment on What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?

• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So you allow them to influence other people with their ideas?

  It’s stuff like this why people in real life all share the same opinion on trans issues and other right wing issues. It’s this stuff that has allowed their arguments to spread. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of what you were supposed to be doing. You gave them a red carpet and helped contribute to the spread of their propaganda by disengaging. Changing their opinion was not ever said as a goal. You need to challenge their opinion to show it is badly formed. If it isn’t then you need to evaluate yours.

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  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Disengaging does not help spread propaganda. Engaging and giving horrible ideas a platform does help spread propaganda.

    Your “debate bro” advice is about ten years out of date.

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you allow them to influence other people with their ideas?

    No, absolutely not. I run instances to give gender diverse folk safe spaces. I ban transphobes the instant they appear, I don't debate them. Offline, I'm visible, active and proud. I am an volunteer at my local parkrun, I've spoken openly with people at my workplace, I've hosted a queer community radio show, I host a vodcast, and I used to be active in organising events for my local gender diverse community. Because what gets people to change their minds, is an emotional connection with the group they're targeting. When they start to see us as people, just the same as them, then they start to make choices that aren't harmful to us, and they start to wind back their own arguments.

    Pushing back is incredibly important, but debating them isn't effective. Like most people, when confronted with debate points in regards to a topic they hold on to for emotional reasons, they will shift goal posts, and only see the things that validate what they already believe, whilst ignoring the things that challenge it. When they get to the point where they're ready to challenge their ideas (because their emotional position has shifted) then, lots of the talking points you would normally debate become relevant, but by that stage, it's a discussion, not a debate.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    So you allow them to influence other people with their ideas?

    I’m prepared to trust other people’s intelligence to see through it, and if they can’t, fuck them as well.

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    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Part of being intelligent is being social. Being social means we mirror and sometimes go with the crowd. That’s just how it is. Which means if you think people are intelligent, it means it also should understand they will be susceptible to certain things like this

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  • BassTurd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Absolutely. If people like the idiot this post is referring to are allowed to spew bullshit without push back, then other idiots will believe it and spread it. These people need to be shamed and publicly corrected for their bullshit stance that can hurt others. I say hurt others, because an idea like this can be used to delegitimize transgender people.

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    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I remember a study once showing that you can skew the views of any group if only 10% of that group change their opinion.

      I think this is really important here because if you’re on an social media and you see nothing but right wing views, I think it does influence lots of people. This is why I get so mad seeing attitudes suggesting we should all just ignore it all like it’s a waste of time.

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