Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns

allywilson@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• WhaleScenery@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Never underestimate the will of bigots to obsess over other people’s genitalia.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope that comes through ❤️

    Clear as a bell. Anyone shitting on you is as tone-deaf as JK.

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  • qdJzXuisAndVQb2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Digs at people’s physical appearance are unwarranted here.

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  • n3m37h@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gender ≠ Sex which is why I refer to people as their sex and not a gender be cause there are over 100 fucking genders now and I am too stupid to learn anything other than Male and female

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    • TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You don’t have to learn them all, just use the ones the person asks you to. This is like saying “there’s like 100,000 names and I’m supposed to know them all? You’re just Jack or Jane to me.”

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      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Jessica? There’s no Jessica in the Bible dammit. You’re either Adam or Eve and I’m gonna say you look like an Eve.”

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      • Silverseren@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Also, almost no one uses any form of neopronouns. They just use the classic three of she/he/they. Or a combination of them.

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    • legion02@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “there are over 100 fucking names now and I’m too stupid to learn anything other than you”. No one is asking you to be psychic but instead to give their pronouns the same respect that they give your name. If you don’t know them it’s whatever but if you do and don’t use them on purpose you’re being intentionally disrespectful. Like if I know your name is Bob and call you Barbra on purpose that’s disrespectful.

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• K3zi4@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s just one of the culture war angles propagated by the rich to keep everyone angry with each other while they reap up as much of the world’s wealth as possible before any of the forthcoming disasters- whether that is climate crisis migration, the next financial crisis, AI unemployment crisis, further war, food and water shortages worldwide, etc…

  The writing is on the wall, a majority of people can see it too if you ask them, but unfortunately people can’t help but get sucked in anyway. Probably because it’s a distraction from facing the uncertain future we all have.

  OR, this is just a tinfoil hat getting the better of me. It feels like a logical conclusion, so maybe that’s the fallacy I’ve fallen for.

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  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No, you’re right. Between 2009 and 2011, both the left and the right had their popular class movements with Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party. The risk of both sides coming together to attack the rich was too dangerous. Shortly after that we had Obama and other business and political leaders talking about “systemic racial discrimination.” Boy has that divided us. An incredibly effective tool to convince us idiots that race has ANYTHING to do with our differences. Poor people have far more in common with each other than they do with the rich. The trans issue has been injected to stoke the fires more, and everyone has been quick to jump on board.

    You know what? If we’re too stupid to see through this obvious charade, maybe this is what we deserve.

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    • HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Holy fuck you are so dense. Bringing up the tea party as a way of class solidarity? You are either lying or ignorant.

      Please, learn about the shit you spew if you actually care, but I assume you don’t since here you are spewing nonsense.

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      • DaDaDrood@feddit.nl ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Not OP, but I don’t think they mean that the Tea Party was part of class solidarity, but more that it was a movement that was unorchestrated by the powers that be and could, if left unanswered, lead to threatening the status quo, aka super wealthy.

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      • Arrakis@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This is probably the most hilarious overreaction I’ve seen in a while.

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      • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t know what you mean by “class solidarity,” but it was born in the fires of the 2008/2009 bank bailouts in which millions of ordinary people were wiped out financially while the financial institutions were given trillions of dollars. There was a lot of anger at the perception of crony capitalism and elites. The movement itself was grassroots and clearly feared by the powerful. You might not like the goals of the movement, but their anger was palpable, and at one point, something like 10% of the country identified with the movement. There was no way the rich and powerful could let ordinary citizens form such a powerful voting bloc.

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• Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Even if they were only 1 in a billion. They still deserve to exist and live their lives how they like if it doesn’t negatively affect others.

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  • Someology@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They do, and they should get on with that, and start ignoring people who don’t agree with them, their lifestyle, or use of language. You cannot enforce your own ideas about your identity on anyone else, because they are also entitled to have their own ideas. All a person can do is just live. Celebrity opinions are not law, and should not be paid such attention as if they matter.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Better that than throwing off the shackles of the oppressor and rising up against the oligarch class.

  Those brown lads area after your crumbs! That man wants to be called “they”! Ooh look, Israel/Gaza, pick a side! Look at this jobless woman with her fancy flat screen television! Does eating Wotsits cure cancer? Distract yourselves with yourselves.

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  • Globulart@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can I interest you in everything, all of the time?

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    • ThePyroPython@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apathy’s a tragedy and boredom is a crime.

      Anything and everything, all of the time.

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    • HerbalGamer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      a little bit

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