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  • stankmut@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.caDoes anyone know what this flag means?
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    18 days ago

    That depends on what you mean by not hurting anyone with that belief. You can believe in whatever you want if it honestly doesn’t hurt anyone else, but that’s not usually how it goes. Just leaving a comment saying you dislike trans people is hurtful. Imagine scrolling through a comment section and seeing random comments where people say they hate that you exist.

    How can you reconcile believing they have the right to exist with not liking that they exist? How is that functionally any different?

    Isn’t it even more “equal” to accept people’s right to have opinions you don’t like?

    See the Paradox of Tolerance.



  • Yeah that’s my point. It seems like the person is saying that it’s crazy to believe that the #savethechildren bumper sticker is anti-trans. It’s a really common right-wing ‘trick’. You make up a phrase implying gay or trans people are after kids and then go “it doesn’t say anything about that on the sticker, I guess that says something about trans people if that’s where your mind went” when called out on it.