Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Alright, I didn’t know this was a parody of an existing image. You could’ve said that the first time. But there was still the accompanying sentence…

    • WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I’ve never seen the image before, but the “threat of violence” was obviously a joke comment like the rallying call to “elect Biden so we can force feminize the cissy men.” In case you didn’t know, that’s also a joke. Its very different from threats to take a vehicle (whether a truck or a steamroller) to a pride event and use it on people, for example.

      If you can’t understand context or jokes, maybe don’t make inflammatory remarks about an entire group of people based on one person’s comment with confidence without at least asking first. Nothing wrong with taking things too literally, but weaponizing your lack of understanding isn’t the answer. Of course a lot of people do make veiled threats (in minecraft) when they actually are encouraging violence, so we should be careful about language and surely there’s cases in the middle where it could go either way, in which case calling out the language without insinuating it was intentional or representative of a larger group could be appropriate unless there’s a clear pattern…

    • darq@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Even without knowledge of the source of the image, there is no reasonable way a normal person interprets that message as a genuine threat of violence.