When the post’s comments are nearly 10% of the likes, you know you’ve hit a nerve

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The proper response to transphobes is 1) “you shouldn’t say x”, and if they don’t, 2) “shut up, idiot”. There’s some subset who would be respectful but don’t know that certain things are disrespectful, that’s what #1 is for. The rest are just idiots trying to fit in with their fascist group dynamic. They’ll happily out themselves when you ask them to speak respectfully, so for them, it’s #2.

    If they try to have an argument, just respond to everything with “who cares? leave them alone.”

    • Hugucinogens@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      1 year ago

      There’s lots of polemic comments on the other post as well, but I did like this thing someone there said, about how the greatest impact can be made in real life, where the bigot in question, has a real person in front of him, making it much harder to dehumanise them.

      Online, there probably isn’t much to be done to change someone’s mind.

      When in person, if he is still an asshole, treat him like the asshole that he is.

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