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[-] davidagain@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I want you to think of a phrase about a minority group that you personally acknowledge is offensive.

If someone tries to say that the word “ethnicity”

I think if you break character and you're really honest with yourself and me, you may be able to come to terms with the possibility that maybe, just maybe, you don't sincerely believe that 'ethnicity' is a word that you, personally acknowledge is offensive.

It was a breathtakingly futile attempt to help you for once look at something from someone else's perspective. I don't know why I tried given how insulated from empathy for anyone else's feelings or perspective you have demonstrated you are over the last hours.

You make it really hard to care about anyone’s feelings if I have to walk on eggshells

Lol. You really think that the victims of transphobic talk are to blame.

The next time a trans man dies of ovarian cancer because his doctor was too afraid to have him screened for it (or worse: didn’t even know he has ovaries in the first place!), then at least I know it won’t be my fault.

Lol lol lol. You are parodying yourself now! You invented this timeline, this complete fiction, this flight of fancy in which someone was insisting that it's transphobic for a doctor to ask people about their medical history, (a context and an assertion that you, and only you invented) and then you blamed someone merely telling you that you were being impolite for the DEATH of your fictional character when they followed the imagined straw man advice that literally no one gave except you. And then you congratulated yourself that you had done your best to prevent the fictional death resulting from the implausible consequence of following advice that you yourself invented!

You have to give in and admit that the sheer audacity and absurdity of this far fetched straw man is actually funny!

this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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