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I've been avoiding comment on most of this thread because I really don't want to be seen as the instigator even more; however I wanted to comment on this specifically. Absolutely agreed with you on this point. I utterly hate the go with the flow, echo chamber style of discussions. I mean sure, if you're talking about how to make chocolate chip cookies, there's not really that many different ways to do it. Your recipe, will echo mine, for the same results. But in a lot of areas in life, there really are a lot of different takes. Your experiences and views and other nuances shape your ideas and expression on any given topic. They won't be the same as mine. And if they are, and all we talk about is 100% stuff I agree with; well, I ain't learning a damn thing am I? I'm just reinforcing my stance. Conclusion shopping. It is really important to have a different point of view that can be well explained and defended across the spectrum of what that may be.
There is no defense for treating people (human beings) as lessor than you because you disagree with their existence. Be it Nazi' Transpobia or otherwise. That's not a difference of opinion. That's a fundamental difference of what it means to be human. There is no echo chamber telling some wanna-be dictator POS' Nazi sympathizing fuck, to fuck off.
Beehaw wants zero of those people, echo chamber be damned.
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