JamesGray

I don’t even use third party apps, but it’s fundamentally bad for the internet for big websites to do shit like this to try to lock off their APIs to only paid users even though it’s a free website populated entirely by user generated content.

You’re gonna need to be a bit more specific than that, because “defends” often does a lot of heavy lifting when it comes to issues like that being discussed from a leftist perspective. Did they outright say North Korea is perfect or there was no human rights issues with the treatment of the Uighur people in China? Or did they say the situation in Korea is more complicated than is presented by the west because we’ve embargoed them for more than half a century at this point and point out how the Uighur genocides are not that different from what happens in ICE camps in the US to this day?

Bad things happen all over the world, and I don’t think China or DPRK are perfect by any measure of the word, but presenting them as the axis of evil and ourselves as the good guys is just silly. It’s not that they’re good, it’s that we’re cartoonishly evil too.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Trans people exist, so “eradicating” transgenderism only really has a couple options:

1. detransition all trans people and do not allow any other trans people to transition, socially or medically

2. kill all trans people

Maybe if you’re really stretching the definition of “eradicate” you could add an additional option:

1. remove all trans people from public life, do not allow the discussion of transgenderism or the presence of trans people in public spaces

It’s actually even stupider than they’re presenting it to be. The speech that was being “compelled” was explicitly not intentionally and repeatedly misgendering someone after being informed of their identified gender while working in a publicly funded position. I.e. when someone is acting as an agent of the government of Canada, they’re not allowed to intentionally misgender people.

They can literally quit their jobs if they don’t want to do that, our speech is constantly compelled in similar ways in the workplace but they never care about that, because that’s how jobs work. I may want to tell customers to go fuck themselves if they’re rude, but I’m compelled to smile and nod and keep that for the break room afterwards if I want to keep my job.

No, it’s not an important distinction. If you remove the ability of trans people to transition to their identified gender then you’re relegating many of them to suicide.

Michael Knowles called for the “eradication” of transgenderism at CPAC this year. Please shut up (E: corrected the wording he used, because he said “eradication” not just that it shouldn’t exist)

Nonetheless, here’s a viewpoint I have that I know is not accepted, but I’ll share it anyway. I believe the compulsion of speech, particularly insisting that all of society adapt their language to accommodate individual identities, is a terrible approach. The notion of forced speech is problematic to me, and worries me greatly.

Is this the fucking Jordan Peterson position? Whose speech has been compelled? A man walked into a Philosophy of Gender class this week in Canada and stabbed three people, so sorry if I’m a lot more concerned with the constant hate speech being levied against LGBTQ+ people than I am with the anomalous concept of “compelled speech” which has not as of yet been an issue and only exists in the fever dream of transphobes who want to actively misgender people while working in public positions in Canada.

What’s the moderate position between “trans people should not be allowed to exist in society” and “trans rights are human rights”? You have to understand every time you or anyone else says some shit like this you’re basically crying that people are taking a position instead of just watching the right wing try to ruin peoples lives.

The supreme court literally ruled to allow businesses to discriminate against people based on sexuality yesterday.