Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • Veraxus@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Context is everything. You are deliberately conflating a ridiculous joke with a veiled threat. You know the difference, so why are you feigning ignorance?

    • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      I genuinely don’t understand why it’s supposedly a joke in one case and a threat in the other. Can you explain that?

      • darq@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        Because the picture of the “gayroller 2000” is very obvious satire from the known-satire comic The Oatmeal, originally posted to satirise conservatives’ baseless fears of “the gay agenda”. Seeing a pattern?

        On the other hand, there a pattern of hostility, hatred, and violence from conservatives towards LGBT people. This pattern is both historical and contemporary, and currently it is absurdly common for LGBT people to be called “groomers” and be accused of being dangerous to children.

        Gay people obviously do not want to run over straight people with a steamroller. On the other hand, the people posting wood chipper memes… Some of them would, and have, followed through.