Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem

• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Of course not…

  latimes.com/…/lgbtq-trans-people-american-support…

  I think you might be confusing our political system for a democratic one…

  A minority of the populace voted for what’s happening these days. The majority of people just don’t give a shit, they’re fine with people living how they want.

  It’s an important distinction, because the bigots always want the targeted minority to view all of the majority as an enemy.

  If battle lines are just “bigots” vs “non bigots” then the bigots lose every fucking time. That’s why they always try to make it “majority” vs “minority”, dont let them do that. And definitely don’t help them do that with posts like OPs and comments like yours

  Don’t get outsmarted by stupid fucking bigots. A lot depends on it now.

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  • TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You seem to be mistaking “majority” and “common”.

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OP literally said “everyone”…

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      • yucandu@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You guys ever get the impression nearly everyone on internet message boards is autistic?

        And I don’t mean that in a mean way, I mean that literally.

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      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You don’t need “everybody” to be transphobic for transphobia to be a big problem.

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  • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thirty-one percent of U.S. adults disapprove of transgender and nonbinary adults living their lives as they wish

    That sure doesn’t sound like a niche thing

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    • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So…

      You think 31% is “everyone” like OP said?

      Because if you disagree with both of us, it makes no fucking sense to criticize the person who was off by 59%…

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      • lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        “Everyone” had nothing to do with my reply. You were saying that transphobia was not common. I quoted the relevant statistic from the survey you linked that implied otherwise.

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      • FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I didn’t say everyone had a problem with transgender people, I said everyone was fine with celebrities making up fake names

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  • Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    news.gallup.com/…/slim-majority-adults-say-changi…

    Accepting that people can live as they wish is not the same thing as transphobia not being a common view.

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