People can be wrong about literally anything. That is not an excuse to say “fuck everyone else in this group.”
If you extend this argument, we shouldn’t believe what anyone tells us about absolutely anything because they might have made a mistake. Truly a great basis for human society.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 1 day ago
Why would you presume that questioning someone’s beliefs would mandate to treat them like shit? What a bizarre worldview. Everyone deserves to be treated with kindness and respect, whatever they believe.
But your beliefs about the world do not dictate my beliefs about the world. That is surely not a hard concept to grasp?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Because there’s an explicit bias in your questioning. You wouldn’t question if I’m really cis-hetero, but you would question of I’m reeeeeeeeally gay or trans, even thought I’m sure there are more people who come up publicly as gay after having children than there are trans detransitioning.
This is the same as the maga mentality, where any man in a position of responsibility is accepted by default, but for women they demand justification for the role.
definitely_AI@feddit.online 7 hours ago
Isn’t there an explicit bias in your statement?
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Well, that’s a way to go from having a bias to just plain bigotry.
superduperenigma@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Cis is a prefix, not an abbreviation. It is the opposite of trans. In this context it’s obviously referencing cisgender va transgender.
Cis means “this side,” trans means “the reverse side.” You see them used in chemistry, for example cis/trans-isomerism. Even Julius Caesar’s writings reference cisalpine Gaul and transalpine Gaul (the part of Gaul on this side of the Alps vs the part on the other side of the Alps)
Hope that helps you “keep up” with the English language.