• Flying Squid
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      307 months ago

      I assume you wouldn’t mind if someone went to all of your neighbors and told all of them you were a pedophile.

      Let people say what they want, right?

      • @theangryseal
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        -37 months ago

        Slander isn’t the same thing as being insulting. I couldn’t take you to court for calling me Stevie or telling everyone to call me Stevie.

        I think twitter is stupid. I think the policy is stupid. I don’t think bullying people on any platform just to bully should be tolerated. Still though, that’s a whole different idea there.

        • Flying Squid
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          127 months ago

          So when you say “let people say what they want,” you mean, “privately-owned companies should be forced to allow people to say whatever they want unless it’s slanderous.”

          • @theangryseal
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            57 months ago

            You’re talking to the wrong fella. I never said that.

            • Flying Squid
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              87 months ago

              Sorry, I thought you were the original person I was talking to.

              • @theangryseal
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                57 months ago

                That’s fine. I’ve done that more than once myself.

    • @[email protected]
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      -237 months ago

      Agreed. The hypocrites here are perfectly fine unjustifiably calling people they disagree with fascists, nazies, pedophiles etc. but then lose their shit when someone misgenders somebody. Some people are assholes - deal with it or block them.

      • Flying Squid
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        287 months ago

        Listen to yourself. You don’t even know the difference between plain old name calling and actual bigotry.

        “Nazi” or even “pedophile” is not the same as calling a trans woman a man for the same reason that it’s not the same as calling a gay man a f- or a black man a n-. When you insult someone for an innate quality about themselves that harms no one, you’re a bigot. It’s really that simple and it’s sad that you don’t understand that.

        • @ghostdoggtv
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          87 months ago

          The key qualification in the comment you’re busting is the word “unjustifiably.” It is pretty easy to justify calling people fascists or Nazis based on the subject’s own behavior. You can’t justify bigotry with anything but hatred.