It's about a decision just made at Twitter by Elon Musk, so I'm not sure how much more on-topic it gets.
I know you can't back up your own shit, you tuck your tail and run every time you get called out on making wild accusations you have no capacity whatsoever to actually back up.
I love how Elon, who forces his tweets into peoples walls no matter if they want to see them or not, just spends his days replying to posts with "!" or "" to intentionally signal boost right wing conspiracy theories, disinformation, and bigotry.
I hope one of his rockets falls on him.
Even if we granted that "cissy" was a slur, he literally only mentioned "cis" and "cisgender" as being banned words on the platform. Kinda sucks for the guy whining about being called a "cissy" that daddy Musk didn't think it was devastating enough to make against the TOS.
I see our resident bigots got new fuel for their bigotry today.
Should bookmark tis thread.
When their kids ghost them in years. We can point to this moment.When their irony poisoned brain went full Elon Musk.
Sure Thankgiving is lonely now. But ... Elon Musk had a point.
/s
Government Affiliated Snark
https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/co...dia_cisgender/
rofl, snowflakes are editing wikipedia now over this shit now.
imagine simping over the worlds biggest billionaire loser in the hopes that he'll drop by your tweets with a "!"
I think what is hilarious is people are talking about Bluesky created by the creator of Twitter, somehow forgetting Jack and Elon are friends and he helped Elon Purchase twitter.
"Law and Order", lots of places have had that, Russia, North Korea, Saddam's Iraq.
Laws can be made to enforce order of cruelty and brutality.
Equality and Justice, that is how you have peace and a society that benefits all.
It's not that cisgender is an insult. It's that by using cis, you're semantically putting cisgenders and transgenders on the same level, they're two sides of a coin.
Transphobia doesn't want that. They want cis people to lack a name. They want to be the "normal", the default. That turns trans people into "the other", the weird.
Trying to modify public thought via limiting vocabulary is a totalitarian strategy from "Mr Free Speech for 8 bucks"
Couldn't have put it better myself.
Gotta love how all of the "free speech absolutists" always drop the mask as soon as they get an ounce of power. They cry victimhood and persecution when they're being banned for hate speech, and want "A free exchange of ideas free of moderation" and as soon as they feel insulted, they drop the mask and show their true colors, that they wanted to silence "other" people all along.
Even more funny that was just saw @Winter Blossom arguing a few days ago that the former twitter was too restrictive for banning actual violent hate speech, and that the current twitter with more open discourse is "better". But she suddenly agrees that people should be banned for saying "Cis" or "Cissy" to people? Wait, I thought you enjoyed the free speech absolutism discourse that was happening on Elon's twitter? What happened to wanting people to be able to speak freely?
Seems the mask dropped off.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
I didn't say you were a free speech absolutist, you just advocated for the "new" discourse style on twitter, and think people should only be banned for cases of extreme hate speech. You danced around describing EXACTLY what you thought people should be banned for, but it was pretty clear you thought people were being banned simply for saying racist and bigoted stuff and that you didn't agree with that.
So the question is, did you change your outlook on twitter's new political discourse, and believed a few days ago that it was good for people to be able to say what was on their mind, even if it's offensive - and NOW you think slurs should be bannable (well, cis at least, maybe not the others), or did you never hold the belief that discourse on twitter should be free and open and were just talking out your ass?
Because banning people for hate speech and excessive usage of bigotry and slurs to harass people was the old policy of twitter that you claimed to dislike. And it's what's happening now with Elon, but only for "cis" being a slur.
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Yeah, this whole trans panic mirrors the gay panic of 10-15 years ago.
"They're going after and indoctrinating children!"
"I'm not straight, I'm normal."
I'd be disappointed in any LGB person who didn't want the T, but we know the UK's "LGB" "gender critical" groups are all founded by neo nazis pretending to be bi.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"
Just gonna lean into the mic, not say this at anyone in particular but just shout it into the void because I wanna get it off my chest.
ahem
Cis is not a slur you fucking idiots, it's just another instance of bad faith fuckheads wresting language - in this case the word 'slur' - away from people they're oppressing to dilute its meaning. This isn't any different then when they started shitting out the word Groomer at every chance they got.
I remember telling someone if you found the more "normal" person, they would be abnormal for being how normal they are. The most normal thing a person can do is be somehow abnormal. It was actually freeing for me when I realized that everyone has some abnormality to them, I stopped caring if people saw me as "normal."
Peace is a lie. There is only passion. Through passion I gain strength. Through strength I gain power.
Through power I gain victory. Through victory my chains are broken. The Force shall set me free.
–The Sith Code
"In today’s America, conservatives who actually want to conserve are as rare as liberals who actually want to liberate. The once-significant language of an earlier era has had the meaning sucked right out of it, the better to serve as camouflage for a kleptocratic feeding frenzy in which both establishment parties participate with equal abandon" (Taking a break from the criminal, incompetent liars at the NSA, to bring you the above political observation, from The Archdruid Report.)
I rarely ever use Twitter for anything but reading the occasional important tweet or whatnot linked in an article or forum etc.
But today I made the mistake of opening the notifications section where there was someone linking to another tweet discussing the George Stinney execution.
Reading the comments on that ....the vile, violent, racist shit ... What the fuck. Twitter as a whole needs to be burned to the ground, this "thing" is utterly irredeemable.