• barsquid@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It doesn’t, Texas is probably better for taxes. He’s just being a bigot to “own the libs” or whatever the real reason is.

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      Like most extremely outspoken people with a phobia like this. He’s probably a closet wannabe trans.

      Actually, the more I think about it, it kinda fits for him/her …

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        You know… that does kind of track. Back in the 2010’s when the hot topic was gay rights, some of the most zealot anti-gay right wingers… were found to dabble in the very least. And this is some loud stuff that has no direct connection to him, so… yeah.

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        Even if he is closeted, you should still respect his pronouns. It’s still bigotry when you do it, just like when any transphobe does it.

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          I agree that we should use people’s preferred pronouns. I know it’s difficult to use neopronouns but it’s so seldom an issue let’s just get on with life.

          Elon has protested being identified as a cisgender male, and declared that ‘prosecute/Fauci’ should be used.

          Prosecute has also mentioned that prosecute doesn’t really like people making a big deal about pronouns so let’s just move on.

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            5 months ago

            Let’s move on so you dont have to examine your behavior here or how it may harm the community you are supposedly standing up for

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              Honestly I’d be happy to examine my behavior, because my support for the trans community is real. I don’t think I’m on trial but if you want me to provide evidence I can.

              I don’t agree with the strategy of the previous poster which was to intentionally mislabel Elon. But I think it is appropriate to ironically adopt someone’s insincerely adopted pronouns. That said, I’d be happy to read an explanation of why this is a bad strategy.

              Cheers.

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                In general, I don’t think it’s “not transphobic” to use transphobic rhetoric. So that includes using fake pronouns including neopronouns and/or misgendering people.