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Trans teen drops out of dance competition after conservatives lead campaign against her - LGBTQ Nation
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Kinda like how you brought race into the conversation when no one was talking about it.
Weird how one might swap out one equal variable for another to see if the equation makes more or less sense to a person that has not followed logic into their current position.
$Immutable_Characteristic deserves an exclusionary safe space and $Immutable_Characteristic_Variant shouldn't have a say.
If you can fill in those variables with some equal thing and it turns into a bigoted statement, congrats, the original statement was bigoted as well. "Whites deserve an exclusionary safe space and Blacks shouldn't have a say." is equal to "Little people deserve an exclusionary safe space and average height people shouldn't have a say." is equal to "Straights deserve an exclusionary safe space and gays shouldn't have a say." is equal to "Women deserve an exclusionary safe space and men shouldn't have a say." is equal to... You get the point.
All are equally bigoted statements.
It's more than whataboutism, it's a completely different argument there. No, I don't particularly care about a transinclusionary 'safe space' hosted on an instance that doesn't understand intersectional inclusivity includes class. I do care about people outside instances like that advocating for segregation, especially trans exclusionary segregation like you explicitly advocated for.
I don't think they're okay, there's a difference between that and picking a fight with an instance owner that believes that should be so. If .world starts hosting zionism comms instead of just moderating anti-zionist sentiment, I'll just choose to block it like hilarious chaos and other such pointless right-wing instances.