Fair warning
This is a safe space. I have house rules. No, you do not get a say about it. Stick with it or LEAVE.
Because it obviously, sadly, needs to be said (this post has an acute trigger, as one might guess) : This is a safe space.
I repeat:
This is a safe space.
I have a zero tolerance policy for anything stepping past the boundaries of actual “tolerance” aka basic human rights for everyone.
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No, your “right to your own opinion” is NOT the same as being allowed to spew it wherever you want, in private spaces, too. That’s where house rules apply, for better or worse, you know? BTW, racism, sexism, fascism etc. are NOT “an opinion” at all. They are actively harming people and that is far from an “opinion”. Least of all when you are calling out for actively harming people.
Even in our “wonderful” times of hypercapitalism, “post”imperialism and -patriarchy (that isn’t really post at all, just different labels, imho), I have every right to block you out of my sight in my own private space and I WILL do so.
I will also ban you from my pub, if you bring it here.
Yeah, bohoo. You can go cry at your fellow bigots’ shoulders about me, but you won’t get no pity from me and no apology either.
Want the “good old times” back? Spoiler: It was not a thing to say in clubs or private gatherings in that good old time at all to be “allowed” to say that. We had policital correctness way back when, remember?
Unless you mean the times of Nazis or slavery or whatever horrible stuff you are thinking of. Well, those are not my “good old times”. And anyway, “we’re past that”, remember? Maybe you should act like it then… I certainly will. No debate.
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Because tolerance, in general, to remain such, has clear limits (as pertains to anything violating its basic premise).
D‘uh.
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In other words:
Violation of basic human rights or intent to do so is not a trivial offense (imho). If you do so, you forfeit your own, least of all the right to any kind of politeness.
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AKA: If I find you spewing -isms and violently stupid hate at minorities leading the victim charts (not the perp ones) on my page, I‘ll kick you.
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If you do it on my posts elsewhere I may react once—for everyone else so stuff like that doesn’t get to sit there unopposed—but will most definitely block you.
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There’s no need for me to (no rule that says I must—and if there were I would violate that nonsense rule happily) spend my precious time and resources (mental, emotional, or otherwise) on people who think it‘s the right way to go to e.g. demand random genitalia checks from strangers as if you had a right to those, and as if that made public toilets any safer for Flinta*.
BTW: Trans* are part of the Flinta* group.
And intersex and non-binaries have been known since the ancien Greeks and further back (they were once called “hermaphrodites”, and peoples around the world have know the third gender under many different names for ages, without labeling them “sick” for being BORN that way, or, if you are religious “made by GOD as they are”—and that includes their mind, perception, and personal needs which might vary from yours (no rape or hurting children is not a “need”—astounding how people think they can lug that into the same category—THAT is what is truly “crazy”)).
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Grow up, get educated, or shut your trap. You know full well what you’re doing or are unbelievably stupid; I don’t really care. You need to stop. It’s as simple as that.
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And no, even if you should‘ve met the one bad egg in thousands (which I doubt, since statistically most people spewing such bull* have never actually known a single person from whichever group they spew hatred against, statistically most often born from sheer xenophobia), that proves nothing that could ever be extrapolated to a whole population.
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One personal experience does not a statistic make.
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(Yes, I’m wholeheartedly saying this as a rape victim, because it‘s true.
Yes, one of my abusers was even a woman. (*)
So what? Cis-hetero males of the same country still lead the statistics of absolutely any country who has statistics as of this hour and day.)
Those statistics are rather clear about who the actual perps are and where which crimes actually happen by whom.
Guess what? I’ll repeat: In the overwhelming amount of cases it is cis-hetero males in your closest vicinity. Born and bred in your own country.
NOT anyone else.
[ (*) = Among a lot of men proving the general statistics once more, in the personal, too. But if it were different it wouldn’ve prove the statistics wrong. Just make my case(s) an exception. ]
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The cis-hetero men you are actually thinking of don‘t need to change anything about themselves, their passport (*) or their presentation for such invasions.
They just do it.
After all, most don‘t even get convicted for rape.
[ (*) btw, passports are never asked before you gain the right to access public toilets, at least not where I live… whatever gender is stamped on a passport (ours don’t even HOLD that information!) will not help or save you—they also won’t hurt you. perps will. not a gender or their clothes. and one is not quite a clue for the other unless we’re talking about cis-hetero males (and usually from your closest surroundings, not strangers) and that’s simply the overwhelming statistics conundrum. ]
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You have the entirely wrong people in your sightlines and I won’t stand for that.
No, not even if you cite she-who-shall-no-longer-be-named on it. That does not make it “true” or “right”. It’s still just bullshit, no matter that a famous name is backing the fake info and hate campaign.
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Should not have to say this but will say it anyway:
Same goes for anyone insulting people for their skin, eyes, nose, hair, health status, supposed country of origin, where their parents came from, or whatever other random divide-and-conquer bullshit you fell for, too.
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Of course it does. What did you think?
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Kindly fuck off or get kicked off.
(Yes, I‘d be absolutely happy to lose followers or subs about this, because they‘d obviously not be actual “friends of mine”. Go figure. If this should be you: Bye.)