Re:Fired Google engineer says company is trying to smear him
by totalZero on Thursday August 10, 2017 @10:51AM
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Moreover....
Calling anyone "cis" also immediately demonstrates one's own bias towards a particular philosophical framework regarding the difference between trans-identifying people and people who are not trans-identifying.
It's the same as how referring to individuals as "saved" and "not saved" intimates that one has a religious philosophy.
Every philosophy makes certain assumptions about the world, and some of those assumptions are weaknesses rather than useful heuristics.
Calling anyone "cis" also immediately demonstrates one's own bias towards a particular philosophical framework regarding the difference between trans-identifying people and people who are not trans-identifying.
It's the same as how referring to individuals as "saved" and "not saved" intimates that one has a religious philosophy.
Every philosophy makes certain assumptions about the world, and some of those assumptions are weaknesses rather than useful heuristics.