That said, don’t pretend the side you’re referencing is “peaceful”. It is extremely militant. They explicitly seek out moderator and other positions of power to enforce their world views via censorship.
I’ve seen the discord groups where they openly discuss doing this. They pride themselves on silencing others who they deem have violated their orthodoxy.
There isn’t a fridge gaming community on the internet that is safe from you and it is incredibly frustrating. Resistance is inevitable.
Frankly, the LGTBQ community are fighting for survival. If the far right gets what they want, these people will not be able to live in safety. So maybe being militant is reasonable when their lives are being threatened.
Well, the “ends” have consequences. I find it funny that the side so hellbent on calling everyone else “fascist” is the first to employ the definition of fascism (merger of state and corporate power) to enforce censorship on others.
If you’re (other) and just want to be left alone then you better start vocally separating yourself from the mainstream “community” and their jackboot tactics now, because the backlash is coming (due to said tactics) and it’s going to overspray unless mitigated now.
I simply argued that trans-activists argue in bad faith and regularly blur the lines on the definition of transphobic.
Rather frustrating to be banned site-wide simply for citing a fact.
The left will tell you (and demand that you accept) that that's somehow a healthy human being.
And to the extent that we accept it, it is a demand to reject fertility as an indicator for human health.
By all means eat yourself into a sphere, neuter yourself with sex hormones, mutilate your genitals - live your best life, but understand that if we all behaved that way the species would go extinct.
And I do not owe it to anyone to pretend otherwise.
Just for clarity on this point: If you meant Brían Nguyen, it was 'a' Miss America pageant and not 'the' Miss America pageant. The title wasn't "Miss America", it was "Miss Greater Derry"
For example, shouting the words, "Fuck God" in the middle of church would be considered an assault on the congregation.
Calling a non-binary person a "Man" would be considered an assault on that person.
Many of us secularists and atheists would very much like to leave the shadow of religious organizations. We can't do so without openly confronting the reality of those religious organizations and their power over our lives.
For that confrontation, we use words.
It's all about extremists, it's even all about "religion", even from the ones who call themselves anti-religion.