(December 23, 2022 at 12:37 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote:(December 23, 2022 at 12:29 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Mean, nasty people, giving kanye shit for wanting to be called something else. Will this injustice never cease!
Going by your logic, it's cool to deadname and misgender conservative trans women, because they're working against the cause by being conservative, so therefore we need not respect their identity? Ye deserves the respect to be allowed to shed his slave name and go by something else. Muhammad Ali said some pretty yikesy things about women in his time.
He can call himself Bongo Moretti, Empress Of The Isles for all of me, and I’d be happy to call him that. But it wouldn’t change what he is or how I feel about him.
‘A pile of rancid, racist, anti-Semitic horse shit by any other name would still stink badly enough to knock a buzzard off a gut wagon.’ - William Shakespeare
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson