That's what that noise was.

And I'm not in the USA. The issue is that people will much more readily recognize racism as hate speech but gloss over transphobia as "just having an opinion." That's my whole point.

Plus, one awfulness shouldn't somehow justify another awfulness. It should disgust us just as much that people are racist as they are transphobic as they are homophobic and acephobic and the lost goes on.

Hate sucks. It's not a contest.

They specifically said that trans people shouldn't use it as a comparison, implying trans people don't experience hate while racialized people do. We are definitely interpreting this differently.

The person I screenshotted who blocked me decided that I must think people are never targets of hate for race - quite the opposite, my point was that we are quick and ready to recognize racist hate speech as hate speech, but slow to recognize SOGI hate as hate speech. Hence the comparison.

This was about a pair of twenty-somethings saying that asexual people shouldn't exist and that trans people done deserve to call themselves trans. I said "imagine if you replace asexual or trans with a religion or a race."

For the record.

Jesus fucking race to the bottom Christ fuck off you transphobic piece of shit

If they were teens I would have been more "here's how you can be better" but these were young adults. In a university town. They know better.

Looked 19-21 range, first or second year university, based on language patterns and physical appearance.

You've risen to a whole new hight, man.

I apologize profusely.

Absolutely! But there is a big difference between a misstep and open disdain for what you don't understand. And they were exhibiting the latter.

No, their perspective was that trans women/trans men need to stop calling themselves trans and just be women or men. And this also wasn't about the media perpetuating the "differentness," they were griping that trans folk demand too much special treatment.

I can name all three of them: Snap, Crackle, and Pop.

I think I put more effort into that than Metro North put into that livery

Name the 18 states from memory. I bet you can't.

What's wrong with the flag? It accurately portrays the 7 colonies and the 18 states.

Which are the 18 states that you are honouring veterans from? I'm a bit confused. Did a bunch secede and join Canada or something?

A HUNDRED DOLLARS?