# Linking to hate speech, again **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 26, 2025, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-again/1013441 "2025-01-26T19:24:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 22
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2025, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-again/1013441/22 "2025-01-27T01:40:37Z")
> [@Der\_Trihs](#): > > This is a lot closer to some atheist telling a a religious person that they are lying and _don’t_ actually believe in a god, and in fact that _nobody_ believes in any gods. Which I’m pretty sure _would_ get modded for being hateful. > > Also, the gender essentialists believe strongly in an “immutable gender identity”; they just think that _they_ are the ones who get to assign it and the person in question doesn’t get an opinion on the matter. 1. Disbelievers in gender identity are _not_ saying people are all lying about their feelings. We’re saying feelings are not the thing that determines whether a person is a man or a woman. 2. In [this thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-anybody-really-know-what-believers-believe-deep-down/797676/36) @Bill_Door implies that hardly any religious people really honestly believe in a god and @kanicbird opines that actually everybody really believes in a god but just don’t know it. Neither gets mod noted, and nobody does anything more strong than disagree. So I dispute your assertion that “nobody believes in any gods” would be mod noted on this board 3. Can’t say I care what “gender essentialists” think since I’m not one, and it’s not necessary to be one in order to think that gender identity is not a meaningful category --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/linking-to-hate-speech-again/1013441)._