Are you suggesting that there are fundamental differences between racism and transgenderism? Are you then further arguing that any analogy between the two is irrelevant to the point of absurdity?
Moreover, did you think that any interrogative from me denying acknowledgement of an analogy was intended to be taken literally?
Wow. I just can’t even…
Sigh. $20.00, same as in town. Put the gown on, lie on the bed, and someone will be with you shortly.
When the snark goes 360, sometimes it’s not even recognizable as snark. I still have no idea what your point was with the racist daughter story, nor do I understand your point now.
Well, I probably didn’t spend as much time researching racism as I might have, but I felt the scenario lacked the intellectual heft that would have justified spending any real time on it.
As it was, it took me almost fifteen minutes to type.
At least one term I only ever heard on, “All In The Family”, so your sourcing is accurate.
It’s a real thinker, I know.
Maybe we’re all just idiots, or maybe your point wasn’t as clear as you like – care to enlighten us?
It didn’t make sense to me, either. The little dialogue seemed to support Smapti, by justifying the parents’ authority to compel behavior changes in the child. Just as they can insist the child not practice racism, so Smapti supports the parents’ right to compel the child to “practice” behavior aligned with their physical sex.
When Grotonian ended his parable by claiming he disagreed with Smapti, many of us were left wondering why he constructed a parable that was so strongly supportive of Smapti’s viewpoint.
Except that they aren’t. You can just get away with calling people pissants. If you say something stupid here, you still said something stupid. And brother, that was some atomic-grade stupid. Pissant.
Because Smapti’s view resulted in a dead kid. He was wrong. The father realized, too late, that he would have preferred a live racist to a dead one, and he blamed himself for not being supportive enough of the racism. He should’ve listened to the expert, not his own moral compass. Smapti was wrong.
(I want to point out, though, I didn’t read anything Smapti wrote as being intolerant of transgendered people. He refused to modify his definition of sex/gender and was excoriated for it. I didn’t read anything that said he was morally opposed to transgendered people, or anything they do. His argument, as I read it, related to accuracy and definitions.)
Not generally, no.
I consider name-calling to be of lower literary and intellectual rigor. Although with your reasoned and erudite use of, “pissant,” I believe I stand corrected.
Except to suggest that they’re delusional.
There are clear differences between using racial slurs and expressing a preferred identity.
Are you not clear on the many differences between using racial slurs versus expressing a preferred identity? How is this even difficult for you? Were you born stupid or did you have some exposure to a neurotoxin?
All I can do is work with what you present. You seem to be mentally challenged and potentially disposed to racist sentiments. Furthermore, saying “what analogy?” is not discernibly clever or funny, so the best explanation was that your post was sincere.
Craft a meaningful analogy? Think very fast? Wipe without assistance?
Why can’t you just leave me to my grief and let me bury my daughter in peace?
But the father and mother, in your parallel analogy, are right. It is their proper duty as parents to teach their children not to be racists. That can be done without driving them to suicide.
Your false equivalence is stupid.
No duh.
Well I think you should make sure first none of the surrounding graves contain black people, ask the cemetery workers to be sure. You don’t want an angry ghost on your back!
Okay, whatever this all is supposed to be (thoughtful argumentation, pointed send-up, performance trollery, wild haymaker defensive effort), you just don’t seem to have the stuff necessary to pull it off.
Seriously. Take him out, coach, and bring in a closer. He’s just throwing grapefruits up there.
Yeah, but refusing to modify that is about the same level as “look, I ain’t got no problem with gays as long as they don’t go kissin in public or nothin’.”