# What were you THINKING?

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**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532 "2023-10-13T19:36:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 7, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/4668 "2025-04-07T13:54:46Z")

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> [@Gyrate](#):
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> You two think segregation was a “fringe” view?

No? Are you as stupid as you are fanatic? Where the fuck did I say that segregation was a “fringe” view in the past? DemonTree was clearly talking about segregation _today_, which is indeed a long discredited fringe view.

> [@Gyrate](#):
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> And you think comparisons between the Nazi treatment of trans people and other minorities and what the current administration are pushing are “ridiculous”?

The current administration is trying to shove trans people back in the figurative closet. This is incredibly fucked up, represents decades worth of progress lost, and will very likely cost lives.

The Nazis put trans people in _literal_ gas chambers and then killed them.

You can call out the first one for being bad while recognizing that these are not the same thing, yes.

Actually, correction - most adult human beings can do that - but I refer you to the previously posted diagram:

[https://i.ibb.co/p6H1jqs6/Screenshot-20250405-145400-Samsung-Internet.jpg](https://i.ibb.co/p6H1jqs6/Screenshot-20250405-145400-Samsung-Internet.jpg)

To quote Order of the Stick again… Evidence for this theory continues to accumulate at an alarming rate.

> [@What is the maximum extent to which we are allowed to disagree with transgenderism (on the Dope)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-extent-to-which-we-are-allowed-to-disagree-with-transgenderism-on-the-dope/1015807/54):
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> > [@What is the maximum extent to which we are allowed to disagree with transgenderism (on the Dope)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-extent-to-which-we-are-allowed-to-disagree-with-transgenderism-on-the-dope/1015807/54):
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> > > [@What is the maximum extent to which we are allowed to disagree with transgenderism (on the Dope)?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-maximum-extent-to-which-we-are-allowed-to-disagree-with-transgenderism-on-the-dope/1015807/53):
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> > > _people should be treated accordingly in every area of **PUBLIC** life without regard for aspects of biological sex, and various other things._
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> > But she didn’t, did she? And is treating people in the qualified way you present an extremist position?
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> The mod note in that thread prevented any response to this. Perhaps you’d like to answer now?

If by “every area of public life” you include sports, then yes, that’s an extremist position held by under 20% of the US population, and under 30% of Democrats.

If you don’t include sports, and since “public” already carves out the exceptions most people would find it reasonable to consider sex assigned at birth for, like picking sexual partners or interactions with doctors, then it becomes a much less extreme position that’s supported by a much wider swath of the population (And a majority of Democrats).

I really don’t think anything I’m saying there is particularly controversial.

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