I hate the term “homophobic” and I never thought I’d hate a term more but I think “transphobia” took its spot. The idea that acknowledging basic reality is bigoted shows how crazy society is. Also shoving lgbt stuff down people’s throat (especially trans crap) gets highly annoying. The vast majority of people are straight yet somehow we need to be inundated with this stuff
I can at least understand how the other isms became taboo, since it's manifestly unjust to judge or treat a person according to immutable characteristics. Of course almost no one actually hates every last individual member of any given race or ethnicity, or of one sex, and even the most racist regimes in history had multiracial cooperation.
But it amazes me that anyone could feel the same kind of outrage at "transphobia" that we intuitively feel towards slavery or genocide or racial caste systems, because a man who thinks he's a woman (or vice-versa) is simply insane. I can understand a certain amount of pity, however the same people who have such strong feels for deranged men who LARP as women are otherwise contemptuous in the extreme towards deranged men.
It's like the "place, Japan" meme, but with "incel" vs "incel, dressed as woman" instead. So I don't think that pity for freaks, let alone male freaks, is what animates proglodytes to get so angry on the behalf of troons.
It's not manifestly unjust to "judge or treat a person according to immutable characteristics". You could even argue it's preferable, depending on context. We don't intuitively feel outrage at slavery or genocide or racial caste systems either. All of the above is learned behavior passed down through culture. Widespread moral opposition to those things (rather than simply hating when it's done to our in-group) is a modern phenomenon brought on by globalization, the spread of Christianity, and expansion of our "circle of empathy."
I only point this relativism out because it's important to realize that our culture is something special that could be completely subverted and turned on its head. There is no limit to the depths that humanity can fall if we don't protect what we consider moral and just, which has been built over generations of civilization.
I hate the term “homophobic” and I never thought I’d hate a term more but I think “transphobia” took its spot. The idea that acknowledging basic reality is bigoted shows how crazy society is. Also shoving lgbt stuff down people’s throat (especially trans crap) gets highly annoying. The vast majority of people are straight yet somehow we need to be inundated with this stuff
I can at least understand how the other isms became taboo, since it's manifestly unjust to judge or treat a person according to immutable characteristics. Of course almost no one actually hates every last individual member of any given race or ethnicity, or of one sex, and even the most racist regimes in history had multiracial cooperation.
But it amazes me that anyone could feel the same kind of outrage at "transphobia" that we intuitively feel towards slavery or genocide or racial caste systems, because a man who thinks he's a woman (or vice-versa) is simply insane. I can understand a certain amount of pity, however the same people who have such strong feels for deranged men who LARP as women are otherwise contemptuous in the extreme towards deranged men.
It's like the "place, Japan" meme, but with "incel" vs "incel, dressed as woman" instead. So I don't think that pity for freaks, let alone male freaks, is what animates proglodytes to get so angry on the behalf of troons.
It's not manifestly unjust to "judge or treat a person according to immutable characteristics". You could even argue it's preferable, depending on context. We don't intuitively feel outrage at slavery or genocide or racial caste systems either. All of the above is learned behavior passed down through culture. Widespread moral opposition to those things (rather than simply hating when it's done to our in-group) is a modern phenomenon brought on by globalization, the spread of Christianity, and expansion of our "circle of empathy."
I only point this relativism out because it's important to realize that our culture is something special that could be completely subverted and turned on its head. There is no limit to the depths that humanity can fall if we don't protect what we consider moral and just, which has been built over generations of civilization.
Very good point.