What type of people allow a 5 year old to transition!?
I was not saying it means respect. It definitely does not mean respect. It is used by people who are not willing to treat other people as fully human to label and dismiss the behavior being requested of them that they are not willing to do.
Example: a female firefighter asks to be referred to as a firefighter rather than a fireman - person who doesn’t want to learn and use a new term says “that’s just political correctness. It has always been fireman and if you insist on being one, that is what I will call you.” Firefighter says “I find that dismissive and feel like it implies women are not welcome.” Person responds “snowflake!” Sadly snowflake the firefighter will still save rude person’s life at the risk of her own.
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Culture does not "reflect real world". Culture is a part of real world. All the things I listed and more.
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People have always taken a risk by criticising those in power. Does that make the gulags OK?
You said:
I responded:
I did not say that you said that being criticised is the same with being sent to a gulag.
You used an analogy and I responded with an analogy. And I asked a question.
You are evading that question.
Evading this question? Lol. I never ever suggested anything would make gulags okay. These are my words:
But how does all that relate to your refusal to accept some common language for use in this discussion?
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But how does all that relate to your refusal to accept some common language for use in this discussion?
Ok, you said:
"As far as I can recollect, people always had their careers and livelihoods threatned for being rude, especially when their work required a lot of contact with other people."
Therefore cancelling people is Ok, right?
"As far as I can recollect, people always had their careers and livelihoods threatned for being rude, especially when their work required a lot of contact with other people."
Therefore cancelling people is Ok, right?
"Okay" or "not okay" of this phenomenon need case-by-case approach.
But again, how does that relate to this discussion and your refusal to agree on some basic definitions used? You accused me of evading questions but I can list several you have not answered.
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"As far as I can recollect, people always had their careers and livelihoods threatned for being rude, especially when their work required a lot of contact with other people."
Therefore cancelling people is Ok, right?
But again, how does that relate to this discussion and your refusal to agree on some basic definitions used? You accused me of evading questions but I can list several you have not answered.
Because I used a similar analogy but with gulags. Since people have always risked by criticizing those in power, at the cost of penalties, then the gulags were ok. It wasn't the first time that people were being punished.
I used the same logic you used for cancelling people.
Example: a female firefighter asks to be referred to as a firefighter rather than a fireman - person who doesn’t want to learn and use a new term says “that’s just political correctness. It has always been fireman and if you insist on being one, that is what I will call you.” Firefighter says “I find that dismissive and feel like it implies women are not welcome.” Person responds “snowflake!” Sadly snowflake the firefighter will still save rude person’s life at the risk of her own.
Snowflake is not the same as wimp. Snowflake means focusing too much on political activism. Wimp is me; scared of everything. I don't care if I'm the only one at work who uses a sign that says ''Men At Work'', it doesn't make me feel inferior as a woman, but I could never be a firefighter because I'm scared of fires.
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Terence McKenna would disagree:
"We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth."
That being said, I think it's not reasonable to give such importance to words like "man", "woman", etc. Someone calls a man a girl? So what. Humans are stupid. Why would you care? Don't make your mental wellbeing depend on the thoughts of other people, or on the words they use. Care about your friends and family, not about strangers.
You have not proven it invalid, you ignored it and "proven invalid" something I never claimed.
And you still didn't answer what is your problem with defining the terms to use in this discussion. Again reminding you of your accusations of me evading questions. Your turn. Answer.
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