fun fact: transgender and non-binary acceptance and freedom of speech are not mutually exclusive

@dzuk In this day and age, everyone who speaks of "freedom of speech" really means that they want the freedom to be absolute bigoted a**holes without any consequence...and they want anyone who disagrees with them to be silenced.

It's rubbish. :/

@ayachan yeah, it's fucking silly because there's no real philosophical substance really (other than as you said, campaining for the right to basically be a dick), just a rhetorical framing device that can easily be reversed.

'PEOPLE ARE PUSHING A RIGHT WING AGENDA ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES AND ARE TRYING TO DEPRIVE OUR FREE SPEECH RIGHTS AND INTELLECTUAL INTEGRITY'

@dzuk Of course there's no philosophical substance, because the people brandishing it about aren't interested in any sort of philosophical argument. All they are interested in is shoving their hatred and bigotry down everyone else's throats and attempting to use what they believe to be a "free pass" in the process.

Rationality is dead. The age of rhetoric, platitudes and hypocritical passion is in.

@ayachan IMO, I don't really think so because I don't think our political reality was never really that rational to begin with. Humans always have some rationality and some emotion (if you wanna frame it in that way), and that's okay, but it takes a certain kind of faculty to comb through the two to think clearly about something, and it's not something society teaches so a lot of people lack it, and it's routinely exploited, only now it's being exploited in new ways.