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There is certainly a lot of unwarranted outrage over ads like this. Personally it's a little disgusting, it bewilders me, and I will probably avoid Calvin Klein products from now on, but some of you take it far beyond that. I also think this woman mutilated her body, but I can't be certain that he/she/they isn't happy. This is adults exercising freedoms. Not an opportunity to trash people.
It is easy for disgust to turn into hate, and that leads to problems. It sort of justifies the trans lifestyle in these people's minds. In some weird way. I think it's good to talk of the harm mutilating one's body can bring, but we can do that while still respecting these human beings. Someone trying to change genders doesn't need hate, they need help.
The standard for acceptable protest/boycott actions is up to and including what you would do but not beyond. Got it.
I just hold the above opinion, that the extreme outrage and hate are unwarranted and bad. Is it ok for me to have this opinion, or maybe does my opinion hurt you in some way?
I do not always agree with you, but I respect your opions and points as almost always well thought out. Genuinely curious:
1. What is the defintion of "extreme outrage?" For example, I would easily define "extreme outrage" as the burning, looting, and murdering of 2020 - $4B and at least 14 murders in response to disinformation felt "extreme." Are all boycotts "extreme?" What makes a boycott "extreme?" I feel like wanting to groom and sexualize children is "extreme" and opposing it is a logical and moral response to protest conversastion therapy and pedophilia.
2. What is the defintion of "hate?" Do you have an example of hate directed at a trans person / community related to politics? For example, I would define the trans group that mocks Chritianity, Jesus, and Catholicism as an anti-Christian hate group (the group that was invited to the Dodgers gay celebration). Do you have similar examples of mainstream organizations celebrating groups that similar mock gays?
There is extreme outrage over these sorts of societal issues from both sides. People tweet and twit about them like it is the end of America. I know it is just an act from many of them, but it is often an extreme response in my opinion.
To 2, I do not know of political hate towards too many groups at all, from either political party. I don't think I mentioned politics, I'm talking about this as a societal issue.
Maybe it was ignorance, maybe it was stupidity, maybe it was intentional, but you ignored the simple quetions presented, so I will ask again:
1. What is the defintion of "extreme outrage?" For example, I would easily define "extreme outrage" as the burning, looting, and murdering of 2020 - $4B and at least 14 murders in response to disinformation felt "extreme." Are all boycotts "extreme?" What makes a boycott "extreme?" I feel like wanting to groom and sexualize children is "extreme" and opposing it is a logical and moral response to protest conversastion therapy and pedophilia.
2. What is the defintion of "hate?" Do you have an example of hate directed at a trans person / community related to politics? For example, I would define the trans group that mocks Chritianity, Jesus, and Catholicism as an anti-Christian hate group (the group that was invited to the Dodgers gay celebration). Do you have similar examples of mainstream organizations celebrating groups that similar mock gays?
I thought you wanted a real answer. Do you not have a dictionary in your house?
In fairness, people, including you, tend to have definitions that may not entirely match Mr. Webster's.
An example? I don't recall making up alternative definitions of words. Surely you have something in mind? I hope it's "zealot."
The dictionary definition of a word does not always capture the nuances that individuals and groups apply to them. For example, you seem to think that "extreme outrage" involves angry posts on Twitter while others think "extreme outrage" is better exemplified by burning the house down. In fairness, there's nothing wrong with asking you to clarify what you mean by particular terms.
Are you saying the general conservative societal response to transgendered people is limited to tweets? Straw something or other.
That would be a moderately accurate statement. There are so few trannies (.5% or so) that one rarely actually encounters them in day to day life. The primary exposure the ordinary person gets is, indeed, via media of one form or the other, in no small part because elite culture romanticizes the phenomenon. The newer exposure is on social media directly from trannies themselves, because they believe their lifestyle has become normalized and so they flaunt their wares, so to speak. Ordinary people might grumble quietly about that to themselves or within small groups of close friends, but there really isn't much public outrage, in the classical sense, until we start seeing education establishments exposing kids to it as the natural order of things. Even then, the public conservative pushback is limited primarily to activists (to the quiet relief of a far larger number of people.) The explosion of public outrage happens spontaneously when corporate America starts pandering to it. It's one thing to go fight city hall. That takes time and effort. But buying a different brand of product is as easy as drawing a dollar bill out of one's pocket.
that's the normal progression of things. The left embraces something crazy in the name of "inclusion." The ordinary person typically shrugs & says "well, that's crazy, but hey, it's a free country, so whatever...." But the left doesn't just want space to be. It wants to own the stage. So it starts gaslighting and kafkatrapping and finally organizing cancellation of anyone who dares question the "something." Then the ordinary person correctly realizes there is not just a cost to speaking out, but actual risk: accidentally making a truthful statement about the something...family divisions, friendship loss, job consequences or loss....so the seething starts. Then, finally, the "something" perceives lack of public pushback as a signal they've won the argument, and steps out in the shoes of hegemony to demand not just compliance but enthusiastic participation. The silent majority finally stands up & said "I don't think so, Tim," prompting the left to run around holding its panties in the air railing about all the -ism and -phobery going on.
Reality is, one can usually assume anyone using the words "tolerance" or "inclusivity" or "diversity" to be making the case for exactly the opposite - conform or incur consequences. In virtually all cases, it is the left doing the bullying of everyone else, self-righteously presuming that it does so to overcome the latent fascism of everyone who does not feel the same way.