• shastaxc@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Trans students are witches now? That’s very insensitive of you.

    EDIT: thanks for editing your post and to make me look stupid. Original post was “Literal witch hunt” so I was pointing out the improper use of the word “literal”. It’s clear that OP understood because he edited it out of his post and followed up saying he meant “figurative”.

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      2 months ago

      That is not at all what I intended to say. I mean it is a witch hunt in the figurative sense.

      If you have a suggestion on how I could rephrase my sentence to be more clear, I’d gladly change it.

      Anyways the word “witch” has also been reclaimed by an alternative culture but that’s beside the point.

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          2 months ago

          You’re replying to an edited comment and missing the context of the exchange

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            My original comment was “literally a witch hunt”, and after you replied I decided to edit it to say “it’s a witch hunt” to be more clear I’m not saying trans people are witches.

            As said below I’d gladly change it if you provide a reasonable suggestion but please don’t accuse me of editing in bad faith because I’m literally doing it for you.

            And yes all my comments have the edit symbol because I have the bad habit of posting the comment then editing it to write an extra paragraph in the seconds after it was posted lol.

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              I don’t think any reasonable person would assume you were saying trans people are witches. It’s called an analogy. I got the gist of what you were saying. Cruz is trying to imply that “Trans people are a scary boogeyman man that we need to label and ostracize via a public outing“. Yep this sorta sounds like a witch hunt to me too. 🤣

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      2 months ago

      Your edit to their edit just makes you look even more petty and whiny.

      Fucking hell, just accept that they tried to correct their comment to clarify that they weren’t trying to villainize trans kids.

      You can either take the stance that you helped them clarify their opinion to be better understood or you can be outraged. At first you were outraged at their “wrong speak”, after the edit you’re outraged that they edited their comment to make you look stupid.

      Not eveeyone in this world gives a shit about you, your thoughts, and your feelings. Some people are just trying to have reasonable discourse here.

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        2 months ago

        You seem to care. And yes, I am petty. Thank you for your attention.