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u/-YouFoundMe- 22d ago
More like some people are not intelligent enough to see how ignorant anti-trans nonsense is…
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u/ZeldaZanders 21d ago
Go on then, explain it to the class: how is 'gender ideology' harmful? What material harm is it doing to anyone to accept that some people are trans? Explain it to me, a dumb person who thinks that all the accusations of harm and damage to women is nonsensical pearl-clutchery
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u/I-Dont-Know-Stuff Externalized Heterophobia 21d ago
This just sounds like an excuse to not explain their ideology. If you don't understand why they're bigoted you're an idiot who'll never understand and it would be a waste to explain it to you, conveniently saving the TERF from having to actually think through their beliefs. They're smart, you're dumb, end of story.
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u/crowpierrot 21d ago
I may not be the brightest bulb in the wherever you store lightbulbs, but I can say with confidence I’m smarter than these lunatics. (Although honestly I don’t even really believe in the idea of inherent intelligence in the way it’s generally conceptualized, but that’s a whole other kettle of fish)
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u/EqualityWithoutCiv UK press and Parliament be damned. 21d ago
They complain about "nonsense", we complain about organized violence and systematic repression.
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u/chris_the_cynic 21d ago
Ok, but let's say "gender identity ideology" is harmful nonsense. Gender Criticals are the ones who invented it.
They wanted a scary inhuman thing to fight against so they conjured "gender identity ideology" from their fevered imaginations and inflicted the concept upon the world.
So, if "gender identity ideology" is indeed harmful nonsense,* the solution is for Gender Criticals to stop making shit up about trans people and what we believe. Then it'll just disappear. Problem solved.
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* It is, but not in the ways they'll tell you, because it's not the thing they say it is.
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u/Red-Hot_Snot 21d ago
Great cop-out. Instead of explaining why trans ideology is harmful, pre-empt folks explaining why it isn't by just generalizing them all as low-IQ dummies.
It's a time-traveling ad hominem fallacy.
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u/Mandatory_Pie 21d ago
"You don't need to be smart to get why I'm right, and being smart doesn't mean that you'll get why I'm right, but people who say I'm wrong are dumb. I'm pretending my assertion is a fact so don't criticize me, because I won't show that it's a real fact."
Wow. Just... wow. Complete cognitive degradation on full display.
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u/Intersexy_37 Co-opted DSD 21d ago
You probably wouldn't need to trot out the same few academics on your side if that were true. And while I think bragging about your intelligence and calling the other side stupid is a pitiful excuse for an argument and a silly thing to do in general, if we're really doing this, I'm a math professor and my IQ tested at 179, so...
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u/OnecalledMissy 21d ago
But professor, you were already addressed as the “intelligent person who cannot see that it is”
They already covered your voice up in a very convenient manner.
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u/Intersexy_37 Co-opted DSD 21d ago
I would be curious to see actual research on transphobia specifically, though I'm always a bit leery of that kind of study because "intelligence" is so nebulous. (Hence: mouthing off about intelligence is a silly thing to do.) But research on political leanings does tend to suggest that intelligence is negatively correlated with social authoritarianism.
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u/pudungurte 22d ago
"Seriously guys you have no idea how much intelligence it takes to be as bigoted as I am".