Transphobic comments

Intentionally silencing the truth

  • PowerSeries@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Careful you don’t come off as a sealion.

    Though this is a thread about Wayland so eh.

    • clearleaf@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      This comic never made sense to me. She hates sea lions because they don’t let people talk shit about them. Seems like she’s the problem here in neo london where sapient sea lions live among us. They’re here, get over it.

      • Kindness@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        because they don’t let people talk shit about them

        The manner in which you engage in dialogue is important.

        Pretending to not understand another person’s viewpoint, and annoying them into compliance, is arguing in bad faith. Arguments in bad faith are malicious deception.

        Nobody wants to speak with sea lions because even if you explain in good faith, it won’t amount to anything except your own frustration. A summary of the heart of the sea lion: Arguing with me is pointless. “And now that you’re mad, you’ll know better than to talk shit about sea lions.”

        Don’t be a sea lion. You can protest opinions without being manipulative or rude about it.

        • Communist@lemmy.ml
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          1 year ago

          …do you actually think the sea lion understands why people hate sea lions?

          None of this is in the comic.

    • Communist@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’m absolutely team sea-lion here, did you read that comic?

      I mean, just imagine if the sea-lion was a black person…

    • Kindness@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The point of the sea lion is persistent argument in bad faith.

      The difference between, “prove your opinion,” can be subtle in its difference from, “why do you think that?”

      Insinuating someone is badgering and being maliciously dishonest, because they asked for context, is poor etiquette.