Also in Peak Philosophy, Veronica Ivy explains that laws cannot be questioned or criticized, much less flouted (goodbye civil rights movements and protests all over the world). If it’s the law it’s pointless for you to say it’s mistaken or sinister or just plain evil. Nazi law? Slave state law? Saudi law? Never you mind whether they’re just or not, they’re the law. Sit down.
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Apparently, it doesn’t even matter if it’s actually the law either.
Sneer quotes on legally? So he realizes this is a farce, and he is being ridiculous? Or he just likes to use quotes? Oops, I just misgendered him twice (oops, make that thrice).
A man cannot become a woman. It doesn’t matter if you disagree: it’s a statement of fact.
@Iknklast;
Those aren’t “sneer quotes” — they’re *asterisks*, which in some programs create italics, and on some forums are used as emphasis.
Given “Veronica’s” propensity for *drama,* though, it should have been written “It is LEGALLY considered as such etc etc…”
When it doesn’t matter what your opponents think, you aren’t the one being oppressed.
As far as I can tell that isn’t true.
Thanks, Sastra, I was reading it on my tablet, and it looked like quotes. I can see it better now that I’m on my computer.
Intentionally misgendering a trans woman (but not a trans man?) is not hate speech in Canadian law. Not in the criminal code, and only in very specific ares of the HRC (like employment and services).
The logic is just bizarre, because the implication is that if there is no law that makes it hate speech, it isn’t hate speech. So I guess it is fine to use Rhys/him/he in South Carolina? Somehow, I suspect that would not play well at College of Charleston.