You have been warned.
Does the reasoning apply to all possible existences? Will he let [targets] erase the existence of flying horses, talking dogs, red-headed ghosts, pedantic extraterrestrial visitors? Will he claim to be a talking dog or a pedantic extraterrestrial? Will he try to claim that because he is a talking dog therefore [targets] are erasing his existence? Will he refuse to tolerate it? How will his refusal to tolerate it manifest itself?
These are deep questions.
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¡Viva la brigada del odio!
To the extent of my knowledge, Rowling is not attempting to “erase the existence of trans people.” By falsely claiming that she is trying to do such a thing, her real intents are being erased – in effect erasing a bit of herself. “Sophie Molly” is erasing Rowling’s existence.
How does failure to believe a claim = erasure of the claimant? There’s no connection. The world would have to be entirely imaginary for that to work.
Person A: “I’m a unicorn.”
Person B: ” There’s no such thing!”
Person A: vanishes without so much as a puff of smoke.
Unfortunately for him, there really is an actual material reality which isn’t affected by his imagination. Unfortunately for the rest of us, if absolutely everyone else suddenly agreed that there’s no such thing as ‘trans’, he would go on stubbornly existing.
Molly is a grotesque but I do wish Rowling would ignore him. Yes, he is re-tweeted to pointing and laughing but I guess he would like any sort of attention. The same goes for Willoughby.
Hey, Hogwarts Legacy has a tavern owner that is clearly a female character model but a male VA; what’s this asshole on about? (Still trying to figure out if they added an Adam’s apple, but I keep thinking Ichabod Crane whenever I look).
I remember way back to my early skeptic days when I first started dealing with psychics, astrologers, channelers, and other proponents of what came to be called “woo.” They were almost uniformly liberal, strongly inclined to refuse to be debated, tested, or even questioned by people who weren’t eager to believe — and nasty when they couldn’t avoid it. All that peace, love, and harmony went out the window when it wasn’t just taken for granted that their personal experience made them experts. “I know what I know.”
Their identity was so wrapped up in being an adept of some sort that questioning their powers was treated very like questioning their existence. Huffy. I don’t remember if any of them went for the “I do true woo how dare you erase my existence” line, but it wouldn’t surprise me if they did. Particularly if done by those who claimed past lives.
And so yet again we find that we’re dealing with out of control narcissism. Which is so odd because surely everyone knows how repellent narcissism is in other people – how do they manage not to consider how it looks when they wear it?
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This may be a merely rhetorical question, but in my experience, most narcissists don’t recognize their own narcissism, though they see it well enough in others (though sometimes seeing it where it doesn’t exist).
Those questions are always non-rhetorical in the sense that I would welcome a convincing answer. They are always rhetorical in the sense that I don’t expect anyone to know the answer.