There are so many transphobic people in chat it's actually ridiculous
Mods have been doing their best, so so thankful for their work
These red pilled little boys need to leave, bro
I don’t like them either, but lowkey it’s a public space and unless they’re indicting straight harassment I think it’s important to not ban, or exclude people based off of their political views or norms. It’s a democracy and if you tell everyone from one side to leave you’re just gonna make an echo chamber
It's more nuanced than this, though. Transphobia includes misgendering someone, right? Well, there are at least two major religions in which transgenderism is considered a sin, including lying about someone's sex. But I would suppose you would prefer those people not be allowed to have their freedom of expression, right? For some people to be free, others have to be silenced.
Edit: Removed yap.
Exactly this. It’s a big world and it’s important to realise this and not make communities into echo chambers where you disallow anything that is not within your ideologies.
The nuances are massive and it truly feels like a lot if people think you can control or decide what other people can think. It’s very dangerous ngl
I'm not necessarily agreeing with one side or the other, here. I'm just pointing out that there is no such thing as right to expression when you're actively silencing another side for disagreeing with you.
One can claim they're doing the right thing because the other side is being hateful, but if you ask a devout Christian to look at a man and call them a woman, you're asking them to defy their religion, is that not hateful? Is that freedom of expression?
I say this as someone who'll happily refer to Florescent as a woman. I just recognise that the other side also has the right to not refer to trans-women as women. Especially if it requires them rejecting their own beliefs. At that point you're just telling them to shut up and bow down you.
See, here's where things get interesting. What is hate speech?
It's hate speech and punishable to call the President of China Winnie the Pooh if you live in China. Do you agree?
It's hate speech and punishable to reject certain religions in a certain countries. Do you agree?
It's hate speech and punishable to misgender someone in the UK. Do you agree?
You might agree with all of these, or only one or two of them. But notice how the definition of hate speech changes from culture to culture. So, tell me at what points should we restrict freedom of expression in order to combat hate speech, and I'll tell you why the culture next door will tell you something different.
it just is what it is. close chat and focus on the game, as long as flor exists in VCT people will never stop bringing up her identity in chat and there are 3 reasons why:
a) they actually don't know - this is okay as long as they don't continue to bring it up/be disrespectful once they learn
b) they are ragebaiting - i suspect this is the most common reason why people bring it up, because they have pathetic little lives and triggering people/getting banned in stream chats is the only thing that brings them joy
c) they just want to take any opportunity to be transphobic - overlap with the one above too, 99.9% of ragebaiters are also transphobic anyway
as someone who isn't trans but is LGBT at some point you become numb to it and learn to ignore, it never truly stops hurting knowing how many people want you literally dead, but at the same time it's whatever, VCT chat isn't real life