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In reply to the discussion: Today I learned that many people posting here are transphobic. [View all]Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)When it comes to those two topics, it is very hard to tell the difference between DU and sites like FR and even worse right wing sites.
It is beyond hurtful. It is the height of stupidity. There is a difference between ignorance and stupidity. Posters with an ignorant state of mind are not aware of how offensive something is. Posters with a willfully stupid state of mind are aware of how offensive something is, but refuse to learn when people are right there trying to educate them. They are not only offensive, stupid and rude, but some go as far as to alert stalk the LGBT Group with silly alerts if any of us in the LGBT community dare tries to vent about the amount of outright hatred toward us on DU. In the past, there were homophobic and transphobic posters on DU who came to the old DU2 Forum and actively taunted us and posted outright lies as fact. We had to put up with it until those posters were tombstoned for other reasons for posting horrid nonsense in another part of DU on other topics.
DU3 seems to be a free for all with just about anything allowed. We do, as a community, have a little control of the LGBT Group nowadays with hosts able to block members, but there isn't a thing in the world we can do about the alert stalkers who try to shut us up through the jury system if we dare complain. It effectively shuts our conversations about the transphobia and homophobia on DU down...or makes us have to start new threads on those topics.
So, watch out. Your post here might get shut down as "meta" by the pro homophobia/transphobia contingent here on DU. I'm glad you said something/spoke up about the transphobia on DU though. It needed to be said.