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Showing Original Post only (View all)Trans folks are not deadly weapons. The comparrison is dehumanizing. [View all]
What motivates folks to make such comparisons?
And now we even have a poll about it?
WTF???
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Trans folks are not deadly weapons. The comparrison is dehumanizing. [View all]
stone space
May 2016
OP
What a maroon. I can't believe someone actually went there. Must have been a gun-nutter.
madinmaryland
May 2016
#6
I didn't- I compared two moral panics to each other, *not* 'people to inanimate objects'
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#8
The OP isn't about me. But your attempt to change the subject is revealing. (nt)
stone space
May 2016
#12
Perhaps a self-avowed Zimmerman supporter is not the one to be spreading that message?
stone space
May 2016
#16
How many other people given a fair trial and found not guilty do you want incarcerated?
Lurks Often
May 2016
#18
How many other people given a fair trial and found not guilty do you want incarcerated?
Lurks Often
May 2016
#20
sometimes people deserve public shaming. this is one of those moments
La Lioness Priyanka
May 2016
#37
No shame accrues, as the doctrinaire and mendacious have no moral authority
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#38
And others are easily led to believe they see what someone else wants them to see, but...
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#44
Dehumanizing. Yes, Such accusations have been noticed by the Mental Health Community
HereSince1628
May 2016
#41
It *would* have been dehumanizing, if such a suggestion had actually been made.
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#45
Thank you for the support, but it appears the OP has abandoned his thread
friendly_iconoclast
May 2016
#46