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Ted Cruz falsely calls 2 cis teen girls “boys” in desperate search for trans athletes to demonize
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It’s a witch hunt
EDIT: this comment was originally “literally a witch hunt” but I changed it because I was told it might be interpreted as saying trans people are witches which I obviously did not intend. This edit was not intended to make the user who accused me “look stupid” as they insinuate, but to improve the comment at their request.
I saw a meme the other day that really struck home for me. I don't remember the exact phrasing, but the gist was: "Nobody has ever killed a witch."
Witches don't exist. Witches are the thing you hunt for when you want someone to blame for all the things you think are wrong in the world. Because you can catch that witch. You can torture and kill it to make it pay for all the evils you think you've suffered. But witches don't exist, so you have to find a person. A person just outside of normal enough that you can convince someone else they're a witch. Once others are convinced they'll help you come up with all kinds of justifications for why the witch needs to be punished and killed. Everyone knows that witches are evil, and everyone loves a good witch hunt, because getting rid of witches means you're making the world a better place.
But witches don't exist.
Everyone knows what a witch hunt means. And almost everyone knows how to not feed the troll. It is insane that you succumbed to any idiot suggesting that "witch hunt" would demonize trans students. By the same coin, when Trump talked of his impeachment as "witch hunt", he did not come out as a witch, did he? This is preposterous.
Trans students are witches now? That's very insensitive of you.
EDIT: thanks for editing your post and to make me look stupid. Original post was "Literal witch hunt" so I was pointing out the improper use of the word "literal". It's clear that OP understood because he edited it out of his post and followed up saying he meant "figurative".
That is not at all what I intended to say. I mean it is a witch hunt in the figurative sense.
If you have a suggestion on how I could rephrase my sentence to be more clear, I’d gladly change it.
Anyways the word “witch” has also been reclaimed by an alternative culture but that’s beside the point.
You're replying to a troll, I wouldn't bother
You're replying to an edited comment and missing the context of the exchange
My original comment was “literally a witch hunt”, and after you replied I decided to edit it to say “it’s a witch hunt” to be more clear I’m not saying trans people are witches.
As said below I’d gladly change it if you provide a reasonable suggestion but please don’t accuse me of editing in bad faith because I’m literally doing it for you.
And yes all my comments have the edit symbol because I have the bad habit of posting the comment then editing it to write an extra paragraph in the seconds after it was posted lol.
I don’t think any reasonable person would assume you were saying trans people are witches. It’s called an analogy. I got the gist of what you were saying. Cruz is trying to imply that “Trans people are a scary boogeyman man that we need to label and ostracize via a public outing“. Yep this sorta sounds like a witch hunt to me too. 🤣
Your edit to their edit just makes you look even more petty and whiny.
Fucking hell, just accept that they tried to correct their comment to clarify that they weren't trying to villainize trans kids.
You can either take the stance that you helped them clarify their opinion to be better understood or you can be outraged. At first you were outraged at their "wrong speak", after the edit you're outraged that they edited their comment to make you look stupid.
Not eveeyone in this world gives a shit about you, your thoughts, and your feelings. Some people are just trying to have reasonable discourse here.
You seem to care. And yes, I am petty. Thank you for your attention.