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ballz said:It is common decency, but that's it and that's all. We can't make every action that does not follow common decency illegal. And to not follow common decency to be a human rights violation? The idea is ludicrous. The test is very easy.... is someone committing violence towards someone by not following their pronouns? No? Then the appropriate response is not violence (forcible confinement). This is why the radical left has come up with terms like "microaggression" and tries to say that these things cause "harm," to people.... because aggression is violence, and harm is the result of violence, so therefore, the appropriate response to it is violence. They are literally trying to control language to make the use of violence against deniers legitimate....
I agree with you. And, as we have both noted, we both know people in the LGBTQ community, whom we treat well and decently, so I doubt we are LGBTQ-phobic.
As a caveat, though, I would say that you can "harm" a person without violence: denying them a job, not promoting them, or firing them solely on the basis of who they are, is harmful as far as I can see. But that isn't actually the point here.
I tend to group these far-left types in the same boat as the "cultural appropriation" crew: worrying about things that actually don't matter all that much, and at the same time by their antics actually undermining good and useful intentions to see that all people are treated fairly.