On any of the donation threads where it came up and he replied to it, the most he ever did was some half hearted corporate PR “apology” (ironic)

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      Think before you start acting like one of the worst things in human history.

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        Honestly… If I was going to be a transphobe, it would be because how you lot act on here, not due to actual right wing influences. Thankfully I have spoken to a few people who are transgender activists who are actually respectful, decent, and well grounded people. But the proportion of people I come across who aren’t at least makes me want to have nothing to do with the movement itself. Which is a real shame, because a few transgender people I have come across and know are lovely, but there’s a large voice out there giving them a bad name, and I feel like that voice may be contributing to the current political shift.

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          "First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action;” who paternalistically feels he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.”

          This quote gets a lot of use, I know, but it’s because there are so many Enlightened Centrists out there keeping it relevant.

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            I agree that trans people and black people should have equal rights including one to dignity and not face harassment for being trans/black. So no, it’s not the same.

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              Yes, King covered that: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”

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          Or it’s just people like you, the “peaceful moderate,” who wishes to dictate the timeline of another person’s life and rights, who only supports moral progress as long as it’s not personally upsetting or even disrupting to you.

          You do realize who absolutely vile what you just posted makes you sound, right? Like, you literally just victim blamed an entire prosecuted group for having activists that take issue with people trying to genocide the group.

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            I and Nutomic in this post both want trans people to have the same rights as everyone else. We aren’t trying to “genocide” anyone (despite trans people not being a race or religion, so “genocide” isn’t even applicable here, but sure, water down real genocides to be equivalent to you wanting amab people to compete against afab people in competitive and often violent sports)

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            I tell you lot to keep it respectful and I get labelled a transphobe. Again, if I was someone who didn’t have trans people that I cared about, I might assume that all of you are just nasty and that there is no reason to take you seriously. I’m sorry for giving you advice.