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Originally Posted by kerowo
I don't understand how they equate something like calling all 1.5 billion muslims terrorist
This is a knowingly false statement
This is a knowingly false statement. Whether something is normal, healthy behavior in a clinical sense, and something we should promote in people who aren't naturally inclined that way (and what the consequences are), is a legitimate topic of debate. It might be uncomfortable for you, who sees racism and bigotry everywhere like OCD people see problems everywhere, but it's a perfectly valid discussion to have.
And it affects real people. For example, 75% of children grow out of trans behavior as they get older, if no intervention is done. Given this, should we put children on hormones when they exhibit such behavior? Surgically mutilate their bodies? Different hospitals take different views. That is a real and important debate and it affects real people, including children. Whether trans identity is a mental illness like body dismorphia, whether it is "normal" - and does same apply to anorexia? should we be kidnapping, restraining and torturing anorexics as we do? - is a real and important topic of political debate. I understand it makes you uncomfortable, but not all politics is comfortable, I'm afraid.
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with being called bigoted or racist. One is definitely hate speech that should be removed from 2+2, the other is simply observation.
You simply lack the sophistication to be part of this debate, I'm afraid. You hair trigger everything into "HATE SPEECH", and it's neither productive to your aims nor good posting.