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Originally Posted by Tom4784

More bull**** prompted by the fact you're hurt that I'm not wowed by your shallow centrism.

Trying to make out that I'm tribalistic and lack self awareness is ultimately an own goal on your part. You have to keep making out that 'both sides' are beneath you to inflate your ego when in truth you identify with one side more than the other but it's all about your self-image so you delude yourself about your views to try to seem like you're operating from a neutral perspective when you aren't.

At the end of the day, I know bull**** when I see it, and centrists reek of it, and they always have. It's all about them trying to impress people with a level of intellect that isn't there. Centrists are just people suffering with delusions of grandeur and main character syndrome.

And transphobia is bigotry, if I was to take what you wrote before about gender and changed the words to equal terms representing race, you would be seen as a racist, what makes you think that it's not bigotry to approach gender in a similar fashion? Ego, that's what.

You're also engaging in more pageantry for the right wing side by making out that any opposition to transphobia is somehow not valid and is just pageantry in itself. Because any views that oppose yours can't be valid, right? Really an unfathomable lack of self awareness.

I just can't get ahead around you, of all people, chastising people for thinking that "any opposing views can't be valid" when you are literally the worst for that very thing on this forum and frankly one of the worst for it I've ever encountered. I take on all sorts of views on this forum; you brand anyone who doesn't hold the same views as you as either stupid, a bigot, or disingenuous. You're an aggressive zealot Dezzy and it's basically impossible for anyone to engage with in any meaningful way - and that's why no one really even tries at this point. I could try to engage with why I think race and gender are inherently different - because gender itself is a social construct, and one founded in oppression of women - but I know there's little if any point.

I don't make out that "both sides are beneath me" and I frequently take a side, I'm just willing to listen to moderate views on both. I'm not interested in dogma and extremism "on either side" because, yes, it's anti-intellectualism and a waste of everyone's time.