cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/29640152

On July 29, 2025, LinkedIn removed “misgendering or deadnaming” from examples of prohibited content in its policy on hateful and derogatory content.

  • CrayonDevourer@lemmy.world
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    Being “complete bigoted assholes” are how we, as a society keep errant members in check. It’s a feature of the tribalism inherent in humanity. Scoffing at someone being a thief, for example - we don’t consider that “bigoted”, only because we all mostly agree that it’s bad.

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      Trans people are errant society members who need to be kept in check by completely bigoted assholes?

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      So blocking complete bigoted errant assholes is, like, a positive force for the world. Cool.

      Cool cool cool.

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        Reality is often a shithole, I agree. But we all gotta live in it. Utopian dreams are just that…dreams. Time to wake up.

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          great! the world is a shithole because of assholes, so let’s just all be assholes… what an asshole self-fulfilling thing to say

          personally, i prefer to leave the world a better place than what i found it, and people better off for my presence in it

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            YOU don’t have to be an asshole. That’s your decision.

            It’s when you start making the decision for OTHERS that you become the asshole yourself. You don’t get to police speech. If I want to call you Blinky the fucking ass-clown, I can. It’s the moment where you step over the line and determine what other people are allowed to say that you become the asshole. Enough of you utopian dickheads trying to nice-wash the internet.

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            You know that Utopia is so “perfect” that its etymology actually means “Nowhere”? Because it’s imaginary.