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If I tell a trans woman I hope she dies in a car explosion and gets crushed by an elephant it’s just going to be taken as a silly joke right? Not like it’s realistic. I mean if that trans dude can issue death threats when they are funny silly so I right?

This is a fascinating question and definitely not at all trolling.

The difference between threatening a trans person with violence and threatening a privileged, cis-white-hetero male with the same thing is that violence is committed against trans people every day. There is no question that if someone was actually threatening the life of a wealthy tech CEO that any number of systems would jump in to support him and ensure his safety (his own posts on the subject prove this point).

Those same systems fail trans folk every single day, in a multitude of large and small ways, leading to the type of trolling and misgendering you so eloquently illustrate in your fake question.

To be clear, sure, I guess if you told someone that you hoped an elephant fell from the sky and crushed them it would be considered a joke. It wouldn't be particularly funny, but it does not resemble anything close to reality. Threatening someone with a car explosion is a different thing, and I note that you did not use the same language (car covered in hammers, hammers exploding everywhere, etc) which makes it less of a "joke" and more of a threat of intent.

Our freedom of speech in this country gives us permission to say whatever the fuck we want. It doesn't give people a free pass to be an asshole or to deny someone's individual pursuit to exist as they please and be safe from harm or threats of harm.

Is there a double-standard that I have less concern about the wellbeing of a cis-gendered white tech dude than I do about a trans person? Sure it's a double-standard. Because our culture has said that these people over here are okay to live an unbothered life and these people over there are wrong, deviant, sinful and destroying America, and there are very real laws written every day to prevent them from accessing the same quality of life as everyone else.

So, sure, if you want to tell a trans person that you hope they die in a fire, that a piano drops on their head, or whatever stupid shit you want to say, you are within your legal right to do so. And they are well within their rights to block the fuck out of you for being an asshole and a threat to their desire to live a fucking normal, peaceful life without jackasses constantly harassing them.

So glad you were the first question I've been asked on this stupid site in however many years I've had an account open and that you've given me the opportunity to express how truly deplorable of a human being you are for thinking you are being clever.

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Okay, I lied, I made another one. I like this totally real illustration even better than the last one because it's dumb.

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#predstrogen #totally real thing that would actually happen #ai art #hammers exploding everywhere #lgbtqia+ #transrights

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I don't post much on this site. So, I literally came here just to post this. You're welcome. 🚗💥🔨⚒️🔨

#predstrogen #lgbtqia+ #transrights #totally real thing that would actually happen #hammers exploding everywhere

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QR #decim8

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Shut up, dog. #decim8

#decim8

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Electronic cigarettes

#electronic cigarettes

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#thug kitchen #water #motherfucker

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Why did Constantinople get the works? A handy chart.

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Dancing robots!

(via TED.com)

#video #ted #robots

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the smog decided to come down and say hi.

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This is why physical album art will always be superior to digital cover art...

The cover of The Cure's Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me; on vinyl this would be this huge, sort of abstract image. In my iTunes, it's just Robert Smith's lips. I went years (well, maybe not years...) in high school before realizing it was Robert Smith's lips.

#digital music #vinyl #mp3 #the cure #cover art

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wheel on my screen #decim8 #digitalart

#decim8 #digitalart

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(via @801PUNX: Just dropped off these captain ...)

#RSL #MLS #soccer #Believe #@KyleBeckerman #Real Salt Lake

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(via Weighthacker These foods will make you more productive and boost your morale)

#food #health #infographic

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Dead Can Dance (Taken with Instagram at Red Butte Garden's Amphitheatre)