re: Mass casualty shooting in Minneapolis at a church school 20 victims

How did this person get radicalized to the point of targeting young Catholic kids? What were they so immersed with that they thought this was a good thing to do?

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People lunging after identify politics the day children are killed are not better than people lunging for guns.

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false equivalence.

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But a group of kids was targeted for their religion. frick you, Binger, for excusing it!

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This

We know. Parents everywhere know.

Motivation was ideological. The shooter even has it in plain text at how angry they are at this country. It’s happened before.

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a group didn’t shoot kids today.

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You and your fellow cross-dressers are the most violent group of mentally damaged psychopaths amongst the population. Y’all are also cowards who target children. Y’all should either be involuntarily confined to an institution or put against the wall for eradication

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3) Your “bearded guy” argument is stupid. In reality, you can scientifically determine biological sex through chromosomes, and/or hormone markers. [/b] And socially, almost everyone (that’s not a fricking weirdo) would categorize this imaginary person as male — whether or not it aligns with this whatever’s self-identity. So, pretending “no one alive can do so” is just more of your dramatic bullshite.

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You are 100% correct as any person who is not ignorant or willfully ignorant or just stupid knows. Science can indeed identify biological sex, it is an undeniable fact...and with the exception of very rare examples there are 2 biological sexes and almost every human being who ever lived, lives now or will live in the future is biologically one or the other. This is a fact which cannot be denied despite there being people who do indeed deny this fact...they are simply wrong. There are also people whop deny that the earth is not flat.

You are also 100% that SOCIALLY, the word you used, almost everyone would identify the mythical bearded person I used as an example as a man and even a biological male based on the social expectations most of us share about what that means. The issue arises when the individual in question does not identify themselves as a man or a biological male. Fortunately for most people this is never an issue, most of us never consider our gender identity...we are what other see us as. For some people this is not the case. Given the small portion of humanity who experiences this it is indeed, by definition, strange, weird, out of the ordinary, whatever term, because it is outside of what is normal. There is a lot of shite that is weird...folks are different, some very different. Different isn't inherently wrong, its simply different.

You are off the mark as far a gender and sex being synonymous. This has somewhat been the case since sometime in the mid 15th century yet English dictionaries then and now made clear distinctions that the terms were not interchangable given that sex is a biological fact while gender is based on social expectations. The English versions of the 2 terms have been in use since the 5th century and for about 1000 years were not considered synonymous and the Latin versions of both predate that usage by about 2000 years so for at least 3500 years of human usage of the terms in any manner they have only been loosely related for about 500 or about 14% of the time they have existed. Historically the terms were not synonymous and they are not consider synonymous today by lexicographers.

Finally gaslighting. A pattern of misunderstanding terms emerges. Generally gaslighting is defined as " a form of psychological abuse or manipulation in which the abuser attempts to sow self-doubt and confusion in their victim’s mind. Typically, gaslighters are seeking to gain power and control over the other person, by [b]distorting reality and forcing them to question their own judgment and intuition". Stating a fact which is verifiable by anyone interested in verifying it is not "distorting reality". If someone tells you 2 plus 2 is 4 they are not gaslighting you, they are merely pointing out a fact. If you believed or thought 2 plus 2 was 5 you were simply wrong. When I wrote that sex and gender are not synonymous I did so because they are not and the data is abundantly clear that they are not....just like 2 plus 2 is 4. An individual can have an opinion, we all do, and they can vary from person to person. We can't have our own facts however. 2 plus 2 is 4 every day of the week and twice on Sunday, as they say. If a person chooses to thing 2 plus 2 is 5 that is a decision the person is making, one which ignores a blatantly obvious and well known fact. If someone tells that person they are wrong they aren't trying to manipulate their perception or judgement, they are merely pointing out they are objectively wrong.

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Trans people are by nature hateful extremists.

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Some (not all) of the LGBTQ+ people I know are pretty hateful or are perceived as hateful. As in seemingly intolerant of any alternative world view. If you aren’t with them at that moment you are against them kind of thing.

Part of it is because they are marginalized and don’t give a shite about being nice back to anyone. They are hyper tribal because their tribe is the only one that accepts them. It’s a chip on their shoulder that causes them to behave in a way that breaks the trust of people around them, which frustrates them and causes them to perpetuate their behavior. It’s fair to show empathy to these people and they usually will recognize and appreciate that.

Unfortunately for part of this group it is not a chip. It’s pure radicalization from within that community whose highly successful movement has largely been hijacked by increasingly extreme political movements that aren’t even related to LGBTQ+ issues. Nothing a normal person can do is enough. No amount of decency or kindness from a Christian is enough. They will hate you.

Unfortunately you can’t tell if that person you work with or lives in the apartment next to you is the radical lunatic or just acts like an a-hole because of some chip on their shoulder.

Congrats, AwgustaDog! You just wrote another 2,000 word essay to circle back and basically agree with me.

Science determines sex, dictionaries did list sex and gender as synonyms, and your “unknowable = undefined” dodge is still gaslighting no matter how much bad math homework you sprinkle in.

I’ll admit for an old guy, you’ve got stamina. You don’t argue, you filibuster — drowning threads in essays nobody reads. Here’s a tip: Brevity…. it’s the difference between making a point and being background noise.

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AwgustaDawg

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