are you admitting to trolling a topic thats about trans violenceHe admitted to it when he opened with trying to equate self-defense to targeted violence.
But until that happens trans people arming themselves and learning how to defend themselves is the safe thing to do."You should do nothing until the perfect solution comes to fruition some time in the future" is a go-to for people trying to shut down or otherwise obfuscate a conversation.
I had three armed men break into my house and had to defend myself with a firearm in order to protect myself and my daughter. My mom was also an "illegal inmigrant" who fled into America (overseas) to escape oppression and I was born homeless and grew up without a home.
I can talk to you about privledge.
Especially when your implication that moving is an option when not everyone has the ability and means to do so. So check your privledge at the door and come back when you have had to use a firearm to save your life.
I challenged your claim that "feeling like you have to fight back" is "shit behavior." And equating like people "feel" like they have to fight back as if that's "not reality."
Your language is that people don't really need to fight back at all. They are just made to feel that way. There is literally legislation and encouragement here in america to remove certain people from society. People spouting nazi rhetoric and genocidal ideation.
You don't get to claim that fighting back is "shitty behavior" or imply the threat "isn't real." While you also say "defending oneself" is "an solution" as if there's better ones. Not everyone has the luxury to up and move.
Do you speak for everyone in this scenario? I didn't realize thatshut the fuck up.
My Youtube Shorts recommendations are full of like Key & Peele and Always Sunny clips and shit but every once in awhile it randomly throws this female guntuber at me and her entire existence appears to be making videos where she's like "If you try to take my guns from me I'm gonna take his impractical sexy instagram stance and shoot you" and I keep telling it to remove those videos but they keep appearing anyway
"This is what you would do."Textbook rhetoric
"Except we wouldn't."
"But do you speak for everybody?" - somebody who just made claims for everybody
Strangely for someone who doesn't give a fuck about politics it seems so very odd that they made a broad claim of other's political beliefs.
Why are you pushing this narrative I want to kill people?? What is wrong with you?The funniest thing is, that narrative is still very much allowing the people who want to harm others for existing to still have power over their lives. Those narratives do not exist to help the people being targeted, they exist to tell the targeted people that it is easier to just let the people who hate them get their way.
The funniest thing is, that narrative is still very much allowing the people who want to harm others for existing to still have power over their lives. Those narratives do not exist to help the people being targeted, they exist to tell the targeted people that it is easier to just let the people who hate them get their way.Yeah, it's fucking vile.
Yeah, it's fucking vile.
User is currently not an active member. Hmm, I wonder whythat was basically an account SD. Why do people do that knowing it will get them banned?
that was basically an account SD. Why do people do that knowing it will get them banned?They seemed to want others to be punished, and when it wasnt working, started to spiral out of control. I kind of get that mentality, but I usually take a step back and just block some people instead.
Everyone's a pacifist as soon as minorities say they want to protect themselves for people literally trying to kill them.
Or in @Gladius_ case, when a woman tries to protect herself and her daughter instead of quietly moving somewhere else.
No. We can talk about yours given that you're the one making sweeping generalizations here and are the one insinuating people have options without being in their shoes and knowing what options do and don't exist for them. That's privilege. I'm not the one claiming you were in a position to do something else and using my experiences to justify that assessment.
No, I was distraught and I was glad nobody died but what an awful question to even ask. I'd make the argument that even asking such a question is sick.
Irrelevant, my point is that people don't always have options when violence comes knocking at their door. I'm not trans for the record and would never speak for someone who is because it isn't my place. I can, however, defend people's right to protect themselves especially when sometimes there is no other alternatives.
I'm not putting you in a box or dismissing you. I think it's disgusting that you are denying some people's real world experiences with arm chair philosophy about how "There are always other options.
The alternative was what? Speak to one of the guys who said "go in the back and make sure no one wakes up"? Pray that they just wanted to make sure we are sleeping and maybe sing us a nice lullaby? Go out the window and risk my daughter screaming and panicking? What would you propose I do in your magical fairyland?
Why are you pushing this narrative I want to kill people?? What is wrong with you?
Weird, no one came after me. Also I am an amateur kickboxer, my husband practices and teaches MMA and HEMA. I know what "pros" think.
I handled you just fine. Your points have been drivel. Philosophy mixed with magical thinking. While you make assumptions. You claim you are :"Replying to every point" you aren't. You're trying to attack me. Implying that I want to kill, and want to commit murder, asking me if it feels good to kill people, that's not debating. You even guessed at me being trans. Your agenda is immediately transparent.
The funniest thing is, that narrative is still very much allowing the people who want to harm others for existing to still have power over their lives. Those narratives do not exist to help the people being targeted, they exist to tell the targeted people that it is easier to just let the people who hate them get their way.
Everyone's a pacifist as soon as minorities say they want to protect themselves for people literally trying to kill them.
It really shouldn't come down to violence. But there isn't much left for alternatives, if there was any. So yeah, you have to do what you must to protect yourself from all the phobes out there.
Me personally, I'd rather be in an area where it wouldn't be an issue, as I'm sure many others would like that as well. Sadly we don't have that much of a luxury to do so, because of all the evil there is out there. So we must fight back just to survive.
You know, one of the big fears I have, especially with right-wingers being so bold and brazen with their hatred, is pretty much how X-Men 97 Episode 5 went. You know what I'm talking about. Mind you I had this fear well before seeing that episode, but seeing that really hit close to home. I'd be afraid something like that could happen.
No. Why, did you try and mark her for calling disgusting people disgusting?Original post is gone but I'll just add, I've literally seen AceMos get purg'd for a typo that likely happened due to her disability, with the mod team point blank refusing to accept it was a mistake even when shown evidence that it's extremely unlikely she'd post what she was being accused of.
hurting people, even if you dont kill them haunts you for years, I have never killed a person but even the ones I hurt I feel bad about a decade later, I cant even beging to imagine how guilt might sting and hauunt youi if you killoed a person, even if they were trying to kill you and I woudl rather people never experienced that
Sure, but I imagine that getting mugged/assaulted/etc. would haunt you for years as wellor they might just kill you. This topic is literally about people joking about shooting trans people.
or they might just kill you. This topic is literally about people joking about shooting trans people.
That dudes no violence is acceptable mindset is absolutely not gonna keep trans people safe if theyre attacked by people who hate them for their existence.
Is homeslice back to screech about how self-defense is the same as targeted hate again? Along with some good old "everybody is a violent gun nut."It's so absurd, especially the notion that anyone being attacked has some sort of obligation to their attacker to not end the attack by any means necessary. It's fucking childish and quite frankly it can get you or someone you care about hurt or killed.
And no, I, and I imagine everybody else, don't imagine you're out to get some minority. I know your "advice" of "self-defense is bad" does nothing to help the people that are targeted.
You need to check your privilege at the door because it's seriously gotten to your head. I can absolutely say you have privilege and again I can do it rather easily. You literally think that there's always another option than defending oneself because you have never been in a position with your back against the wall where you had no other recourse. You admitted it yourself. So check it.
You had over a day to respond and you do so with a typo riddled post showing how angry you typed this. I too believe most people want peace. I do as well. Doesn't change that sometimes people leave you with no choice but to use violence in order to protect yourself and the people you love and just because you are forced to use violence doesn't mean it must come from a place of hatred and malice. As I didn't hate the people, even as I pulled the trigger, and I hate the circumstances that lead to them believing that following the actions they took was a necessary part of their life.
Police response times on average are what, again? Do you think the police could have gotten to my house before those armed robbers got in the back where my daughter was sleeping?
I think it depends on the situation. In mine, I had no other choice, but to hope that they chose not to kill us.
Asking me further details is still wrong, btw. I called the cops after they had left my house. If you must know I ran straight to the back, closed the door, locked it, threw up the blinds, grabbed my daughter, and moved to a corner of the room that was not visible and we could not be shot at through the window and was away from the door but had a clear view to it. I called 911 and didn't move until the police arrived.
There is none. You are asking me to prove a negative. I said, I had no other recourse. You're the one saying there's "Always other options." Why are you asking me to provide an alternative when none were present? The burden of proof is on you. You made the claim. You implied there were other choices.
Who said I'd rather do otherwise? I'm saying in this instance there wasn't any way to disengage. I literally had no choice. I challenged you to come up with a different solution I could have done at that time in your magical fairyland. The fact that you are challenging me on this while typing angrily and then asked ME to come up with an alternative tells me you have none. So...
You had no right to ask that of me.
I made a response in this very thread literally about that. I said, in this same thread, that people should have the right to defend themselves until the day comes when we can reasonably disarm everyone and the threat of gun related violence is no longer something people need to fear. That day is not today and I don't think that day is anytime soon. You can't do a blanket gun ban. Control needs to be implemented incrementally because we have too many politicians that are willing to fight tooth and nail to keep the 2nd amendment and if anything disarm those most vulnerable.
You do what you can? Running is always the first option in any confrontation. Not everyone has the luxury to run. Then you do what you can. IF you can't run, you try your best to survive. If that means shoot, claw, bite, whatever. You do it.
I agree but here in america that's not the case and won't be the case anytime soon. So until then I will always advocate that people who are threatened and vulnerable to take up arms to protect themselves. Right now gun legislation is what it is. There are very dangerous armed groups. The government is not on our side. So what can we (the vulnerable) do? Protect ourselves and be prepared. Hopefully no one has to ever defend themselves.
I don't know anything about you other than you asking me very uncomfortable things and pushing me in very uncomfortable ways. The fact you didn't have the good sense to just walk away from the last post and do this isn't giving me a good impression of you. You also don't get to tell me what to say.
I am a firm believer people can change but I'd do anything to protect my daughter. I'd suffer for her, I'd die for her, there's no power on this earth that could get in the way between me and her. She means everything to me and the only person who comes close to my daughter is my brothers, husband, mother, and father.
You need to calm down and back off.
Well, you see, because I say you have privilage then please check it before making other people check theirs, look within your own lawn before checkiong the neighbors.Note: the post does not get better from here.
I'm IDGAF about politics
that was basically an account SD. Why do people do that knowing it will get them banned?
Suggesting anyone get out as a solution is a privileged argument btw. Not everyone can leave. You think a person who is disabled, can't drive, is living on welfare, and doesn't have a passport or friends can "Get out" to "Avoid legislation"? Pray tell how they can go about doing that. Note said person may not even have the means to walk or be even terrified of leaving their house or crippled by various other physical or psychological ailments?Bingo. But "just move" is always the go to of people who totally care about a problem. State bans abortion? Just move. Targeted by your local or federal government? Just move. Hateful rhetoric leading to people harassing/assaulting you? Just move. If you can't actually move? Suck it up.
You also provided me your own scenario of what you'd do in mine and your only difference was to call out that you have a gun (which adds to the risk) and "shoot back in a way to not harm anyone."I'm extremely hopeful that person doesn't own a firearm.