LogFAQs > #973172184

Obviously just my opinion, but he essentially needs the person to outright say "I hate trans people" before he will feel comfortable calling them a transphobe. I get where the sentiment to give people the benefit of the doubt comes from, I truly do. And I probably unreasonably give people that benefit at times, to the point where others will call me naive.

For some things though, I think the principle gets extended too far and an unnecessarily high bar of evidence is created.

And some people just have topics they're more sensitive and have heightened awareness about than others. I can't really take people seriously who deny that people like the founding fathers were racist. They always say "well, we can't judge them by our morals" and I just facepalm. Even I'm the moral lens of that time period, they were still racist! Sure some had great ideas for society that we should still hold important, but that doesn't stop the people from being hypocritical racists.
And I know in the past, Joe has disagreed with me on the above.

So even with actual evidence that someone was racist, he still wanted to add some weird nuanced take to it.
I don't know, it's weird.