China did what? From everything I’ve seen and read, de-radicalization is a pretty generous way of putting it but feel free to educate me.

I seem to remember that they only did after backlash to originally refusing to do so but I wasn’t following it super closely. That’s why I prefaced it with “IIRC”.

IIRC a lot of hate comes from their refusal to blacklist kiwifarms after they bullied several people to suicide.

Wait what? That is some insane lore. Was it sent from fediverse chick accounts??

If that was true, that trend wouldn’t exist in the first place. At least one person had to legitimately hate or at least exaggerate disliking the word for that idea to spread, so it stands to reason that more than one person organically disliked the word independently. That’s not even considering outliers like folks with synesthesia who may perceive the way the word sounds much differently than most do.

You do realize that phobias are inherently irrational right? There’s no appeal to it. It just is.

Thank you, I just started new medicine right after I posted that and the brain fog is making it a struggle to find stuff.

He advocated for the eradication of trans people and the party he worked for is literally ethnically cleansing the US. Yes, we are calling Nazis Nazis.

He wanted to eradicate transgender people from society and actively worked with the party currently performing an ethnic cleansing of the US. I’d say these are Nazi dogwishtles but honestly it’s pretty fucking mask off. One does not need to heil Hitler to be one.