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Right vs Courtesy
Mar. 10th, 2025 09:23 amA thing I've said before and said again whenever I encounter this happening amongst online leftists.
1) Every marginalized group contains some terrible people, and even more people who are just flat out kind of irritating. Oh, and every marginalized group also contains a significant number of individuals who are someone's 'narc ex' or a flat out violent abuser. No group is immune from being just utterly horrible.
2) These people still get to not have their identity used against them. So, Caitlin Jenner may be annoying, but dead naming her is shitty. Kemi Badenoch is a terrible person, but sexist and racist insults are still not OK. Gal Gadot may have problematic views, but insisting on using the European sounding surname that her parents Hebraized before she was born in order to make sly insinuations is (IMO) kind of anti-Semitic. Especially when she's actually the seventh generation of her family born in Israel. It's a bit like slagging off Prince Charles for being German, and kind of becomes just obnoxiously anti-immigration at some point.
3) If you think a 'right' is only applicable if someone is a nice person, then it's not a right. It's just a courtesy.
Thank you for letting me share my ongoing vexation on a Monday morning. I'll go back to talking about LRP and cats soon.
1) Every marginalized group contains some terrible people, and even more people who are just flat out kind of irritating. Oh, and every marginalized group also contains a significant number of individuals who are someone's 'narc ex' or a flat out violent abuser. No group is immune from being just utterly horrible.
2) These people still get to not have their identity used against them. So, Caitlin Jenner may be annoying, but dead naming her is shitty. Kemi Badenoch is a terrible person, but sexist and racist insults are still not OK. Gal Gadot may have problematic views, but insisting on using the European sounding surname that her parents Hebraized before she was born in order to make sly insinuations is (IMO) kind of anti-Semitic. Especially when she's actually the seventh generation of her family born in Israel. It's a bit like slagging off Prince Charles for being German, and kind of becomes just obnoxiously anti-immigration at some point.
3) If you think a 'right' is only applicable if someone is a nice person, then it's not a right. It's just a courtesy.
Thank you for letting me share my ongoing vexation on a Monday morning. I'll go back to talking about LRP and cats soon.
