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    5 days ago

    That is not what the second tweet said. What it said was: “He just ordered the government to call you <deadname>.”

    Replace <deadname> with the N-word. Does your logic still hold up? If not, why are you OK with one slur, but not another?

    I’m sorry, I’m really trying my best not to add to the collective rage and negativity on this site, but this is deeply disingenuous. The second tweet is the kind of nonsense that edgy hack comedians do when they want to get away with bigoted “jokes”. Wrap the offensive bit in layers of irony and detachment and rhetoricals, to distract from the fact that they are still saying the offensive bit.

    There is currently an ongoing genocide against trans people in the United States. I am begging you to take this seriously, even if you’re going to joke about it. Especially if you’re going to joke about it, because humor is powerful and words have consequences.