I see overt racism and sexism posted here frequently.
replyIt's usually couched in sophisticated-sounding faux-intellectual language, though, which is the key to posting whatever you want here. You can say literally anything on HN, so long as you camouflage it with SV techbro vernacular.
I don't even know what your thresholds are. They could be very low, like misgendering something and you see it as sexism - or simply refusing to call someone "they". For all I know you could be one of those people who stand up and call that sexism or transmisogyny.
replyI'm talking bog-standard "brown people are bad"/"women are dumb"-type of stuff. It's not every day but it's discouragingly common.
replyMisgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny.
replyI'm simply not going to call someone "they", and I consider myself a pretty liberal person.
replyThis means your threshold is fairly low.
You're allowed to have those opinions, of course. We can talk about other things.
You may consider yourself that, but given that you won’t even offer someone the pleasure of addressing them the way they want to be, you aren’t.
reply> Misgendering someone or refusing to recognize their gender identity is sexism and transmisogyny.
replyIt must be some "ist" of you to assume it isn't transmisandry instead.
(And not sure that anything related to gender identity specifically divorced from sex is "sexism.")
You can be as snarky and dismissive about it as you want, it is what it is.
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