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[-] context@hexbear.net 62 points 11 months ago

geordi-no white supremacist wine mom book-banning club

geordi-yes punching nazis

[-] LaGG_3@hexbear.net 47 points 11 months ago

He also played Kunta Kinte in Roots. LeVar Burton has a pretty cool acting career.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 46 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Violence against fascists is always justified and based.

cw: accidental transphobia/badly phrased. My thought process is explained below. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it the way it sounds. Leaving for context.

spoilerHiding your fascism behind "think of the children" and the bits you were born with is cowardly, even for fascists.

[-] emelia@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

bits you were born with

What do you mean?

[-] axont@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

Pretty sure they mean the bioessentialist rhetoric of gender comes from genitals at birth. It's an absurd claim that transphobes hide behind.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

I absolutely agree with you. I phrased myself badly. Women solely being people with vaginas is her view, that's why I said it that way. She boils being a woman down to what you were born with, so when she employs "women" that's what she means. I was (still am) very tired. I'm sorry. Trans women are women, genitals do not determine what you are.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago

I should have said it differently. I obviously understand that genitals do not equal gender. I'm rather tired today, and was thinking of it as like, she thinks women are people with vaginas, so when she says women(/in the case also mothers), she's just hiding behind her genitals. I hope I explained that okay.

I'm sorry if I upset or bothered you.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 11 months ago

Not the people you replied to, but it totally makes sense in context what you meant

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you, I've been worrying about it more than I should.

[-] emelia@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Sorry to hear that, I didn't want to discomfort you!
It's nice to have a space where transphobic comments have no place, and I didn't want to assume bad intentions. Maybe I'm overly afraid of rhetoric like that sneaking in as jokes, as it happened often on the internet.

[-] BountifulEggnog@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

It's okay, your comment was fine. I just worry about things. I don't think you are overly afraid of that at all, it's scary out there for trans people and I wouldn't want that coming here.

[-] emelia@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

Thank you for taking the time to explain what you meant. No worries :)

[-] axont@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

If LeVar Burton thinks you're trash then you should probably re-evaluate who you are. He's cool as hell and I met him at my school once! He was handing out books to kids because he really does take child literacy seriously because he's cool as hell

[-] Tachanka@hexbear.net 14 points 11 months ago

Just take a look,

it's in a book

a reading rainbooooooooooooooooooow

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I think he also raises a lot of money for AIDS research too.

[-] Freeanotherday@hexbear.net 22 points 11 months ago
[-] Ocommie63@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Those crakkers be hitting that copium

[-] kristina@hexbear.net 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago
[-] Abracadaniel@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago

Someone got me a shirt that says "Levar Burton says read banned books" and it's beautiful.

[-] terrytec@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago

I wish I was LeVar Burton

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago

Liberty? I don't think that means whatever THEY think it means. It certainly does not mean or imply safety.

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