• shastaxc@lemm.ee
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    25 days ago

    Trans students are witches now? That’s very insensitive of you.

    EDIT: thanks for editing your post and to make me look stupid. Original post was “Literal witch hunt” so I was pointing out the improper use of the word “literal”. It’s clear that OP understood because he edited it out of his post and followed up saying he meant “figurative”.

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      That is not at all what I intended to say. I mean it is a witch hunt in the figurative sense.

      If you have a suggestion on how I could rephrase my sentence to be more clear, I’d gladly change it.

      Anyways the word “witch” has also been reclaimed by an alternative culture but that’s beside the point.

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          You’re replying to an edited comment and missing the context of the exchange

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            My original comment was “literally a witch hunt”, and after you replied I decided to edit it to say “it’s a witch hunt” to be more clear I’m not saying trans people are witches.

            As said below I’d gladly change it if you provide a reasonable suggestion but please don’t accuse me of editing in bad faith because I’m literally doing it for you.

            And yes all my comments have the edit symbol because I have the bad habit of posting the comment then editing it to write an extra paragraph in the seconds after it was posted lol.

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              I don’t think any reasonable person would assume you were saying trans people are witches. It’s called an analogy. I got the gist of what you were saying. Cruz is trying to imply that “Trans people are a scary boogeyman man that we need to label and ostracize via a public outing“. Yep this sorta sounds like a witch hunt to me too. 🤣