• Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      I’ve heard this from conservatives verbatim. When you point out how intersex and trans people are both more common than redheads, they just dismiss it as “Well that’s still a tiny number of people.”

      Or in other words “My argument makes sense if you just ignore all the things that prove it wrong.”

      • “My argument makes sense if you just ignore all the things that prove it wrong.”

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        “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words…”