The Effect of Ignorance Magnified is Indistinguishable from the Effect of Pure Phobia | ENDAblog
The Effect of Ignorance Magnified is Indistinguishable from the Effect of Pure Phobia
Christopher, I’m not making a blanket declaration of ‘You can’t offer any opinion on trans-whatever or transphobia unless you are trans-something.’
I don’t even know who you are or if you’re trans – and it doesn’t actually matter: I am cautioning you to be very careful about who you become an apologist for. Savage’s use of one trans person’s plight to attempt to justify either an apology or no apology is indeed extortion.
“In a society where understanding of LGBT people is uneven, people have to pay a huge amount of attention to how things may be perceived by people who are not yet supportive of LGBT civil rights,” [Josh] Friedes [of Equal Rights Washington] said. “I think Dan’s comments give license to people making fun of transgender people.”
This entry was posted on Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 1:16 pm and is filed under Action Alerts, WRPGMs.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
The Effect of Ignorance Magnified is Indistinguishable from the Effect of Pure Phobia | ENDAblog
The Effect of Ignorance Magnified is Indistinguishable from the Effect of Pure Phobia
Christopher, I’m not making a blanket declaration of ‘You can’t offer any opinion on trans-whatever or transphobia unless you are trans-something.’
I don’t even know who you are or if you’re trans – and it doesn’t actually matter: I am cautioning you to be very careful about who you become an apologist for. Savage’s use of one trans person’s plight to attempt to justify either an apology or no apol
ogy is indeed extortion.
“In a society where understanding of LGBT people is uneven, people have to pay a huge amount of attention to how things may be perceived by people who are not yet supportive of LGBT civil rights,” [Josh] Friedes [of Equal Rights Washington] said. “I think Dan’s comments give license to people making fun of transgender people.”
This entry was posted on Friday, March 26th, 2010 at 1:16 pm and is filed under Action Alerts, WRPGMs.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.