• OBJECTION!@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    “Anti-transphobe!” A meme joking about trans people killing ourselves is “anti-transphobe!”

    Least performative liberal “ally”

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      4 months ago

      Mocking transphobes =/= joking about trans suicide.

      Like I said – it went over your head.

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        Joking about trans suicide = joking about trans suicide. It didn’t go over my head, you just didn’t understand why I objected to it.

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          4 months ago

          Including X in a joke about Y does not make the joke about X.

          You didn’t get it.

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                a·bout

                preposition

                1. on the subject of; concerning.

                This meme is on the subject of and concerning trans suicide, it is, objectively, a joke about trans suicide.

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                  The subject of the joke is transphobes thinly veiling their transphobia.

                  Your logic would say this joke is about Spiderman, which is absurd.

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                    A meme can be about multiple things. If Spiderman was a sensitive topic to vulnerable populations being used as a punchline to score political points, then I would be objecting to including Spiderman like that. But that’s not the case. Instead it’s trans suicide that’s being used insensitively, as a punchline to score political points, which is why I objected to it. Because I don’t consider the topic of trans suicide and appropriate subject matter to joke about, or to include references to in a joke “about” something else.