Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25951143-20150101110046/@comment-26871067-20160930021717

SuprK1 wrote: I'm trying to participate in the conversation about Alluka, and I'm trying to defend myself. I didn't realize that people would be so offended by my earlier posts, and I was simply trying to participate. Although I do have freedom of belief, and I have a right to my transphobic thoughts. I don't want people to think that I think things that I don't think, and I want to not have a horrible reputation for exercising freedom of belief. Freedom of belief means you have the right to think or say what you believe, and that you have the right to believe it.

If people think you're being an asshole, it has nothing to do with your freedom of expression. It has to do with the content of what you are saying. That is what people are protesting from you.

If you end up with a horrible reputation here, it will not be because you're exercising your rights. It will be because of your beliefs themselves.

Additionally, it seems to me (this could be wrong, but it is the impression I get from your posts) like the reason you didn't think anyone would be offended is because you don't think your beliefs affect anyone. I'm here saying that this is wrong. Your "I don't hate trans people" defense is "love the sinner, hate the sin". It only contributes to the idea of transgender people being wrong and broken, which leads to more violence against trans people. Your opinions and the way you express them matter. They hurt people. I hope you can understand that.

For the record, to anyone who is silently following along and getting annoyed that things keep getting off topic, here is what is happening:

Someone comes in with the beginning of their post talking about transphobia, and I engage in order to inform. For Rez, I talked at length about their argument re: Alluka, but they choose to continuously ignore those matters in favor of discussing transphobia. For SuprK1, they made no clear stance on whether or not they believed Alluka to be a transgender girl, simply that they believe the Zoldycks (minus Killua+Alluka)' opinions on Alluka's gender/pronouns should be discarded. In the absence of a clear stance, all that could be engaged was the matter of transphobia.

At any point, either of them could have left upon considering themselves to be at a dead end. I could have as well, but all I'm doing is responding to other comments - rebuking presented ideas.

That's why things keep getting derailed from the topic at hand - because people open their comments with something about transphobia, and they drop any other discussion in favor of it.