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   evacide (evacide@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 09:19:29 JST evacide

   "Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 09:19:28 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @evacide I think transphobes hate that term because it is clever and Latin and it makes them feel dumb

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 09:57:32 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Jay 🗳️

     @jsit ohhhhhhhhh

     I hadn't thought of that!

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     Jay 🗳️ (jsit@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 09:57:33 JST Jay 🗳️

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan There’s this ridiculous myth that it comes from the word “sissy” — which, even if it did, wouldn’t make it a “slur,” of course.

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     Ant Newman (antiphase@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 05:42:11 JST Ant Newman

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan Both Latin and Greek if I'm not mistaken