As a side note it always bugs me that the original text of the meme is kind of just weirdly defending racism?

Like clearly in this universe sea lions and maybe even all sea animals are sentient and can speak. The “victim” does a hate crime by saying they could do without that entire race. So yes, sealion bro should not be intruding into this couple’s personal life, but besides that I respect him for trying to do something to change this clearly bigoted man’s behavior and perspective, and it’s noble sealion lad didn’t just punch (slap?) the probably nazi mf in the face the moment he heard his entire community get dissed and told it would be better not existing.

And then in the last panel the man uses the sea lion trying to defend his ethnic community to justify further bigotry!

Anyway. I realize I have invested myself in the race relations of a fictional world. Just be kind on the internet yall.

this person explained it https://lemmy.cafe/post/5932507/6475215 :)

Everybody loves hanging out with the weirdos until they actually start acting weird.

So perfectly worded and I feel this so hard. I was nervous to post this as I was sure I was just gonna get hate for it but glad others are finding catharsis in the sentiment getting out there :)

Truly!

FWIW here is a study, including its methodology in detail.

yea….

way too political

i certainly didn’t the first time i got hit with it! and i felt so bad that they felt i was trying to mess with them :( and then they read each apology as further disingenuous snark and it’s all too late to recover

and if you happen to be one of the true sealions/jaq ppl who made everything online such a miserable mess you can kick rocks 💞💞💞

This is one of the first comments I have seen on lemmy that truly feels like old school reddit. You applied your professional knowledge to that fairly unkind commenter not only to correct them but also to express something many might not know!

Very cool of you keep it up champ :)

ah there’s our miscommunication! i am not arguing anything i just misunderstood at first and offered a possible solution/additional context

but i was wrong so i issued my apologies and asked for clarification :)

you stated there was something that was a problem with the reporting, and i inaccurately surmised that it had to do with trans people experiencing hate. what was it in reality?

i literally don’t know what you are talking about, lol. just asking for clarification because my initial reading was clearly wrong :)

see my edit :)

well i am missing your point i guess, sorry. could you rephrase what you are saying ? im quite lost

ty!

absolutely true but Dolly Parton did not have to face transphobic harassment and violence

very very very important distinction

thank you for the helpful correction i really understand my error now /s

I’m not sure I am perfectly following you but, slightly concerning/missing the point comment?

Important considerations:

• plenty of transphobes are non-evangelical, or even non-religious
• evangelicals having distaste for tattoos and breast implants is incomparable to transphobic hate and its precipitating violence

Correct me if I am misreading you here.

where do you cite this five grade model?

the world health organization is not quite in line with you here (CW, hopefully obvious explicit discussion of mutilation) thanks !

this should hilight to us the outsized effect transphobia has on discourse.

if we were to believe the line that “we’re just concerned about people getting mutilated” we must naturally expect to see that 97% margin of outrage at breast implants, hair implants, weight management surgery etc. for cis folk.

and we don’t. here and there you might hear an evangelical getting upsetti spaghetti avout Ozempic et al but transphobic talking points dominate, in vast disproportion to actual individual cases.

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