here’s a concrete example. in my local activist group, someone posted info about a pro palestine protest but couldn’t verify what group had organized it. someone in the group went on a rant about how “the zionists” had probably created it to trick protestors into going to a fake protest for some nefarious reason. when i bluntly asked who he meant by “the zionists” he couldn’t say. he had no idea who he meant. he was just using “the zionists” to mean “some nefarious group trying to trick us.” this same activist group eventually became so antisemitic that i had to leave because they over and over again refused to ask themselves these questions and ended up diving headfirst into straight up nazi conspiracy theories and horrific antisemitic rhetoric like “the zionists [again, couldn’t define “zionists”] wanted the holocaust to happen”

This man had the audacity to come back at the end of the day as I was closing up by the fucking way. Ranting and raving about how he had been mistreated and that no one had even bothered to reply to his complaint email all day

Well I had the UNBRIDLED joy of informing him that not only had I seen his email, which was insanely abusive towards me for the crime of being 1 minute late and not putting up with his shit first thing in the morning, but that I was also the manager who he demanded to speak to, and I’d now also had our IT team block his IP address from being able to contact us or order with us ever again.

I should’ve been allowed to castrate the man but this will have to do

Okay this got way more notes than I was expecting so I feel like I should add some important context here. I’m not management. I’m not even middle management I’m just some guy that works here. I don’t have the authority to do any of this I just like lying to customers

Every time I hear someone say something like this I remember that one exerpt from that one book in which the author considers Gomez Addams as a trans man specifically because he has the energy of a guy who wakes up every day absolutely over the moon to discover that he gets to be a man with a family and a moustache and a wife who's taller than god yet again, and it becomes painfully apparent that people who say these things don't understand transness at all.

EDIT: I found it! Here it is!

An excerpt from the essay “Powerful T4T Energy in Steve Martin’s The Jerk” by Daniel M. Lavery, from his book Something That May Shock and Discredit You.

Absolutely amazing addition I love this and personally I can't wait to be proudly trans for the rest of my life!

Though rock auras are rare, rock magic is common. The most common form of rock magic is Concussion.

Why do these all feel like footnotes from a Discworld novel?

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