Rex Kerr
2 min readDec 8, 2021

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I don't understand your responses at all. The question at hand is whether you are minimizing what appear to be serious concerns. The article is freely available to anyone who cares to look, so anyone can check up on whether you're accurate. And you're still attempting to misrepresent things!!

"Jostled" isn't the only word or phrase used in the article: "screamed at", "throwing things at me", "shouting threats" (4th paragraph); "assaulted" (6th paragraph, about a different incident).

I don't support the use of the word Taliban at all to describe even hostile, potentially violent demonstrations and other activity--it's a mean-spirited exaggeration even of the worst charges in the article (which are, themselves, somewhat exaggerated as stated). But I do question the empathy of someone who would take only that from the whole article. And I don't think you're correct that the term is meant to cover the entire trans community, only those people jostling, screaming, throwing, shouting, assaulting, and intimidating.

In the article, the author says: "Today, the job of making our lives a misery has been taken over by some trans-activists, aided and abetted by their bearded ‘allies’." (Emphasis mine.)

Why include the qualifier if the epithet was intended to cover everyone?

Why use an example with so many charges of aggression and intimidation towards the author if you want a clear example of the kind of bigotry you are complaining about? Surely if the bigotry is as bad as you suggest, there will be plenty of far clearer examples to choose from. Unless you simply don't even see other people's claims any more?

Something seems seriously amiss with your perspective.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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