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Not sure I derailed anything. Tallied the comments. Mine and the responses to it are about 43 in total. But there are 353 (at the time of writing this) comments on this post. So 310 comments unrelated to my comment. I suspect, then, that no derailment actually occurred. Rather, a bunch of discussions are happening simultaneously, and language and its implications are one of those conversations.

Also, I'm not a TLA, I'm a human benig.

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Let's be honest here, we both know what you were doing. I'm surprised the mods tolerate this type of virtue signaling and inflammatory behavior. You're clearly trying to bait the person you're responding to.

And you're not even doing it correctly. Gendered pronouns in general shouldn't be used. Please use "Xir" or "Zhe" when referring to a group of individuals whose sex may be female, but whose gender identity is unknown.

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