I wouldn’t say it’s a transphobic slur. He said it to clearly piss off people though.
The ceo sounds like a very secure, happy person with no mental problems.
Also, transgender issues aren’t political. Modern monetary theory can be political. Immigration policies are political. Human rights are not political. I’m not a liberal or anything, just a rational person.
As a rational person, it must have occurred to you that if what you say is true, abortion and gay rights would have stopped being election issues many moons ago.
The reason they haven't is because it works, it gets people to the polls. That's politics. People don't vote for 'rational', 'objective' technocrats who are 'policy wonks'. They will vote for whoever they think will deliver on the pie-in-the-sky promises they agree with.
I thought that statement would make it clear I am in support for all the stuff you mentioned, guess not
Amnesty International and the oppressive governments of Burma, Saudi Arabia, etc. would both find such a sentiment laughably naive.
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It is a slur that carry the transphobic intent of the writer.
In the same way that ethnic slurs are not themselves ethnic and religious slurs are not themselves religious but convey pejorative, derogatory and insulting messages towards the targeted populations.
(yes the politics of the Rocky Horror Picture Show have gotten a bit weird in the last ten-fifteen years)
Human rights are not political. There is not opposing view to human rights, you just give them to people. Every has the right to respect, equality, etc. Thought that would be pretty obvious.
Making this stuff "political" just devalues the message and progress.