Plan Would Let Transgender People Serve Openly in Military

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11 points·joshrotenberg··3 comments

I'm pretty shocked by the comments. I was expecting that the majority would be in favor of such an obvious move.

Yet, I had to scroll 3 pages till I found a positive comment. It's sad to think that officials from the Pentagon are more forward-thinkers than the readers of the NYT.

"Positive comment" - one that aligns with your opinion? Why not adjust your mental model to reality? Where would common americans express their true opinion if not anonymously in the internet? Sometimes even a slight disagreement with the official agenda might lead to problems with career nowadays.

You're right; I shouldn't have said positive. That was my own bias, expecting "the truth" to align with my mental model of the world, which is the same critic I was making against the commenters. I take it back.

The word I should have used is intelligent comments.

The amount of vitriol and ignorance is what repulsed me. From people comparing transgenders to be mentally ill, to others saying that "terrorists will sit back and watch America defeat itself". Reddit/YouTube-level. Very few were able to intelligently argue why they were against accepting transgenders in the military - despite having thousands already in the ranks.

But hey, I should have known better; don't ever read the comments. Not even on NYT.

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