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Nah, what I've said stands, this is fundamentally about the right to have your own identity be respected, and how queer folks have had to fight tooth and nail just to even get so much as singular they/them accepted in the anglosphere.

There is literally no good reason for there to be a fight about this. You can learn new pronunciation, you can ask for reminders, you can do whatever, but everyone coming at me about "but da X is dum do!" is siding with "but I don't waaaaaaaaaaana!" at the most benign, and "if I see someone using that X I'll burn them alive myself!" at the far end, and yes I have personally seen that sentiment expressed, and not even in the present age of reddit collapse, this was shit from before the pandemic.

Just because society moved on to different means of communication doesn't mean we don't have lessons to learn from why we had to move on and what highly toxic cultural forces were behind pushing that move, lest we have this conversation about why the e was bad and stupid and dumb 10 years from now.

Not to mention the wildly patronizing reflex of some D&I folks to try and say "actually bigotry can be ok if it's the 'global south'™ because being disgusted by bigotry even when 'the good people'™ do it is colonialism or something."

As if those values aren't literally a direct product of missionary colonialism.