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Celeb News: Chris Brown Shades Caitlyn Jenner; Kylie Responds
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Originally posted by Callisto.
Ok let's not sit here and pretend people are just welcoming Trans people with opening arms.
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The fact that vile animal like Chris exist and people Stan for it
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Originally posted by SlayingOnTheEarth
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I miss the problem here? Sorry, nobody is obligated to pay for your transition as it is similar to cosmetic surgery and isn't a health related issue.
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Member Since: 6/26/2012
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Originally posted by Callisto.
Ok let's not sit here and pretend people are just welcoming Trans people with opening arms.
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No, but let's not pretend they're being persecuted or discriminated against either. Again, nobody is obligated to accept you and last time I checked, it's illegal to harm trans people (or anyone, for that matter) anyway.
Everything else can be solved through spreading proper awareness on trans people, and NO silencing people for having a different opinion is not helping.
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Member Since: 7/12/2010
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Originally posted by Lexiel
The fact that Caitlyn became the woman she's always been isn't an accomplishment in itself, sure it's a personal accomplishment but not a public one.
It is a MASSIVE accomplishment the way she's doing it though, she's giving a face to a LOT of trans issues which is invaluable in a society where 25% or more of every trans teen is bullied into commiting suicide, or murdered for blatant transphobia. She's being extremlely brave considering how big her name was when she was Bruce. People have seen her life unfold before society's eyes and it's quite an accomplishment for the Trans community to be presented with the opportunity to spread knowledge, positivity and light and that deserves a lot more than a 'pat on the back'.
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Lord... Do you understand how many people go through those things daily? Bullying, assault, discrimination to the point of suicide, etc?.. it's not just trans people that experience these things. Even before Bruce, there are plenty of people that could have gotten this acknowledgement. You can be trans, gay, or even black... But I personally don't think people continuously need a pat on the back for being a human being. It's life.
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Member Since: 4/4/2005
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Originally posted by Superpower
This thread
I'm not sure who's more ignorant, Chris Brown or some of the members here
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They're all about even.
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Member Since: 3/1/2014
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Originally posted by Bulldog
You beat the **** out of my fave.
You should really not be trying to talk about society.
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I don't know why I screamed
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Member Since: 11/27/2010
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Originally posted by dussymob
TF??? This site truly has some incredibly ignorant ****s.
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Did I lie though?
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How did slaves make it to these coastal forts? The historians John Thornton and Linda Heywood of Boston University estimate that 90 percent of those shipped to the New World were enslaved by Africans and then sold to European traders. The sad truth is that without complex business partnerships between African elites and European traders and commercial agents, the slave trade to the New World would have been impossible, at least on the scale it occurred.
Advocates of reparations for the descendants of those slaves generally ignore this untidy problem of the significant role that Africans played in the trade, choosing to believe the romanticized version that our ancestors were all kidnapped unawares by evil white men, like Kunta Kinte was in “Roots.” The truth, however, is much more complex: slavery was a business, highly organized and lucrative for European buyers and African sellers alike.
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Many in the African continent already have acknowledged their role.
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In 1999, for instance, President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin astonished an all-black congregation in Baltimore by falling to his knees and begging African-Americans’ forgiveness for the “shameful” and “abominable” role Africans played in the trade. Other African leaders, including Jerry Rawlings of Ghana, followed Mr. Kerekou’s bold example.
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Keep up. The next time you want to call someone ignorant please get your facts together and present those so I can pick them apart one by one. If we are going to make Caitlyn a proxy race war, then lets at least bring in some facts.
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Who gives a **** about you. You're CHRIS BROWN. Nuff said.
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Originally posted by qweenmiley
Trans people are not being prosecuted worldwide and they have the same rights and protections as everyone else. People are more accepting and open to trans people, they are not forced into segregation, being lynched, treated unfairly by the law, etc. Sure, there are people who are against Trans people but that is mostly a person opinion. To compare them to the treatment of blacks in the 1960s is straight up ignorant and wrong.
People keep on bringing up the suicide rate amongst the Trans community whilst ignoring that Gender Dysphoria is an actual mental condition with despite the obvious symptoms comes with lifelong depression and other issues.
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http://transstudent.org/transvis.pdf educate yourself.
And for y'all continuing to throw a tantrum over Caitlyn Jenner being called a hero when “soldiers are the real heroes,” lemme throw some numbers at you real quick: during the deadliest war in American history (the Civil War), U.S. soldiers had a 1 in 15 chance of dying. currently, trans women have a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered, or 1 in 8 for trans women of color. it is currently MORE DANGEROUS to be a trans woman in the U.S. than it is to have fought in the deadliest war in our history. let that sink in as you sit the **** down.
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Chris, stop. He's so extra. Kylie better tell him!
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It baffles me why people in the public eye tweet stuff like this.
It's absolutely fantastic that Akon is doing that. Post it all you want, but its completely unnecessary to bash someone else in the process. It's not like the people posting this "Akon is doing this but Bruce is getting all the press" thing cared about or were posting about the Akon thing before.
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the Caitlyn part is unnecessary
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That's why he ended up being a big fat flop. Keep it up Chris Brown.
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Originally posted by keerbyriri
http://transstudent.org/transvis.pdf educate yourself.
And for y'all continuing to throw a tantrum over Caitlyn Jenner being called a hero when “soldiers are the real heroes,” lemme throw some numbers at you real quick: during the deadliest war in American history (the Civil War), U.S. soldiers had a 1 in 15 chance of dying. currently, trans women have a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered, or 1 in 8 for trans women of color. it is currently MORE DANGEROUS to be a trans woman in the U.S. than it is to have fought in the deadliest war in our history. let that sink in as you sit the **** down.
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And of course, you offer no proper source except an empty graph with **** that has been debunked over and over.
The “1 in 12” statistic has no primary source. It’s mentioned in several articles, with the HRC as their source. This statistic is no longer available on the HRC website. I can’t find anything other than a few comments saying HRC had gotten that stat from the FBI.
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Originally posted by Adonis
Did I lie though?
Many in the African continent already have acknowledged their role.
Keep up. The next time you want to call someone ignorant please get your facts together and present those so I can pick them apart one by one. If we are going to make Caitlyn a proxy race war, then lets at least bring in some facts.
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This has absolutely nothing to do with anything.
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And then he will post a stupid apologetic tirade...
Chris, please shut the **** up.
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Member Since: 9/1/2013
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honestly from what i know about chris he seems like a really bad person
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