#punchingdown — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #punchingdown, aggregated by home.social.
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No country on Earth fully respects workers’ rights, and it’s getting worse
https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/no-country-respects-workers-rights/
Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that war’s offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the world’s working people have seen more attacks on the rights of free speech and assembly…
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No country on Earth fully respects workers’ rights, and it’s getting worse
https://systemicdisorder.wordpress.com/2026/07/08/no-country-respects-workers-rights/
Class warfare continues to be waged incessantly. And that war’s offensives continue to be more intense. In just the past year, the world’s working people have seen more attacks on the rights of free speech and assembly…
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New JerseyMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience
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A quotation from Robert Ingersoll
What is blasphemy? I will give you a definition; I will give you my thought upon this subject. What is real blasphemy?
To live on the unpaid labor of other men — that is blasphemy.
To enslave your fellow-man, to put chains upon his body — that is blasphemy.
To enslave the minds of men, to put manacles upon the brain, padlocks upon the lips — that is blasphemy.
To deny what you believe to be true, to admit to be true what you believe to be a lie — that is blasphemy.
To strike the weak and unprotected, in order that you may gain the applause of the ignorant and superstitious mob — that is blasphemy.
To persecute the intelligent few, at the command of the ignorant many — that is blasphemy.
To forge chains, to build dungeons, for your honest fellow-men — that is blasphemy.
To pollute the souls of children with the dogma of eternal pain — that is blasphemy.
To violate your conscience — that is blasphemy.
The jury that gives an unjust verdict, and the judge who pronounces an unjust sentence, are blasphemers.
The man who bows to public opinion against his better judgment and against his honest conviction, is a blasphemer.Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899) American lawyer, freethinker, orator
Speech (1887-05) to the Jury, Trial of C. B. Reynolds for Blasphemy, Morristown, New JerseyMore about this quote: wist.info/ingersoll-robert-gre…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertingersoll #robertgreeningersoll #blasphemy #censorship #conformity #conscience #corruption #exploitation #hell #hypocrisy #indoctrination #injustice #oppression #persecution #publicopinion #punchingdown #slavery #theocracy #dishonesty #guiltyconscience
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Queen Coke Francis : I Ranked The Cringiest #BenGarrison #Cartoons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVDlEj54TWM
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Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment
A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education
#FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform
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Damning Report Finds That Anti-Immigration Right-Wing Views Correlate Closely With Low Educational Attainment
A major new study has delivered an uncomfortable verdict for right-wing movements in Britain and the United States: hostility to immigration and diversity is most strongly associated not with poverty, but with low levels of education
#FarRight #FarRightExtremism #poverty #xenofobia #education #PunchingDown #TaxTheRich #FuckMAGA #FuckReform
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Plain Mean-Spirited: The Joke On This Novelty T-Shirt Is Punching Down
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CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover
@BobLefridge
I see the bravery in Time punching up.And they're failing too by punching down.
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CW: Unflattering photo of Trump - Time magazine cover
@BobLefridge
I see the bravery in Time punching up.And they're failing too by punching down.
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" In 2025, politically incorrect #comedy is not the kind of speech that’s being suppressed; no comedian is in danger of going to jail—or even taken off Netflix—for racist or homophobic material. Suggesting that Charlie Kirk’s killer voted for Trump? That’s another story."
https://thebaffler.com/latest/whos-laughing-now-wilson
#USpol #USmedia #TonyHinchcliffe #KillTony #arts #humorists #standupComedy #punchingDown #wokebashing #chasseAuxWokes #droitisation -
Good Work, Donnie
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We might have understood and admired in him protest in the name of legality and liberty, proud opposition, legitimate but perilous resistance to the all-powerful Napoleon. But what pleases us in the treatment of those on their way up is less pleasing in the treatment of those on their way down. We approve of fighting only so long as there is danger, and in any case only those who fought in the first instance have the right to be exterminators at the last. He who has not been a persistent opponent in times of prosperity should remain silent when the downfall comes. Challenging success gives the only legitimacy to prosecuting failure.
[Nous eussions compris et admiré la protestation au nom du droit et de la liberté, l’opposition fière, la résistance périlleuse et juste à Napoléon tout-puissant. Mais ce qui nous plaît vis-à-vis de ceux qui montent nous plaît moins vis-à-vis de ceux qui tombent. Nous n’aimons le combat que tant qu’il y a du danger ; et, dans tous les cas, les combattants de la première heure ont seuls le droit d’être les exterminateurs de la dernière. Qui n’a pas été accusateur opiniâtre pendant la prospérité doit se taire devant l’écroulement. Le dénonciateur du succès est le seul légitime justicier de la chute.]Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 1 “Fantine,” Book 1 “An Upright Man,” ch. 11 (1.1.11) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/78713/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #lesmiz #bandwagon #challenge #danger #opposition #power #protest #punchingdown #punchingup #risk #risktaking #truthtopower #stakes
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Seems at least one of them is aiming for a #SkyAfterDark position and demonstrating their #PunchingDown ability.
And the other is at least ok being credited on the article.
"forced"
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Seems at least one of them is aiming for a #SkyAfterDark position and demonstrating their #PunchingDown ability.
And the other is at least ok being credited on the article.
"forced"
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My weekly #comic begs the question, "how do you want to be remembered?"
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Jesse Welles - The Poor
if you worked a little harder...
#JesseWelles #ThePoor #Folk #Music #Poverty #ClassWar #OpulentClass #PunchingDown #Media #Gaslighting #VictimShaming #DeathPanels #Homelessness #Starvation #Austerity #Exclusion
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Jesse Welles - The Poor
if you worked a little harder...
#JesseWelles #ThePoor #Folk #Music #Poverty #ClassWar #OpulentClass #PunchingDown #Media #Gaslighting #VictimShaming #DeathPanels #Homelessness #Starvation #Austerity #Exclusion
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When “#Edgy” #Jokes Turn #Harmful
Some top #comedians #weaponize #trans lives for easy punchlines.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Comedy #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.transvitae.com/when-edgy-jokes-turn-harmful-trans-lives-as-the-punchline/
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When “#Edgy” #Jokes Turn #Harmful
Some top #comedians #weaponize #trans lives for easy punchlines.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Comedy #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.transvitae.com/when-edgy-jokes-turn-harmful-trans-lives-as-the-punchline/
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@tsarnick
Marc Andreessen says some remote workers are using mouse wigglers to pretend to work and #DOGE's crackdown on working from home could lead to a 50% reduction in the federal workforce
(So #federal workers r 'slaves' too now 🤔 #PunchingDown billionaires 💸)
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@tsarnick
Marc Andreessen says some remote workers are using mouse wigglers to pretend to work and #DOGE's crackdown on working from home could lead to a 50% reduction in the federal workforce
(So #federal workers r 'slaves' too now 🤔 #PunchingDown billionaires 💸)
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Word of the Day: PENURIOUS Pt.2 (A Deeper Dive)
Sunn m'Cheaux
#SunnmCheaux, #Linguistics, #Critique, #ClassPolicing, #PunchingDown
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Word of the Day: PENURIOUS Pt.2 (A Deeper Dive)
Sunn m'Cheaux
#SunnmCheaux, #Linguistics, #Critique, #ClassPolicing, #PunchingDown
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'#Jackass' #star #SteveO cancels plan for #breast #implants after a #realitycheck from a #trans #person.
He planned the #surgery as a #joke until a #conversation with a #transgender #person. Their conversation made him realize his pranks are "not all fun and games,
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Allies #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/jackass-steve-o-breast-implants
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'#Jackass' #star #SteveO cancels plan for #breast #implants after a #realitycheck from a #trans #person.
He planned the #surgery as a #joke until a #conversation with a #transgender #person. Their conversation made him realize his pranks are "not all fun and games,
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Allies #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/jackass-steve-o-breast-implants
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#Man shares two #lessons he learned from #disrupting a #racist #joke in a group of #white #people.
"Can you #speakup? Because our #silence is not #benign?"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #PunchingDown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #BlackMastodon
https://www.upworthy.com/white-person-shares-two-lessons-from-stopping-a-racist-joke-rp
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#Man shares two #lessons he learned from #disrupting a #racist #joke in a group of #white #people.
"Can you #speakup? Because our #silence is not #benign?"
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #PunchingDown #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #BlackMastodon
https://www.upworthy.com/white-person-shares-two-lessons-from-stopping-a-racist-joke-rp
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It seems like many Americans don't realize what small numbers certain minorities here make up.
• Jews: 2.4%
• Indigenous Peoples: 1.8%
• Muslims: 1.3%People, especially right-wing bigots, act like we make up much larger numbers.
* data from Wikipedia multiple entries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States#Demographics
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It seems like many Americans don't realize what small numbers certain minorities here make up.
• Jews: 2.4%
• Indigenous Peoples: 1.8%
• Muslims: 1.3%People, especially right-wing bigots, act like we make up much larger numbers.
* data from Wikipedia multiple entries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Jews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States#Demographics
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#JoeRogan’s #Sad little #Netflix #comedy #special is – #unsurprisingly – full of #gay and #trans ‘#jokes’.
The show is full of #antigay and #antitrans #jokes, including Rogan using #slurs for #gay and #developmentallydisabled #people.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Streaming #PunchingDown #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Ableism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/05/joe-rogans-netflix-comedy-special-gay-trans-jokes/
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#JoeRogan’s #Sad little #Netflix #comedy #special is – #unsurprisingly – full of #gay and #trans ‘#jokes’.
The show is full of #antigay and #antitrans #jokes, including Rogan using #slurs for #gay and #developmentallydisabled #people.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Streaming #PunchingDown #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Ableism #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/05/joe-rogans-netflix-comedy-special-gay-trans-jokes/
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5 #antiLGBT #celebrities and their #homophobic and #transphobic #comments: from Donald #Trump and #Rabid #TERF #JKRowling to #DaveChapelle and #Raper #DaBaby.
But who was caught in 2012 calling #gay #men ‘disgusting’?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #PunchingDown #EmptyThePews
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5 #antiLGBT #celebrities and their #homophobic and #transphobic #comments: from Donald #Trump and #Rabid #TERF #JKRowling to #DaveChapelle and #Raper #DaBaby.
But who was caught in 2012 calling #gay #men ‘disgusting’?
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia #PunchingDown #EmptyThePews
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#RichardDreyfuss #mocks #trans #youth in #bizarre #rant at “#Jaws” #film #screening.
He #claimed that a #trans #kid may also #identify as an #octopus one day.
#Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #PunchingDown #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews -
#RichardDreyfuss #mocks #trans #youth in #bizarre #rant at “#Jaws” #film #screening.
He #claimed that a #trans #kid may also #identify as an #octopus one day.
#Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #PunchingDown #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews -
#Hatemonger #JKRowling cruely calls #trans #soccer #official a “#crossdressing #straight #man” for no reason.
The wealthy #author with millions of #followers claimed it's not "#punchingdown" to #lashout at a relatively #obscure #trans #woman.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Scotland #TERFS #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFIsland
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#Hatemonger #JKRowling cruely calls #trans #soccer #official a “#crossdressing #straight #man” for no reason.
The wealthy #author with millions of #followers claimed it's not "#punchingdown" to #lashout at a relatively #obscure #trans #woman.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #UK #Scotland #TERFS #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFIsland
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— #Homophobia and #Transphobia can never be #satire. Calling #hate and #bigotry, a #joke doesn't make it #funny, lessen the #damage it does, or reduce the #harm it causes. It's just more #PunchingDown.
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#Comedian #KevinHart says he learned “#necessary” #lesson from #backlash over #homophobic #jokes.
“Sometimes it’s okay to take a step back and to be #educated
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Comedy #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Homophobia #Transphobia
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#Netflix #reveals #controversial and #unwanted #ChristmasDay #special.
This one might #testthelimits of your #Christmas #spirit... Gervais has been criticised for his #antitrans #jokes, and others seen as being at the #expense of #peoplewithdisabilities
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Netflix #Comedy #Hate #Bigotry #Ableism #Homophobia #Transphobia #PunchingDown
https://www.shortlist.com/news/netflix-reveals-controversial-christmas-day-special-404114
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#hese 5 #queer #women have the #internet #laughingoutloud
There's a reason why all of these #standup #comics have gone #viral #repeatedly, and it's not by #punchingdown
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Comedy #Representation #Culture
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/these-5-queer-women-have-the-internet-laughing-out-loud/
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#Netflix Is Once Again #Paying #DaveChappelle For a #Sad little #StandUp #ComedySpecial
It comes out on December 31st if you wanted to #ringin the #newyear with #someone who says they are “#Team #TERF.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #TV #Streaming #Netflix #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #PunchingDown
https://www.them.us/story/dave-chappelle-netflix-standup-comedy-special-2023
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5 #transgender #comedians that’ll make you #LOL
They remind us that the #stage can be a #platform for #advocacy and still make us #LOL the entire time, without having to resort to #punchingdown.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #NightLife #Comedy #Representation #Culture
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/08/5-transgender-comedians-thatll-make-you-lol/
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#TSMadison and #AngelicaRoss Are #CallingOut a #Comedian’s #Transphobic #Rant.
On #TikTok, #comic #JessHilarious compared #being #transgender to being #mentallyill.#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SocialMedia #Comedy #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #HateSpeech #NormalizingHate #NoPlatformForHate
https://www.them.us/story/jess-hilarious-ts-madison-angelica-ross-transphobic-video
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Noticing v. anecdotally - in #academia - how quickly 'n often monoligual speakers of English in my #UK context go on the defensive (in their tone of voice - a mix of sarcasm/affront) when presented with non-English sources and references: eg. 'would be nice to have an English plug-in for that!' or 'not all of us are multilingual' and 'I don't feel this is a very inclusive space'.
#MonoLingualism #MultiLingualism
#TransLingualism
#LinguisticImperialism #PunchingUp
#PunchingDown
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“#TheSimpsons” #blasted for #consistent #failure in #trans #representation.
Over its 34 #seasons, the #series has reduced #trans #characters to #jokes and included at least one wildly #transphobic #episode
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #TV #Culture #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #PunchingDown
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Using #trans #people as a #punchline doesn’t make you #funny, #HomeMinister #SuellaBraverman, it makes you a #Bigot
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #UK #Tories #Religion #PunchingDown #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #EmptyThePews
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#TERF defends her fellow #TERF
#JKRowling shows her support #JoannaCherry after the #Transphobic MP’s #Edinburgh #FringeFestival #comedy #show is cancelled after #venue's #staff #refused to support her over her #gendercritical #views.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #UK #Scotland #Comedy #PunchingDown #TERFS #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #TERFIsland #TERFFails
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#Transphobic #bigot #NoHun continues #transphobic #Hatespeech spree on #tiktok as the #socialmedia network ignores his harmful #attacks such as calling #trans #people‘mentally ill’
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #UK #Tiktok #Hate #Bigotry #Transphobia #PunchingDown #MoralPanic #HateSpeech #StochasticTerrorism #Hatecrimes
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/04/19/nohun-transphobia-raurie-williams-bailey-j-mills-pregnant/
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This type of humor perpetuates harmful stereotypes and diminishes the struggles faced by Trans individuals in society, who already face significant challenges and discrimination. It is important to recognize the impact of such humor and strive to promote more inclusive and respectful attitudes towards Trans people and their identities.