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It is impenetrable jargon

Lol, what are you, illiterate?

Cisgender and heterosexual are really simple to understand, basically every American learns the second term in science class for fucks sake

And with TRANSgender rights in the media for 10 years now only an idiot wouldn’t be able to at least make a good guess on what CISgender might mean

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If you tell Americans outside cosmopolitan cities they must declare themselves publicly as “cis het” or else they’re a bigot (I caricature but only slightly), then you should expect to lose elections.

And American elections tend to affect other people in the world. That’s why lots of us wish you would let up a bit on this nonsense.

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If you tell Americans outside cosmopolitan cities they must declare themselves publicly as “cis het” or else they’re a bigot

Nothing even close to that is happening and you’d have to be willfully ignorant to pretend otherwise

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In polls and focus groups, the voters themselves say otherwise.

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With all due respect, I live in the Midwest and run with some rather blue-collar people in a completely blue, large city.

Everyone feels as though the Democrats have stopped listening to them and have been yelling at them for the last 10 years.

And just the mere fact that you are probably going to have the knee jerk reaction and call me an ignorant bigot is part of the problem.

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Maybe what they are trying to say is that most everyday folks don’t use those terms in any normal conversation. I’ve never used those terms myself and haven’t heard them in any conversation I can recall outside of the Internet.

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Maybe what they are trying to say is that most everyday folks don’t use those terms in any normal conversation

Then say that and not that they’re “impenetrable jargon”, because saying what they said makes you come across as so stupid it’s unbelievable and wraps around to “too obvious”

I’ve never used those terms myself and haven’t heard them in any conversation I can recall outside of the Internet.

Yeah, because they’re not actually all that relevant to normal life, but online it’s far easier and simpler to put them out there so people can properly address you in the anonymous internet. Also being put into games and shit for representation, which is likely included in what the person was whinging about

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