“John Green, while death threats to Laci Green are bad, no arguing wtih that, Laci’s done a lot more negative things than casually use the word “tranny”. She has videos up about her islamophobia as well as several that border on fat shaming.”

I have a lot of messages like this.

1. We can’t have constructive conversations about how to talk with each in respectful ways when we threaten people, because then the threatened are forcibly removed from the conversation.

2. I’m not attempting to defend transphobia or fat-shaming or islamophobia or islamophilia or anything else. I’m just saying that we literally cannot have productive conversations when voices are silenced by threats. So you can not say to Laci, “Hey, I don’t think Islam is inherently misogynistic, because of A, B, and C,” because Laci is not here, because she is staying away from the Internet for fear that further participation in it will lead to her murder. That’s not a good way to change the discourse about islamophobia or anything else.

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    I don’t know where I was when this was happening, but here’s something I learnt in primary school: Two wrongs don’t make...
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    The thing about this is that trans* people have to deal with this on a day-to-day basis just for being trans*. Like, the...
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    There’s also the fact that she was just saying her own experience with Islam, her father’s former religion, was not...
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    an excellent point about death threats,...other types of threatening language was made by...
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    posting for commentary
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    I will never not love John Green.
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