Don’t worry, I’m not going to reply to random comments of yours with something like “oh hey, it’s that guy who defends the using of the word “guy” for everyone”. I’m fairly certain you aren’t a transphobe, and insinuating you are would be a dick move. My instance (rightfully) has rules against being uncivil and I value my comrades and membership there.

I’ve made this comparison before, but in my local queer group of friends (it’s seriously in our name on our discord server), the word queer is a catch-all term for anyone LGBT. It was originally used as a slur, but it’s long since been reclaimed by queer people. But there are still some who don’t like the word. I’ve never met any, but if I did, I would refrain from using the word around them out of respect. But amongst my other queer friends, I’m obviously going to still going to use the word because we like it.

Now, I had no idea that the word in question had racist origins (a claim that I’m still somewhat dubious of). But you people clearly don’t like it, so I agreed to not use it around you. But in my friend group it is completely reclaimed, even if it were racist at some point. I see no reason to force it into becoming a slur with them.

If you really think I’m a racist, why aren’t I banned? That would be against instance rules. Otherwise, I would like to ask you to respect these rules on your instance:

We will ban you if you insult, demean or harass anyone. That is not welcome behavior. This is distinctly different than ribbing or grilling someone.

Likewise any spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting or other attention-stealing behavior is not welcome and will be banned.

Because getting accused of being a racist every time I post anything here is really not something I need in my life.