I'm speaking from experience here: it's not worth it.

The student has become the master. Japan has fully embraced the American way of eating.

My first MMO (graphical MMO, not MUDs and the like) was Meridian 59. Then the Ultima Online beta.

So when I say that SWTOR had its strong points, what are you going to use to question my...MMO credentials, I guess?

"I remember the David Reimer story, and I actually believe that it supports my point."

But it doesn't. I'll try to explain why.

1: You're too focused on "choice". Do you believe people choose to be gay? People do not "choose" to be trans.

2: DNA isn't magic. Having something "in your DNA" is not, by itself, enough to do…

I'm curious why you put "trans" in quotes, but to address the main point:

Just because it's bound to happen doesn't mean people should just turn a blind eye. Again, let's say it was a black guy instead, and the comedian had been accused of throwing racial slurs at him, calling him "boy", speaking in a "Stepin Fetchit"…

The biology argument is both weaker and more complicated than you think, but leaving that aside:

"But it doesn't follow that the XX / XY binary then ceases to exist."

Well, it kind of does. As human beings, we love to divide things into binary categories; however, reality is rarely so neat and tidy.

I wonder about the focus on DNA. Do you get a DNA test for everyone you meet so you know how to treat them? Does DNA…

First of all, putting quotes around the word she is kind of a dick move.

Secondly, if she were legitimately mis-gendered and mocked because of her trans status on stage by a paid Microsoft presenter, yes, that would be a significant issue, the same as it would if a black guy went up on stage and the presenter started…

"2. I still don't believe that people can choose their sex."

No offense, but to a certain extent, your belief (or lack thereof) is irrelevant.

That's without getting into the fact that biological sex is a lot more complicated than you apparently think. What defines it? Chromosomes? Ability to reproduce?

If a woman with…

Yeah, but the examples you cite (Racist, cis-scum, ignorant) are, as you mention, not limited to straight white guys, and even if they were, they lack the same kind of social power or inertia.

When you call a black guy a racial slur, you are essentially evoking a lot of history there. You're evoking slavery, Jim Crow,…

Eh...nice try with the "obvious" bit, but the rest was pretty half-hearted. C-.

Like with most things, I'd say that context matters.

In some cases? Most, even? Sure, the mob mentality would be excessive. If some guy says something as a passing comment, I'm not going to try to track down where he works and ruin the guy.

But if someone says something in the course of their job, I very well might tell…

As it stands, your trolling could use some work. Too obvious, no spark. You know?

So people have the freedom to say insulting, bigoted, offensive shit, but...other people don't have the freedom to speak out against them?

"trannies"

Yeah, please don't do that. I mean, I know it was probably said innocently, but that word is roughly equivalent to "faggot" or "nigger". It has...a lot of baggage.

Anyway, as to the rest:

Reacting to people for what they say is not "undermining free speech"; that is free speech working as intended. If a guy…

Uh, no.

"Political correctness" is a term used by people who are upset that it's socially unacceptable for them to act like assholes.

"Either everything is okay to make fun of or nothing is." is also a reductive and simplistic view of things. Everything CAN potentially be material for a joke, but some stuff requires a…

Actually, as I recall, the original article reported the allegations; they did not state them as unequivocal fact. They also reached out to both Microsoft and the comedian for comment (and updated the article once they'd gotten it).

While it may have been better for all involved if the story hadn't run until all the…

Stay classy.

Well, sure. That's where intersectionality and all of that stuff come in.

What I meant (and what I probably could have articulated more clearly) is that there's nothing you can call a straight white guy because of those attributes (straight, white, male) that are in any way equivalent to what you could call people…

Well, right. That's a perfectly reasonable approach.