It would be helpful if you could cite any specific conversations. You don’t even need to link to them, just mention what they were about(more specifically than just “hate speech”).

I don’t remember hate speech being a frequent topic on this website.

Since some people seem to think only people in a certain group get to have an opinion related to matters concerning that group, I’ll go ahead an imagine what would happen if a comedian said similar things about people on the autism spectrum like me. If a famous comedian said in a special that, say, autism isn’t real,…

I think you may be getting cause and effect wrong as far as 1/6 goes. I think it’s mostly Trump supporters who embolden him rather than the reverse.

So the people who suffer as a direct result of the speech in question get to decide people who suffer as a direct result of the speech in question. Circular logic is circular.

Every time what topic comes up? This article wasn’t the first one about the Chappelle controversy, and I didn’t comment in the other ones.

See, was that so hard? If you could just link to the most relevant examples I don’t see why I needed to sift through all the data myself in order to make your argument for you.

So what do you think the impact would be of leaving the special up?

Funny you should accuse me of being “inconvincible” when your whole premise is that your views are so obviously right that any attempt to convince you otherwise is worthy of mockery.

I think those people picked their media sources because they already agree with them, so I think the cause and effect goes the other way as far as views go.

Who gets to decide who those people are?

I haven’t seen his special, don’t plan to, and have never defended transphobia.

You’re reminding me of people who respond to a request for an example of something to prove their point by saying “There’s too many examples to count.” Yes, you gave one example, but I didn’t think it made the point you think it did, so I’m skeptical that all the vast amounts of literature that you think proves your…

I didn’t say or mean to say she was overrated.

I don’t think a correlation between hate speech and violence shows causation.

There’s debate over how spontaneous the Montgomery bus boycott was. Rosa Parks wasn’t the first black woman to refuse to give up her seat. Nine months earlier Claudette Colvin did the same thing, but civil rights activists decided to wait for a case they thought would better draw public sympathy.

My point was that I doubt that he actually strengthened transphobes’ beliefs so much as they’re fans of him because of what they already believe, so I’m skeptical of the idea that he made the impact of their transphobia worse.

I think Trump emboldened his supporters less than they emboldened him.

I’m guessing transphobes would find some other lightning rod.

Which comment are you responding to?