Mizzou?

You clearly didn’t go to UW. There were no letter grades.

That’s extrapolation from personal belief. I have no such chip; all I asked for was being allowed a seat at the table, which was vehemently declined.

Cheers, and best of luck!

I’m unimpressed. I scrolled the homepage and found little of value.

FreeCodeCamp.org has a lot of guided resources. Khan Academy as well. If you can only really learn in person (which, I’ll admit, is a problem for me as well), look up local makerspaces. They don’t always have tech courses, but they always have someone who knows tech.

How am I doing so? Please, let me know so that I can avoid doing so in the future. “Fucking pathetic” only indicates that you did not like what I said, not any alternative worldview other than “you’re cis, and therefore the enemy.”

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I wrote one comment and was content to leave it there. The only reason the conversation has dragged on is that I had no right to participate on a public forum.

I’ve been engaged in activism for quite some time, and the reactions I got increasingly irritated by are exactly how you kill sympathy for your cause. Engage. Educate. Telling people they shouldn’t even be there by the trans community is so tone-deaf that I’m having trouble following how the vitriol advances the movement.

I’m trying to help. I’m trying to explain how organizing and building a community works, and I keep being told that being cis means I have nothing to contribute. It’s sort of devolved into vegans attacking vegetarians for cruelty. Neither eats meat, yet they focus on their differences instead of realizing they have the same ethics, just draw lines differently.

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Then what are you saying? Because from my perspective, you’re trying to proclaim activism without having taken Activism 098.

You’re still saying your supporters have no right to a voice unless they’re exactly like you. That is a very slippery slope, since, ostensibly, the point of a day of awareness is to promote conversation. That’s exactly the sort of argument people make to oppose trans rights in the first place.

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Doesn’t this just assert that grades themselves are somewhat meaningless?

By this logic, anyone who isn’t Black shouldn’t talk for all of Black History Month. It’s an absurd expectation.

Interesting perspective. And yeah, having functioning transit and infrastructure changes the calculus.

But I’m going to push back on the trauma point. I had such moments growing up, and the net result was making sure I had my gloves in the future to avoid a repeat.

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I’m not one to pray, but Hegseth would be nice. I mean, give the guy a chance to just spend all day drinking!