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Help, I can't convince people who have more direct experience than me that they are wrong
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No, what I specifically said was that we shouldn't follow the will of the majority in all things, because the majority can and does act in tyrannical ways. Meanwhile, you're insisting that letting everyone always vote on every single thing would somehow result in a utopia.
Here's the thing: I live in the rural south. Our local high school has one transgender student. The superintendent consulted with an attorney, and then let the student us the bathroom of the gender that they identify with. The community as a whole fucking lost their minds. The school board held a public meeting about it where they explained why they took the steps they did, and then they let community members speak. In a town of 5k people, there were over 500 people attending. They cut off comments after three hours. It was roughly 10:1 against treating this poor girl like a girl.
If they'd taken a vote that very day, she would have been run out of town on a rail covered in tar and feathers, because the town is full of bigoted evangelical christians. But you think that people should always get to vote on everything, even when they have zero real knowledge about the subject? That's absolute nonsense.
Okay, and right fucking now those countries are voting for people that have explicitly told them that they're going to clamp down on trans rights, and then those people are doing it. So the countries where people vote are becoming less safe for trans people, even if it's still safer than being transgender in, say, Iran.
Tldr
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Jesus fuck. You argue that the tyranny of the majority doesn't exist, and when I prove that it does, with examples, you block. You can't even cite anything to justify your position.
What the shit, my dude.