Quote Originally Posted by Cled-cat View Post
Wow, I haven’t heard that one before. I wonder how that applied for racists in the 50’s and 60’s, did their brains blow up from not being able to say the N-word anymore? I bet that rewiring of their brains was enormously difficult, we should be “enormously thankful” that they started to treat people with respect! Smh. Your “argument” is just a appeal to nature fallacy based on us humans apparently being hardwired machines with our languages and way we refer to each other instead of us actually having a mutable and adaptive understanding of words and their meanings, and how our language changes accordingly. Once there’s studies of friends and loved ones of trans relatives’s brain scans and the subsequent “rewiring” to accommodate the new pronouns, let me know!
There are no studies specific to "friends and loved ones of trans relatives’s brain scans and the subsequent “rewiring” to accommodate the new pronouns" that I know of, but hundreds of studies in parallel learnings which are pretty much the same. You should use google and find out how it works and what you're asking for to be done in an eye blink. We're indeed hardwired machines through life's experiences, which means that hardwiring can constantly change, at a cost of course, which I explicitly mentioned.
Also, why are you pulling the 50's 60's card here? That makes anything you say lose any value it could have.
If you want to play it that way, don't you find it amazing how much society changed in 50 years? FIFTY YEARS. It wasn't a day, a week or a month, it took FIFTY YEARS of PEOPLE WILLING TO CHANGE.
Yes, we should all be enormously thankful to all those who decided to make the titanic effort to change, go against the norm, risk their life and stop the racism you mention. If it wasn't for them, imagine the world we would live in today