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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 9, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.

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The problem with this is exactly what you've done here- complain about things liberals-as-in-freedom would normally have problems with yet have the intention of smuggling a bunch of progressive idpol stuff in.

In this case, you've conflated standard free speech issues with "and that's why they need special protection" (which in practice is only ever applied in a way that favors Western progressives- we can argue over is-ought, but the best way to avoid abuse of a carve-out is to not have one in the first place) and "actually yes, the government should pretend men are women" (antisocial behaviors have a bimodal distribution).

So denying the frame to the progressives by 'ruling the international LGBTQ movement to be "extremist"' is, trivially, the correct answer- the solution if your nation is looking to make relations between straights and everyone else better is always something homegrown.

I genuinely don’t understand what you’re trying to say because I don’t know what “liberals as in freedom” or “standard free speech issues”. Can you repeat yourself with different vocabulary?