The other day, I saw a post which had this screenshot in it
People pointed out that “June” not only called a trans person a slur (ok*ma), they also said “go and do what the person in Nashville did”. Then, “June” argued “where did I say anything about a shooter” and “you can’t speak for my intentions”. They also made the same argument to defend Elon Musk when he made a Nazi salute. “You cannot speak for other people’s intentions” they said.
What’s the best way to respond to people who use “you can’t speak for my intentions” to gaslight people, especially when they’re using it to try and get away with saying something terrible?
edit:
I found this YouTube channel exposing this “June” person, and “June” argues that it’s “all slander” or “it’s taken out of context”, “you cannot speak for my intentions”. But when you look into the video descriptions, the channel uploader includes lots of links too, not just screenshots, and some of those links go directly to comments the person the channel appears to be exposing making some questionable comments about and to someone they knew was only 14 years old.
When people don’t believe “June” that it’s “all slander”, “June” argues “you cannot speak for another person’s intentions” and “you’re misinterpreting everything”.
Apparently they’re also a mod on AskLemmy?
Give up. Block them. Move on. There is zero possibility of changing them.
“Okay, nazi”
Report, block and move on lol
If he miscommunicated his intention then he is still at fault
Block button.
why did they call someone an okama while speaking english
From what I recall, the trans person that “June” is responding to on Discord is Japanese. “June” argued they didn’t know the Japanese language well and thought that “Okama” was something out of the “One Piece” anime.
They apologized to the trans person when other people, by their own admission, had “convinced” them to do so, saying they did not know Japanese well. Their apology made no mention of the part about them telling the trans person to go and do what the Nashville school shooter (Aiden Hale, who was trans) did.
Intent is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Dont discuss intent, always discuss behavior. Intent= When i stabbed my sister 84 times I was trying to save a puppy and slipped. Lets discuss how awesome of a puppy saver I am instead. Youre right to recognize this as gaslighting.
While I agree with most of what you are saying, I don’t think this is an example of gaslighting. This is just run of the mill dishonesty.
The best way to get under the skin of people like that is to truly not care and tune them out. It’ll drive them crazy. But you won’t care. It’s the best of both worlds once you get there.
“ok edgelord”
You don’t. You never feed trolls.
