Many people in Discord communities learned English as a second language, and some of them are self-taught.
Some languages are weird and do not use genders at all. People coming from those languages have a hard time dealing with gendered languages such as English.
Some people do not know what misgendering is, or even what a trans person is, or their culture might not deal with that in the same way your cultures does. Probably they have a different term for it or it is taboo for them to talk about it.
Deaf people are about the same percentage of the population as people who identify as trans. Have you learned sign language? when you approach people, do you consider they may not be able to hear you? Why is this?
There are many groups that also amount to 0.6 to 5% of the population yet are more understanding that the rest of the population may not be prepared to address their needs. Not because of malice or hate but because they simply do not know or they come from a different culture.
Correction: this was not a case of accidental misgendering. The post refers to someone abusing mod privileges to edit someone's pronouns to "who/cares".
I am just trying to say that we should begin our conversations giving each other the benefit of the doubt, and then build mutual understanding through compassion and empathy. That is all.
That mod is likely an ill-intentioned guy and in violation of the Discord ToS, but starting every conversation by accusing others of being ill-intentioned is how we end achieving nothing as a society.
Punishment and an escalation of intolerance are not the goal, tolerance is. We are not going to heal the world one accusation or insult at a time.
When you are not a prejudiced person, a good starting point is to consider yourself fortunate in that respect, and then acknowledging others might not have been as fortunate as you.
Is there no self reflection in these communities? Everywhere they go is toxic and hateful. We're giving so much rope to protected groups that they will eventually hang everyone with it.
Some languages are weird and do not use genders at all. People coming from those languages have a hard time dealing with gendered languages such as English.
Some people do not know what misgendering is, or even what a trans person is, or their culture might not deal with that in the same way your cultures does. Probably they have a different term for it or it is taboo for them to talk about it.
Deaf people are about the same percentage of the population as people who identify as trans. Have you learned sign language? when you approach people, do you consider they may not be able to hear you? Why is this?
There are many groups that also amount to 0.6 to 5% of the population yet are more understanding that the rest of the population may not be prepared to address their needs. Not because of malice or hate but because they simply do not know or they come from a different culture.