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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8320930" data-attributes="member: 58197">Ernie did not say that he wanted anybody dead, and I am sure that he does not, in fact, want anybody dead.But. There is a lively crowd of people who do, in fact, want to hurt and sometimes kill trans people; and we have already seen that they are paying attention and responding. People in this very thread have gotten death threats*. That is the context in which all this is unfolding, and the reason Ernie's statements are getting the level of blowback that they are.Ernie chose to publicly associate himself with those folks, encouraging and validating their bigotry. You can't embrace the bigotry and disavow what springs from it. And if he was unaware of the context before, a great many people have now brought it to his attention.*To be clear, the people are in this thread. The death threats are elsewhere. Unless one was made by the new poster who got insta-banned; I did not see that post before it was deleted by the mods, and judging by the reaction it got, that's a good thing.</blockquote>