I asked them specifically because they demonstrated knowledge of the situation. I care about their opinion, not yours. You would know this if you read what I wrote.

This is not a forum like environment. Forums sort messages chronologically. Lemmy messages are nested, and you can reply at any level. As a matter of courtesy you should be mindful of which level you chose to respond to.

I was pretty clearly asking the person who posted the screenshots.

You’re doing that annoying thing that redditors started doing where you barge into a conversation several replies deep answering a question by pretending to be the person who was asked.

There are plenty of messages in this thread that are not asking a specific user for their thoughts, you could reply to instead. Read the room.

Who are you?

Thanks so much for posting this. Since you’re clearly more familiar with nutomic, and this conversation do you think my assessment is off base?

This context doesn’t change my conclusion, but I’m clearly a prime target for confirmation bias as I made up my mind before seeing it.

I’ve only ever seen one comment from nutomic cited as evidence of transphobia. And its a DM responding to some mystery comment that is never posted alongside it. A bit suspicious when the only evidence is presented without context.

Though it does contain the transphobic dogwhistle, “biological man,” but that term is also one a reasonable person could reasonably reach from a place of ignorance. He also admitted to knowing very little about trans issues.

Also the trans comments are just one in a list of things. Without context there’s no way to know if those even are his own ideas, or a summery of the mystery comment he’s responding to, but also clearly disagrees with.

The opposition to nutomic on the basis of transphobia feels very much like a witch hunt. This doesn’t seem like strongly held anti-trans beliefs. People are occasionally wrong or misinformed about things. And that’s okay!

Edit: misremembered the specific language in the quote