"I don't have time to educate you" is absolutely just another tool in the box for avoiding any kind of substantial discussion and is just a buzz phrase at this point. It's not unlike "dogwhistle" or "gaslight" in that it does have an actual meaning and a valid use, or it did, but now it's so contaminated by exceptional individuals that it has lost all value and meaning. It isn't just troons who do this, either - read basically any thread in TGRS, including the fucking OP, and you'll see this type of shit crop up with some frequency. Everything about how the fringe online left argues is built on trying to create a rhetorical trap; they can never be wrong for reasons that they refuse to explain, and disagreement is an indicator that you are a "bad faith actor" (another buzz phrase that now means nothing). There is no such thing as an argument that does not take place in bad faith, because good faith means you already agree with them and thus wouldn't be arguing. If you bring up issues like "uh, why do you keep saying autogynephilia as a theory for transsexualism has been debunked, who debunked it, please link me to studies backing you up," they don't have the time to educate you (despite posting on a dead gay forum 24/7).
The Extremely Online left became everything that they claim to hate the Extremely Online right for, in much the same way that SA became exactly the type of website it would ruthlessly mock. On SA, you can now have good politics or bad politics (which, just fucking lol), but how or why these changes happened is never examined, because you're not allowed to question it, it is just tautologically correct.
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