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‘This Is the Worst Police-Shooting Video Ever’ - The officer who killed Sonya Massey didn’t see what I see.

What a horrible thing to happen. Was hear use of "rebuke" odd? Sure, but hardly threatening. I am very curious what the officer has to say in his defence, I do not see hos this could anything other than murder. Perhaps discussion of which degree, but surely murder and not manslaughter.

I am devastated on behalf of Massey's family and I hope they will eventually find peace.

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Patriotism vs Nationalism

The way I see it, patriotism is a gateway-philosophy to nationalism. At best I think it is unproductive and at worst it facilitates nationalism. In my native language there is no distinction between the concepts and last time it discussed in a non-negative light was during the Nazi occupation.

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I don't get the distinction between sex and gender. Your sex is determined by your chromosomes and the rest is whatever.

That is sort the point. Transgender people tend to just want be whatever they want gender-wise, which greatly offends some people. Other than that our language is gendered and many transgender people expect common curtisies, extended gender normative people, to also be extended to them. This being using their preferred pronouns.

The labels just help people talk about their gender and understand it better.

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so everyone thinks I'm a femboy now?

I am not trans and I have no experience with this sort of thing, however femboy might be a safe transitionary identity for you. That is of course, assuming you are comfortable with the label.

However, this is just an observation from an outsider. I am sure someone more qualified will have a betyder answer than me