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Are you talking about the post you made less than one hour ago with 10 downvotes and 2 comments?

I wouldn't call that an overwhelming response nor downvoted to oblivion

As of right now, your other post has 15 downvotes and 3 comments from others (the other 4 are you). All three comments say that you're posting bait. This is hardly "oblivion."

To answer your question, people are harsh on the transracial thing because they feel it's similar to how some pedophiles are trying to normalize pedophilia, and are trying to make themselves part of the LGBTQ+ movements (even though most people don't recognize that as legitimate). Whatever your views on any of these issues, many people feel that injecting illigitmate (or bad faith) cases like this actually takes away from the people fighting for legitimate things.

I'm not taking sides right now, just trying to help you understand why you're getting this response. If you're vying for transracial identities as legitimate, you've got a long and harsh road ahead, expect more pushback like this in almost all spaces.

You be trollin trollin trollin
To get our keyboards rollin

Your post was about a friend who's "transracial" (your term), not trans in the sense that they identify as a different gender than the one they were assigned at birth. Plus, you use the term "trans" to refer to that identity like it's a universally-accepted conclusion and just as accepted as the other use of trans. You also insult those who don't agree with this, call them transphobic, and accuse anyone who disagrees of brigading (with no evidence). While not personally included in either group, my understanding is that this point of view is very controversial and could be considered offensive to people from one, both, or neither community. Again, no opinion on the content, but I believe that's part of why it didn't resonate with people reading it.

TLDR: It's controversial because it's controversial.

You attempted to troll. You received a minor amount of downvotes and backlash. 🤷 If you don't like that people on Lemmy are reasonable, you can just stop using Lemmy.

So, I dug a little bit because I was curious, and based on their responses, I think they assumed you were a bot and/or karma farmer.

Your account was less than a day old, and you dropped a story that mentions multiple controversial topics. That's exactly what someone would do if they were trying to get a lot of activity on an account fast. Hell, maybe they were right and I'm feeding the troll. But, if not, just give it a few days and join in a few conversations before posting a story and expecting it to hit the top of the boards.

Dude you even got blahaj users to say something. All you did was you tried to bait people, and you were called out for it.

I think the question should be "Why is lemmy like the rest of the internet?"

Lemmy is no better or worse than any other social site on the web. You will find communities that are at either extreme end of trans acceptance and you'll find middle-ground. If you are not in a walled-garden community, you are going to get the very vocal of both ends of the spectrum. That is the same as anywhere else on the internet.

The people that aren't either enraged or extremely aligned with your post are likely not going to take the time to comment. You get the leftovers and often, those people are not people that represent the average Joe or Jane.

I think it's good that you share your thoughts and experience but I wouldn't spend too much time worrying about those that make it their duty to make light of it or discount it.

Hold up, transracial? Wtf is that? Edit: nvm figured it out. Also turns out im Mongolian. Explains that weird throat singing thing i always felt a need to do on top of mountains.

Some people are dicks

When some people on Lemmy

The problem is you didn't post about moths instead.