If you're browsing comment sections thinking "hmmm does any of this clash with my views on $ISSUE" and actively go around confronting random internet commenters on their views then you are being hyperconscious and thin-skinned. Why do you care what random internet commenters think of people in the same group as you? Why is it so important that everyone approve of you? Why do you care?

Once again there you go insisting bigotry can't exist, that anyone with a problem is choosing to imagine one and that the problem lies with those who care.

Stop refusing to accept that bigotry can exist on TiA. Whether or not you think it's worth confronting over is a conversation we can have once you stop pretending it's inconceivable that there could actually be assholes on the sub.

Personally, I'm never offended by the bigotry I do see so much as just annoyed that I can't contribute without getting sucked into a tedious defense of my gender when I'm trying to use my gender identity to provide context for a viewpoint I have relevant to the main conversation, but if some people are being offended then the conversation is worth having. Hell, OP isn't necessarily even asking for there to be stricter rules and moderation, they seem to just asking why they're noticing so many more offensive posts lately. Why do you feel the need to invalidate that perception?

Yeah, I did, but instead of leaving it at that, or, god forbid, saying that in your own head and deciding to give someone the benefit of doubt, you still had to go ahead and make it a "teachable moment". Besides, all I did was point out that you deliberately went for the worst and most coincidentally furthest reaching interpretation possible.

That 'teachable moment' was germane to the conversation. You said a thing that resembled some of the posts OP referred to and I pointed it out. I didn't go for the 'worst interpretation', I picked the one item in your list that would be most likely to offend people.

And you decided to focus on this oblique unrelated aspect of what I said, instead of what I actually said. It was a list of groups of people who have been featured on TiA who came to TiAD to complain that members of their group were being mocked. There being sane members is not a prerequisite, or even relevant.

This is the post you made earlier:

"Oh, TiA used to be so good, then they made fun of people who identify like ME and now it's suddenly full of evil hardcore right wing bigots who literally want to murder everyone like me and why can't anyone else see it?!" We've had it from asexuals, we've had it from vegans, from feminists, from MRAs, from trans, from otherkin, from everyone. It's all fun and games until the ridiculous aspects of their pet cause are mocked, then we're an evil hate group.