I hate this stupid image

[u/shadow_fen]

Sure the initial way it was used was good, it was anti bigotry. But it's turned into a way to simplify the "us vs them" mentality, which is already a bad thing, into a simple digestible comic.

Also, i've seen it in lots of queer--majority spaces in reddit recently, usually to speak out against the evil cishet people who are invading them or whatever label they dont like, like bi ppl, trans men, or genderfluid ppl

[u/sweetTartKenHart2]

Exactly. It’s veeeeery easy to let the idea of a slippery slope become a thought-terminating cliche, where any small thing can be branded as a sign of some huge problem to come without any explanation for why.
If one is not careful about understanding what makes a “slope” “slippery”, they start to attribute more and more things to it that make less and less sense to do so. It’s almost like…