#loaded question

Mic drop... Mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson, superbly owns the moment

Always remember TWICE AS MUCH. Black people have always known we have to learn twice as much as white people and even more to get at the table. Don't try to bait us with a one-sided loaded question.

Banshee stares at the paper, then turns it upside down.

"I never said I was an artist," Cayde says over Banshee's shoulder. "This gets at the spirit of it."

Banshee turns the paper around again. "So that's…"

"The laser tracker, yeah."

"Huh." Banshee tilts his head. "And those…"

"Racing stripes."

"…On a fusion rifle."

"We're just—" Cayde throws his arms up. "We're just tossin' out ideas here, pal! Don't shut anything down until you get the whole picture."

"Seems like the picture's the problem."

"OK. Listen—the details aren't important. I just want a good gun that you take out and the fight's already over." He shoots at invisible opponents. "Tsuu-tsuu-tsuu! The end."

Banshee relaxes. He knows good guns.

Cayde clasps Banshee's shoulder. "So is that a yes?"

"Uh-huh."

"Great!" Cayde claps his hands. "Not to rush your genius, but chop-chop, all right? I maybe made a bet with a certain Crucible handler, and I maybe don't have the Glimmer to back it up, so… By the way, you'll do this on an IOU, right?"

Banshee points to the paper one more time. "Is that…?"

"Why do you, a man of science, deny the reality that trans people exist? Why do you feel the need to hate a minority group that only wants to live their life as their true self and be left alone?"

That's a ridiculous question. And it-- I don't deny their existence and I don't in any way oppress them. What I object to is the statement a woman can have a penis. A trans woman is a woman. I object to that because that's a distortion of language and a distortion of science.

But as to saying they don't exist, that's absurd. Of course they exist.

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This is called a loaded question. They want you to accept their reality on their terms or else admit you're some kind of istaphobe.

It's similar to when religionists say things like, "why do you hate and oppose god when you claim you don't believe in him?" The implication is that your opposition is proof you believe in their god. Of course, you don't have to believe in their god in order to accept that their religion exists and people who believe in that god and religion exist, and oppose the values of the religion, the people who follow it, and what they try to do in the world based on those beliefs.