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What are the taboo subjects? (leminal.space)

submitted 2 weeks ago by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Roko's basilisk, if you run an online forum for “futurist” dumbasses.

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[–] xilliah@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

As a lesbian trans person I like the words dyke and tranny, but only use it for myself. They're funny and cute. I was honestly surprised to learn that people are so deeply against the words.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

As a lesbian trans person I'll be glad to not hear those words said about me thanks.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

Marxism, depending on the audience.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Religion, Politics, Political Genders, and...maybe Football. The real football.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What makes a gender political? First I'm hearing that term.

[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

It's a play on the joke "There are 3 genders, male, female, and political"

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 weeks ago

You first!

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

With women, bathroom talk. With the boys we always talk about shit and piss and crack each other up. But mention anything related to that around a girl, she'll look at you as if you killed her dog.

[+] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 2 weeks ago

The funny thing is that a lot of those problems are better attributed to society/culture/education than genetics or biology, since it's people that vote/support other people. Unless you can somehow breed out psychopaths, and whatever makes people willing to sacrifice the collective for personal gain, from the human species, eugenics won't do shit.

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

The assignment was to state a topic. Not advocate for it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

Eugenics isn't a stupid idea on the face of it, but then you look at where our dog breeding has gone...

The good news is that humans are pretty adaptable already. The only things that really definitely could sink us are our inability to react to very abstract, gradual problems and our tribalism.

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[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like I’m not good with words, so when I criticize popular things like Baldur’s gate 3 or Witcher 3 I usually get downvoted

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

People put BG3 on a massive pedestal and any sort of valid complaint around launch was heavily downvoted. It's not quite as bad now, thank god. I got gaslit so much. Everything was my fault supposedly, not their perfect, polished game.

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[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Israel

Men’s rights

Boys being left behind in school

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