I agree.
Friendly reminder: deadnaming Twitter is not transphobic.
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what??? that's like deadnaming elons child!! oh wait, he does that.
I feel like most people are wildly inconsistent on this. Fat shaming? Small dick energy? How about mental illness? Baldness for some reason? Disabilities? Oh, we could probably go on about those. Some people seemingly decide a line is too simple and draw a complex sine function instead.
My rule is to try to be decent. Sometimes, I even succeed. But I don't think I'm very good at it, and neither are most of you. Bunch of hypocrites, we are.
I've always liked "Just don't punch down." But you're right, we're all hypocritical in some form or another.
The issue is that even when your target is "up", using common characteristics as insults means lots of people below that are going to catch strays, as it were.
The problem here is lots of people have different definitions of who is up or down.
I'm not really sure when it happened, but I'd say people were generally pretty successful at destroying the old social norms. There's a lot of terrible slurs that are no longer socially acceptable to say today, there was a lot of power that white men had in conversations that was stripped from them, it was good to get rid of.
The problem is that we didn't really replace it with anything. There was no great basic decency movement, nothing new about treating people with respect. If anything, it seems like we've embraced being more toxic than ever, and have decided to invent new ways to insult and belittle each other.
Haha you mean like when people make fun of ben shapiro for being short, "its ok because he's a piece of shit" alright well then make fun of them for their shit takes not the stuff they cant control.
I'll be over here minding my own short business catching strays from content creators I used to otherwise enjoy.
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But pointing out hypocrisy is AOK
I don't see anyone, on the left, disparaging public figures for being gay. I see plenty of people disparaging gay public figures for being hypocrites.
If you want to insult someone, don't say things you find offensive. Say things they find offensive.
Like when we called Conservatives weird and they had a literal meltdown?
yeah and when that was clearly working the Harris campaign just dropped it in favor of stupid shit like bragging about republicans endorsing her.
They had such a "literal meltdown" they took over all three branches of government.
Yeah, you really got under their skin.
How the country votes has nothing to do with actual conservatives melting down
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I remember when I was a teen talking online with someone from Britain. I don’t remember why, but at one point, he called me a “wanker.”
I thought it was hilarious. He thought he was insulting me, but since I’d never seen nor heard that word used in real life before, it had no emotional meaning to me. Instead, I was tickled by how silly (and patently British) the word sounded.
I am super racist against Republicans.
I used to have a mate called Josh who'd always call things gay if he didn't like him, and I asked him to stop. I said, imagine if I called stuff I don't like "joshy" or something. Anyway he stopped talking to me after that. It was a bit more heated than I've made it sound but you get the point.
Pretty joshy of him
I said that on here and was heavily downvoted. Granted, I was inebriated so a lot of anger came across (so I've since deleted it) so maybe it was that.
I don't even think it's that. Sometimes people get mad when you point out that they did something bigoted, even if they claim to be progressive.
Ya just imagine the same thing but with racism
Actually must be pretty sheltered cause I just don't run into this shit anymore.
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This is one of many reasons why I never liked the media going "I'm implying Putin and Trump are gay and wanna do it, that's the joke!"
God, the media sucked at making fun of Trump.
Remember how starting in 2016 EVERY show had to have a character who was "Basically Trump", and the plot was "Trump is bad." And the ONLY thing to do it competently was The Boys; Because it showcased Trump/Homelander as an actual threat and character study into "What if someone has no brains, no skills, all the power, the humility of Julius Caeser and the tolerance of Henry the VIII. And no one in charge is going to do anything about it. Why? Corporate and political entities fully realize he's a ticking time bomb they can barely control, but don't care about that little detail because he's useful to their agenda!"
instead of "Remember when Trump said dumb thing he actually said in real life? Laugh! Trump's an idiot and a loser, but we're also really afraid of him!" Which is not only not funny, but runs close to Fox News' "Weak Willed Tyrant Fallacy"
It's like, I get it, I hate Trump to, but for the love of God, change the fucking channel. I enjoy fiction to escape reality.
I'm really hoping we don't get a second wave of that. Because, holy shit, I understand that "orange man bad", please tell me what the fuck we're going to do about it besides try to make a buck off of it.
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If everyone you meet is an asshole ...
...You might just be a colorectal surgeon.
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Using someones homophobia to mock them is highly ok.
Don't call them a little faggot tho. That ain't cool.
I guess this is what is implied, but this is what I read at first.
This isn't a meme
A meme is a self replicating unit of cultural information. This is a meme
Internet memes and cultural memes are not the same thing. This isn't even a cultural meme - it's a screenshot of political opinion. Internet memes are pictures that are funny, ironic or relatable.
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Calling someone a dick is phallic. Got it.
And calling someone a cunt is yonic.
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