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[–] mke 28 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

I've always liked "Just don't punch down." But you're right, we're all hypocritical in some form or another.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

But what if it's in the positive? Damn girl I like your fat ass. But I can see it being used negatively.

I like Big Dick Energy though. Can we keep that?

[–] mke 6 points 3 hours ago

I think you answered your own question? It depends on meaning and context, not just words themselves. And while positive messages intersect the overarching topic, they're different enough that we can't just bundle them together and treat them in the same fashion.

I like Big Dick Energy though. Can we keep that?

Can't handle the magnitude of that question on my own, I'm afraid.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Actually must be pretty sheltered cause I just don't run into this shit anymore.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

The cool kids have moved on to using ableism to mock public figures. Now Trump is a psychopath, Musk is a narcissist, and Peterson is schizo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know right, can't we just leave the high functioning unmedicated, untreated, psychopaths, narcissist, and schitzos alone. Its perfectly normal they hold reins of power.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Not as cool as being an apologist for christo-fascists

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago

You, uh, didn't pay any attention to the point of the original post, did you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Drag, I get where you're coming from, but don't you think those three groups are different?

Schizo? Schizo ppl are harmless and don't deserve to have something fundamental to their mental state used as an insult. I completely agree with you here.

Narcissist? This wasn't always a diagnosis and doesn't always refer to one. I don't see anything wrong with using this as an insult. Defending it under ableism kinda feels like calling the word "abuser" abelist - sure, abusive people probably also struggle with mental health.

Psychopath? That's also pretty hard to defend.

Honesty I think you'd be better off pointing out how these people aren't mentally ill and are fully culpable for what they do, instead of labeling it all abelist.

The word Schizo definetly doesn't belong here, that is abelist. Peterson isn't schizo he's a close minded misandrist.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 48 minutes ago

Defending it under ableism kinda feels like calling the word "abuser" abelist

Drag is willing to accept that premise only after psychologists put "abuser disorder" in the DSM. They can probably put it right next to "crime disorder" and "being a bad person disorder" within the "things that are behaviours and not mental health conditions" section. Until that section gets made, everything in the DSM is a mental health condition and NOT an action.

Honesty I think you'd be better off pointing out how these people aren't mentally ill and are fully culpable for what they do, instead of labeling it all abelist.

Por que no los dos?

Trump is a criminal because he's chosen to do criminal things. Musk is an abuser because he's chosen to do abusive things. ASPD and NPD aren't choices and they aren't actions. Mixing up criminal and abusive behaviour with mental health conditions is ableist. It's the ableism that happens when you hear about a bad thing and assume a minority did it. "Someone robbed the convenience store? Must have been a black." "A famous musician molested a child? I always knew he was gay." "A politician bribed a pornstar with campaign funds to hide his relationship with her? He must have a mental illness." It's wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

A meme is a self replicating unit of cultural information. This is a meme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 hours ago

Yes they are the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If you want to insult someone, don't say things you find offensive. Say things they find offensive.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Like when we called Conservatives weird and they had a literal meltdown?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

yeah and when that was clearly working the Harris campaign just dropped it in favor of stupid shit like bragging about republicans endorsing her.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I agree.

Friendly reminder: deadnaming Twitter is not transphobic.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

what??? that's like deadnaming elons child!! oh wait, he does that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

But pointing out hypocrisy is AOK

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Yes, I agree with you

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If everyone you meet is an asshole ...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 hours ago

...You might just be a colorectal surgeon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Ya just imagine the same thing but with racism