• li10@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      If they think they’re having any real effect on anything then they majorly need to touch some grass.

      This is the reality of their “dunking on user bases”

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        There’s plenty of correct ways to criticize them, you don’t need to resort to ableist slurs my dude. We can be better than that.

            • goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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              Absolutely!

              but in this case, I don’t see the use of retard offensive. If it was directed at people with actual learning disabilities, then yeah, definitely.

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                You don’t really want to encourage the idea that disabled = bad, and you can use it as an insult. It’s still racist to insult a white person with the n-word, because even if it’s not offensive to them, it carries on the cultural attitude that black people are inferior. The idea is to foster a culture that is inclusive to disabled people.

                • goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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                  Are you disabled? Since if you’re not, you’re not in a position to be lecturing if disabilities are good or bad.

            • goat@sh.itjust.worksM
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              What would you suggest instead? The word idiot? That has connotations for the intellectually disabled. Stupid? Same thing.

              • Lols [they/them]@lemm.ee
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                i prefer vague connotations over explicit slurs that folks actually register as kicking down on disabled folks

  • CorruptBuddha@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I appreciate the fuck out of Hexbear. Over the past few years I’ve seen a massive ideological shift in a bunch of communities I use to enjoy. Like feminist communities shifted from egalitarian/humanist perspectives towards more bigioted attitudes, people stopped caring about confronting their own biases, and instead try to justify them, because “the patriarchy”. I’ve encountered these people in real life. I once got in an argument with another nonbinary with them telling me “You need to understand the world sees you as a white male”.

    I see people getting called white supremace for calling out racism.

    Sorry I know this is a ramble, still processing.

    Anyways, now that I see the fingerprints of Marxism I can just call it out.

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      I think this is a side effect of social media algorithms as a whole. It pushes people into more extreme views of content/ideoligies that they already have, potentially pushing them to a point they wouldn’t have chosen.

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    It’s weird how they can’t seem to realize they’re literally, exactly the same as trumpers. They’re just tanky Qanon. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so sad.

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    You have to appreciate the irony of forcing people to be communist, or else. Literally doing the thing they are denying.

    • flucksy_bango@lemmy.world
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      That’s not ironic. They’re authoritarians. I very much doubt that they’re against forcing people to be collectivists.