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You on the same Lemmy as I am?
Yeah I really don’t understand how people have a such a bad experience on here. I think I have had one asshole who argued with me, in over seven months spent here. And even that guy was mostly just condescending as fuck instead of outright throwing insults. Everyone else is just the normal kind of argumentative that I am myself as well.
Yeah honestly the people at Lemmy are mostly great.
I think the difference is that the people on Lemmy seem in general to be smarter than other places, generally people actually seem to want to discuss rather than argue.
Not that there aren’t dumb assholes on Lemmy. I mean, I’m here.
To me it just means people are more eloquent about their transphobia or their rationalization of genocide 🙄
I’ll be damned if I ever hear a slur on here.
ITT: people telling me im lying for some reason?
literally check the modlog. people involve language used against minority groups all the time and unfortunately it gets left up for hours sometimes
edit: genuinely why are people downvoting this lol? proof
Lemmy Pro Tip: After 2 replies you can usually tell if the conversation is going anywhere productive. If it’s not, then tell them as such in your 3rd reply, wish them a pleasant day, and move on with your life.
This is how many conversations with my wife end
Healthy
the two i keep running into are “harm reduction” and “fascism”, but “tautology” had a minute in the sun last week…
this is not an invitation to share your (incorrect) opinion on these terms.
yeah we have had the conversation around harm reduction two or three times you and i lmao
carry on
i like your meme. it’s genuine art.
i know 👍 ty
I’ve not experienced this. I’m not sure why it’s interesting to talk shit this way.
I have someone tagged as ‘argued home v house; is twat’ to remind me they started an argument that boiled down to them not agreeing that a house is equal to a home, and at that point I think I told him to sit on a cucumber, downvotes him, and tagged him so I know never to engage with the twat again.
oh damn. i had a similar conversation! i don’t use whatever app it is that lets you tag people so i don’t do that.
„Why would you use it like that?“
„It made sense to me, sorry if that was wrong.“
Slur
Is how I perceive it.
honestly it can go either way 👍
Why would you think like that? No one on the internet (especially OP) would apologize for potentially being wrong smh.
I’ve seen this without the slur, but it’s still weird that people are out here trying to redefine specific, well-defined, unambiguous, basic, and universal English terms. Not as a metaphor, not even as a bit, or attempted point (luckily, as it wouldn’t have been a good one), just using a term in a way apparently nobody else ever does.
yes! thank you for this analysis.
besides the casual bigotry, the wanton disregard for useful semantics is exactly what i wanted to call out as it seems especially unique to internet spaces.
I was discussing with somebody about privilege IRL. They told me they didn’t believe the word “privilege” existed. I was like do you want to use a different word? They were like no, the word and concept just doesn’t exist.
I’m very sure this person was just an idiot and didn’t have malicious intent. But still, wow.
out of fairness, they might have had malicious intent (edit missed that this was IRL, my bad. this comment probably doesn’t apply to your situation apologies. leaving it up with this disclaimer as i think it’s valuable)
language has a lot of power. the ability to accurately describe one’s condition and identity is absolutely required in order for organization, and therefore change, to happen.
that’s why conservatives get so worked up over gender pronouns and words like “cisgender.” they are well aware that a community that is denied language to describe itself is nothing more than a set of individuals.
if you deny the word “privilege” then you deny by extension the word “unprivileged” and then you are left without a word for the millions of people lacking basic education, income, housing etc to describe themselves.
(im vaguely aware this was the plot to that one george orwell novel)
where’s the 36 page lobg document on linux?
Genocide
