Sneaker culture sucks and its stupid
Sneaker culture sucks and its stupid
"Why yes, my overpriced fake leather nostolgiabait shoes that have nothing in it, dont come in wide, and gives people pla tar fasciitis is muxh better than the other overpriced fake leather hipsterbait shoe!!!!"
And then kids will literally screech in the damn store if they dont get their shitty nike shoe, becayse its about the NAME of the BRAND!!!
FUCK OFF SNEAKERHEADS YOU ALL SUCK!!!
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Counter point: absolutely fucking not and getting to that level of tone policing where you can't even express negative emotions without tap dancing around an ever expanding list of harmless insults has killed other similar spaces.
If I can't call chuds fucking dumbasses what are we even doing here
Listen, it doesn't hurt to avoid ableist language. You can absolutely still insult someone without it. "Dumbass" does not have to be a load bearing part of your vocabulary.
It does when you're interacting with chuds and liberals regularly.
Skill issue
There's a difference between being rude and being ableist. Why do chuds suck? It isn't because they're not smart, which wouldn't exactly be in their power to change were that the problem.
It's because they're hateful, closed-minded, unwilling to listen, immature, reactionry, cause tangible harm to our comrades, and stand in the way of any progress or revolution. They choose to do these things and can choose to do different things.
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Isn't "harmless insult" like an oxymoron or something
It might be if you’re 4 and someone called you a poopy head
No.
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"Dumb" actually can be argued to be ableist in its etymology since it comes from people who couldn't speak (similar to "Lame"). If anything dumb is worse than stupid is.
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Pretty soon you aren’t going to have an insults except “poopy fucklord” and you will sound like a redditor
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There’s a history of bigotry behind every word in the English language. It’s a language made by and for bigots. A language forged in the fire of colonial world domination and liberal rationalism that justified it. I’m sorry but you will never escape using words that have a history of bigotry behind them if you speak English and live in the west. If you keep cutting out words you will just be left stunted and unable to communicate without sounding like a total dork and still be speaking the language of colonizers anyway, just speaking oddly.
To be clear, this isn’t a carte blanche to just drop whatever slurs you want. You obviously still should be mindful to not be insulting and offensive and gross. However, where are the massive populations of people who actually, really think that “stupid” is akin to the n-word or something and a slur? Nobody actually thinks that.
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The issue isn’t the hisotry of the word so much as the current implications.
I agree with this, but you don't.
I don’t feel bad at the prospect on losing insults with a history of bigotry behind them
So which is it? Does historical etymology matter or does current use and meaning? Again, the vast majority of people do not find "Stupid" to be a bigoted phrase associated bigotry. The current, descriptivist definition in how it's actually used is not bigoted so you criticized it on it's history. Then you say the history doesn't matter but how it's used?
There's a history of bigotry behind every word in the English language. It's a language made by and for bigots.
You obviously still should be mindful to not be insulting and offensive and gross. Oh cool we agree then
It is probably better in the long run if we develop ways of expressing ourselves without insults tbh
It'd be even better if we only ate cotton candy and could teleport
Insults are as old as language and aren't going anywhere
"You can't do anything if you can't do everything"
You sure sound like a chud, or a redditor.
Yes, that would be better we should be working to that.
Well, I appreciate the sentiment even if others don't and they do raise concerns which need to be addressed. In linguistics you can do a "linguistic corpus analysis" which is sorta seeing historically how language was used. If it's unambiguously used towards say disenfranchised individuals, or towards a group of people who are the ire at the time (think muslims or anyone from south asia or the middle east post 9/11, if there's a huge spike in usage with sentences including the word 'muslim' or 'terrorist', etc.) I think there's a good argument to be made. Otherwise it seems difficult to convince others it's a good idea.
Idk that sounds like a stupid idea
There's thoughtlessly using a minor ableist term, and then there's doubling down and defending it's use when asked not to.
We need another purge. Federation has been a disaster for our site culture.
Grimble is a 3 year user. I'm a 6-month user. Again, you are confused and you say stupid here:
https://hexbear.net/comment/3420829
The issue seems to be the rejection of your control. You demand people obey your hypocritical unrealistic rule that you don't even obey, then when they have any issue with you it's "doubling down" and "reactionary". Maybe people just don't like your inconsistent policing of them with these unrealistic demands for things that aren't reactionary and everyone here does constantly.
This is the opposite of a genius idea.
Sneakrrs are all silly billy gooses
We kind of already had a struggle session about it here and most people agreed that kind of language does not cross the line
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that would be double plus unsmart
"Don't be ableist"
What are your thoughts on calling people ‘Einstein’
