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Re:Weirdos in the depression by dijit on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:18AM (#23402520)
Ugly and Horrible.

People will find any excuse to be cunts to each other and feel entitled to do so.

Sometimes it feels like nobody is following the cardinal rule: be excellent to each other.

Re:Weirdos in the depression by firethief on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:35PM (#23406164)
Could we maybe choose less sexist insults in the thread on acceptance?
Re:Weirdos in the depression by dijit on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:56PM (#23406467)
Don’t be a dick.
Re:Weirdos in the depression by c22 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:22PM (#23408177)
Sure, but everybody has an asshole.
Re:Weirdos in the depression by dijit on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @04:29PM (#23408262)
Could we maybe choose less ableist insults in the thread on acceptance?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperforate_anus

Notably; this kind of pedantry is problematic, nobody thinks of gender when genitalia is used as an insult. Obviously insults are designed to offend; but adding additional meaning and then attacking the faux meaning is not meaningful.

This sort of behaviour fuels anti-liberal rhetoric; as it does nothing to prevent actual sexism it’s just people attacking a straw man at the expense of well meaning people who used some word of the month which has been deemed “troublesome”.

If I had led with “dick” as the insult I’m fairly certain it wouldn’t have been called out in such a way.

False arguments serve only to “beat” other people so you may feel superior for a moment, but they push others to conservatism for being attacked for innocuous commentary.

This is a problem because the conservatives are very effectively using the snobbery of some on the “left” to win people over and putting back liberal causes by decades in some cases. Leading to things like Trump - and the senate being stacked with republicans.

Let’s go after actual issues.

Re:Weirdos in the depression by Apocryphon on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @02:34PM (#23406992)
Maybe the poster is Australian.
Re:Weirdos in the depression by 082349872349872 on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @08:26AM (#23402574)
I've heard that Jedi is an official response in Oz, but is there anywhere one can claim "Bill & Ted-ism" as a religion?
Re:Weirdos in the depression by sneak on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:45AM (#23403259)
Being excellent to others, in my book, means giving people the benefit of the doubt and not presuming that they will find any excuse to be entitled cunts to others.

In my experience, most people are not like that. There are, of course, self-righteous jerks everywhere, but in every society I find them to be a small minority.