Shit leaves a bad taste in my mouth every time I see someone post a brainlet meme. Making sure I’m correct in my gut or if I’m being a ‘scold’
? Elaborate. I’ll take scold I guess over making fun of disabled friends. If that’s truly the case
No animosity towards you btw, just being honest
Scolding will be annoying even if it's the right thing to do. If you can, find a jokey way to scold someone and keep the mood up.
I don’t think I’ve ever really said anything about it. I just choose not to post the pictures where it appears like the Wojack has Down syndrome. That, to me is kind of meanspirited.
Honestly I've been trying to move away from calling people I hate demeaning words into just wishing them a very bloody and painful death
in robloxBut stupid is acceptable. Plus stupidity is letting people of the hook: they either don’t think or are evil
sure people can go overboard, I just think intellectual angle is exceedingly charitable to what people try to portray. Plus lame is like og old word, and have lost all its meaning.
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Drooling imagery seems much more cruel than words
What exactly makes the dirtbag left, “dirtbag”
https://i.imgur.com/8R9xGpL.jpg
middle class failson redditors are baffled by the concept of solidarity with the working class and only supporting aggression against class traitors. The real reason these /r/stupidpol losers are obsessed with the PMC is they are the same class position as Liz Warren, you know, nerds who hate stupidity
dirtbag left
IMO any group that is "dirtbag left" quickly either becomes only dirtbag, or only left.
it's literally the pipeline that everyone talks about, many of us needed the "dirtbag left" as an entry point (or a middle point) and moved through it to something else, which is the point. There isn't and shouldn't be an inherent appeal to keeping the aesthetic around in the long term, these things come and go organically.
We have to keep pipelining people left somehow. If it's still useful in pipelining people left we can't be too quick to dismiss it.
If you’re over 30 and still try to refer to yourself as ‘Dirt-bag left’, I honestly don’t know how to help you.
Edit: not you specifically, just in general
If it’s cringe to make fun of someone for being gay, why is it funny to imply someone is gay?
If it’s cringe to make fun of someone for being a woman, why is it funny to imply someone is a woman?
If it’s cringe to make fun of someone for being a different race, why is it funny to imply someone is a different race?
Etc etc
Is brainlet the one where the guy's brain is so huge that he's sitting on it? Or is it one of the more... unsavoury ones? Like the one where the guy's head caved in.
The latter - “let” is a diminutive suffix used to show that something is smaller than usual, in this case the brain.
Never sat well with me as I’ve worked with people with learning disabilities in the past. The point of the meme is to say “you’re so stupid/ignorant you basically have/you’re no better than those with a learning disability” but in my experience, people with such disabilities aren’t stupid they just take longer to grasp things (yes, I know it’s a spectrum). One of my friends at Uni had a visible learning disability and graduated first class for fucks sake and they looked and talked like you might expect somebody with such a disability would but you’d actually need to talk with them to challenge your own preconceptions and ignorance on the matter.
Anyway, my point is if you’re going to mock somebody’s ideas there’s no need to take a swing at an unrelated group of people. Disabled people of all kind already have enough of an image problem and the least we can do is not actively contribute to that.
And just to be clear, calling somebody “stupid” is not ableist in of itself. It’s that and reductively linking it to a disability which is the issue.
It’s the word and the pictures people post of the wojack that appears to have Down syndrome that bothers me. Seems cruel, It’s meanspirited out there these days though
On the one hand it is abelist. On the other hand language is an evolving dance and those people are idiots.
Now, there is a better way to describe tham than an old diagnosis for a kind of birth defect. However, I nevered learned it and I can't think if of an elegant way to express that idea in concersation that doesn't just use a diffrent ablist term we didn't realize was an old diagnosis like moron.
Here's a list of alternatives you can use. It was shared with me and really helped me cut down/out ableist language.
stop whining about every single minor thing, christ. it just looks pathetic. it’s not altruistic. it’s not being a good leftist. it’s being a joyless fuck.
cognitive dissonance level: redditor
Do you find joy in calling people idiots? What joy is there? Like explain it to me, at worst it’s minor inconvenience of trying to make degrading comments more inventive. Or just call cruel people what they are, wish them happy lamposting oscillations, like the language is big
Could call them imperialist pigdogs :kim: or bootlickers, or sell outs, which much closely describes liberals, no? There is excremental angle as always for shitbirds.
You ever realized you really are what you’re calling most people? You must have been the kid who thought it was funny to make fun of the special Ed kids in school, and then proceeded to get shoved into lockers by the rest of the school for being a dick
n-no u r!
Sweet comeback. I like how your response to vaguely ableist language is specifically ableist insults.
It’s quite a bit better than the weird turds you’ve been sliding towards everybody trying to pass it off as something worth reading.
You realize I’ve specified the cartoon Wojack about 6 different times now?
Jesus Christ
A cartoon depicting people with Down syndrome as something to be made fun of or laugh about is objectively bad
Cool but why are wojack cartoons bad, but saying that I must be mentally disabled with words isn’t?
Calling me an idiot? Do you feel warm and fuzzy inside now? Or maybe it was unproductive?
Did you perform socially necessary labor? Have you convinced me of anything new?
Why is the meme with the Wojack appearing to have Down syndrome funny to you?
You realize there’s variations the meme right? Quit trying to justify that shit, it’s obviously meant to portray someone mentally handicapped.
Saying that the Wojack meme that apparently has Down syndrome is a bad thing?
Yeah, but the alternative is transforming into a human filled with love and compassion.
Assuming that it is ableist, is there a level of absurdity and abstraction from real human experiences that you could push a joke like this to that would make it okay?
Sarcastically showing the person with the bad take as a gigantic brain is better than implying they must have a disability. Also, just calling it a shit take is uncontroversial.
Why is making fun of people with Down syndrome okay? I’m not talking about the word in and of itself, I’m talking about the meme pictures that often accompany it with the Wojack appearing to have Down syndrome.
Fair difference between that and telling someone Thai food is ‘cultural appropriation’
What have people with intellectual disabilities done that they get to be the butt of our jokes
I didn’t say calling people idiots was making fun of Down syndrome ‘you fucking idiot’. Get the fuck out of my face
one of the things that caused r/cth to be so active
DSA failson engagement is praxis
I’m not talking about the word itself, I have specified that a few times now.
? will into existence? I'm pretty sure we have plenty of ND comrades made uncomfortable by the(litterally co opted reactionary 4 chan) meme. Even with the context changed.
Why do you keep posting this dumbass nonsense.
A cartoon making fun of people with Down syndrome is objectively bad, child. I’m sorry me saying that makes you feel funny. If you think being a leftist solely involved being crude towards the disabled, I don’t know what to tel you
I never said anything about class consciousness or cultural appropriation
