Stuff like "stupid, idiot, moron, dumb," you know the ones. If you’re insulting someone for their shitty garbage beliefs and all you can manage to come up with is ways to insult their intelligence, appearance, or other aspect about them that has nothing to do with their cruelty and shittyness, you should maybe reevaluate.

Just saw a thread on here where a user was stubbornly refusing to adjust their language when another user politely pointed out that it was harmful to our comrades as well, and the person refusing was massively upvoted and the comrade trying to explain why it was harmful was downvoted. Thought we were better than that

I'm not calling anyone out, just wanted to make a post explaining my feelings on it and that when stuff like that happens (not the intelligence based insults, I know its hard to switch, but getting insulted for asking people to avoid them) it hurts and makes me feel less welcome here </3

Using words like “You’re being ignorant” or “That’s a cruel belief” is actually more effective than just going “lmao idiot”.

If those are the words you actually mean to convey I'd say use them instead :)

Edit: if the reception this post got isn't a good proof that this is something this community needs to grapple with, I don't know what is.

  • Graphite22 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    That quoted phrase and subreddit in particular kills me inside. It feels good to have a chuckle at a glance. It feels even better to point it out yourself in the moment.

    We know what having “master race” rhetoric leads to. We try not to talk about it as much here and in other spaces because it’s dark and utterly depressing. We just know. We fight it to our best abilities. If mocking some of these people is an effective measure then so be it.

    I just hate the feeling moments after. I mocked someone for their outward appearance at the end of it. Like I know that I’m contrasting their beliefs but it still doesn’t make it feel any better. I never wanted to hurt someone for something they cannot control. I know they can control their beliefs and attitude but at the end of the day their appearance is coming into play no matter what.

    kinda just venting and screaming into the void of a random thread ty for reading