I know it's the internet, and fucking discord to boot, like seriously where is our burning Clive? But I'm not gonna go outside to yell at people about weird books, so unless any of you knows of an awesome book club near me or a forum online or something, we're stuck with this. And yes, it's the book servers again.
You would think queer spaces might be more accepting of leftist views, 
but I keep getting owned for not licking boots basically. First there was this based classic:
which stemmed from someone really liking the idea of french canadian cyberpunk, surely the apex of liberalism. Aside from that quote in the screenshot I wasn't really rude though, I didn't even swear at em. I got banned essentially for a cross of "omg ur so rude" and "we can do whatever we want" though, which is just as well cause fuck em I guess. You wanna take pride in that identity, seeya nerd.
But just recently I got in all kinds of hot water again for this epic banger:
The context here was just talking about tone tags, and someone else has whined and complained about not wanting to use a reference sheet for tone indicators because they don't know what they mean, lol.
See this isn't like I'm bursting through the wall and saying ANOTHER KKKCRACKA DOWN at grandpa's funeral, I'm not even swearing, it's so much less than that. I'm generally pretty content to let small disagreements slide or whatever, but it's always the most agreeable shit these people decide to attack me on. Like no, I am not gonna back down from saying "canada bad" and I'm not gonna back down from saying "at the point NTs won't even read tone indicators, I don't give a fuck", surely these are like the least offensive positions in the world. How could people take PERSONAL OFFENSE to this shit? And yet.
So I want to ask if there are any more mitigating strategies I can use to not get rekt by angry lib mods? This shit is stressful and exhausting, literally not trying to cause a fight with this stuff. I guess I'm not shocked that libs love tone-policing autistic transfems no matter how fucking nice you are, though =)
What does this mean? Does this mean, like, the game set in Montreal? Or just like a French Canadian perspective on the genre?
Cyberpunk but with Parisian influenced architecture and the poors play hockey
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It's kinda hard to explain, but this person was acting like French Canadians are the most repressed and marginalised minority, Idk. The latter I guess. They are also a big CP2077 fan lol
That doesn't really sound like the apex of liberalism to me tbh and if there's a genre to explore themes like the dynamic of the oppressed oppressor like the French Canadians perceive themselves to be in, I can hardly think of a better one than cyberpunk
Are french canadians actually oppressed by their english speaking counterparts though?
They wanted to form their own nation and were denied by the English-speakers, so, in that sense, sure.
I have trouble with this idea because the french are only in canada due to France wanting to start one of their famously cool colonies. They were settler-colonialists, right?
That's why I called them "oppressed oppressors"
This is weird I don't like this, very strange. I spoke to someone who brought up that Acadians fought alongside indigenous people, but it seems to me they were just in it because the British wanted to wipe em out?
Hate to break it to you, comrade, but it ain't always as clear-cut as we'd like it to be.
I mean I'm aware, but when is "french colonist" ever not code for "complete bastard"? Algeria? French Indochina?
It really seems to me like you're conflating "oppressed" with "good." They can be complete bastards and still be oppressed by other bastards.
I dunno, it's like french is the second language of the entire country? Oppressed because they've been disallowed from becoming their own nation in the midst of Canada(have they?)? It feels very materially different from the "oppressed" you'd use to describe indigenous Canadian populations, I guess, not real comparable...