It's usually done as a strategy to try to fit in, to be "one of the good ones," or sometimes just self loathing given a signal boost by chuds in the same community.

It's saddening how many people, especially trans people, call themselves d-word-popularized-by-nazis, for example. Or marginalized ethnic group members that use the very slurs that are used to justify putting people like them into camps.

It's fucked up, but I am often at a loss for how to reach those people, or if such a thing is even possible. :doomer:

EDIT: It seems this is important enough to :freeze-gamer: that alt accounts must be mustered to rage at me about it. :jokah-messy:

  • Dryad [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Apergers is in a similar situation, but it’s not acceptable to use as a self-descriptor because it’s original Nazi usage was to actually put people who were labelled with it above other autistic people. So self-identifying as having apergers is like identifying as Aryan.

    As someone with aspergers, I have never heard of this and would absolutely not take someone identifying that way as anything similar to identifying as aryan