older reddit post [CW: some ableism in the comments] but its hilarious how thoroughly OP was bullied. They also claimed to be a teacher who "works with mental health professionals" so they couldn't possibly be out-of-touch :hasan-ok-dude:

      • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]M
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        1 year ago

        :this: Obviously most people are not acting this freakish but there's enough deeply alienated, cynical. socially maladjusted people around that the story sounds entirely plausible.

          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            That was such bullshit. Chinchzilla is a genuinely kind person and a great poster and did not deserve any of that shit.

          • Hideaway [none/use name]
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            1 year ago

            I ran down that thread pretty far and all I saw was "Do it! They'd love it!"

            Of course the journalist has to write a story about a Twitter thread and put the worst possible face on Americans showing kindness to one another.

            More recently there was a bunch of puritanical zoomers claiming that wanting to fuck your partner was transphobic.

            All I saw was the standard "nobody owes you sex, fuck off incel" discourse, which by now is standard and expected any time a man isn't getting sex from his wife.

            • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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              1 year ago

              Oh no, no, there were thousands of pages of posts calling Chinchzilla a monster for presuming to make Chili for the guys in the next apartment over. I was there. I saw the whole goddamn sordid mess go down. It lasted like a week. Chinch briefly went private. That whole swath of the left twitterati was dragged in to it. it was the dumbest moment in an extremely dumb millennium. I wouldn't have believed the level of self-righteous shitassery people were indulging in to say that making chili for your neighbors was somehow violence if I hadn't seen the posts with my own cursed eyes.

              • Hideaway [none/use name]
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                1 year ago

                Thinking you're owed sex is standard incel psychology, so it's no wonder why people had a huge negative reaction and the man got told to fuck off.

    • W_Hexa_W
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      1 year ago

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        It's Poe's Law in action

        Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine article.

        Nathan Poe, 2005

        There's simply no degree of bizarre anti-social behavior that is so outlandish that no one would ever do it. You'll think you're writing the most over the top, ridiculous, unbelievable, impossible satire of a human being and then the guy at the bar next to you will sigh and with the longest, most tired face say "Yeah, my family is just like that too".

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      1 year ago

      I think it's largely a class thing. The writer thinks that the restaurant owner is lesser than her, so his attempts to be friendly and engender good will are manipulative and, god, i don't even know the right language. Like he should be acting subservient instead of friendly, and treat them in accordance with their station or something? Providing a discount is an insult because it implies she couldn't pay full price? Or it's just good old fashioned racism. I know a lot of people scoff at the idea of racism being directed at non-Anglo white people but it's still a thing. It's not as destructive as racism directed at non-white groups, but there are still plenty of East Coast WASPs who think anyone who can't trace their ancestry back to the battle of Hastings is less human.