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Have you made any poignant commentary on the recent election in the U.S.? Do you have a good response to liberals who are upset with the results or process of the election? Have you written or seen something as a comment reply/post that you think has standalone value? Did you see a new take or analysis you hadn’t previously considered?
Whether it’s a long idea with lots of context, or a short and sweet one liner, we want those thoughts aggregated here. This post is intended to be a resource for comrades to draw from when having actual discussions outside of Hexbear both online or IRL regarding the election.
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Wanna know something interesting?
That creator has ADHD and they suspect that they have undiagnosed autism. ADHD comes with auditory processing disorder at a really high prevalence rate (~40%, from memory). Autism and auditory processing disorder occur so frequently together that they might as well be considered a package deal, although I'm not aware of any studies that have looked into prevalence of auditory processing disorder because it's almost like looking for tiredness in insomniacs.
People went after them in part for saying Kamala wrong, claiming the way they said it was racist. Thing about auditory processing disorder is that it can cause people to mispronounce words.
This person actually mispronounces things fairly regularly. There's a video where they mispronounce about 3 words in the span of 30 seconds. Not in an egregious way but enough that it pings my decidedly unexpert radar. So as far as I'm concerned there's a lot of evidence for them likely having auditory processing disorder. (Armchair diagnosis of people especially remotely via media is a loathsome habit but I'm okay with breaking personal policy in this instance.) Meanwhile evidence of their being racist is nonexistent.
I did drag one person who came for them asking them if there was any circumstances under which mispronouncing Kamala's name would be permissible to them. They said no, of course (which is, ironically, racist to expect that everyone knows Kamala Harris and knows how to pronounce her name correctly). So I figured to fight fire with fire and if baseless accusations of racism are okay then I'm well within my rights to accuse this dingdong with being ableist. I'm sure that they didn't consider that disability might be the cause for mispronouncing Kamala's name but then ignoring the challenges that people with disability face is inherently ableist anyway. So I levelled that accusation against them and gave the reasoning for the likelihood of the creator having auditory processing disorder and how this would explain a mispronunciation of an unusual word like an uncommon name such as Kamala. Of course, immediately they accuse me of making a diagnosis.
The exchange we had didn't prove anything besides the fact that this type of person operates without any semblance of good faith.
Did I bait them? Sure. Was there going to be any personal expense whatsoever for them to make an admission like "Well I guess I didn't think about how a person who survived a stroke might have a good reason for why they mispronounce names"? Nope.
Just curious, are you talking about Madeline Pendleton?
The one and the same
Forgive me for not understanding, but is that a yes?
Forgive me for being an unnecessarily verbose dork. It is.
It’s ok I’m sure it was clear and im the one being stupid so no worries lmao
Marxist understand it's useless to view politics through identity alone.
On one hand, I thinking trying to "get" people on pronouncing her name wrong is just a way to do a gotcha because there's nothing else. On the other hand, I do recognize pronouncing names correctly is important. But the most important thing is if people correct themselves after being corrected then that's the end of the conversation. You're not automatically racist unless you're intentionally mispronouncing or butchering it completely to be funny.
I was honestly proud of the TikTok leftist community for rallying behind Madeline like that. It turned into some reallybgood discourse, and helped root out a lot of bad people from my FYP
Same here. There's always room for one more when it comes to my TikTok blocklist.