Lemmy Pro Tip: After 2 replies you can usually tell if the conversation is going anywhere productive. If it’s not, then tell them as such in your 3rd reply, wish them a pleasant day, and move on with your life.
I have someone tagged as ‘argued home v house; is twat’ to remind me they started an argument that boiled down to them not agreeing that a house is equal to a home, and at that point I think I told him to sit on a cucumber, downvotes him, and tagged him so I know never to engage with the twat again.
I've seen this without the slur, but it's still weird that people are out here trying to redefine specific, well-defined, unambiguous, basic, and universal English terms. Not as a metaphor, not even as a bit, or attempted point (luckily, as it wouldn't have been a good one), just using a term in a way apparently nobody else ever does.
besides the casual bigotry, the wanton disregard for useful semantics is exactly what i wanted to call out as it seems especially unique to internet spaces.
I was discussing with somebody about privilege IRL. They told me they didn’t believe the word “privilege” existed. I was like do you want to use a different word? They were like no, the word and concept just doesn’t exist.
I’m very sure this person was just an idiot and didn’t have malicious intent. But still, wow.
out of fairness, they might have had malicious intent (edit missed that this was IRL, my bad. this comment probably doesn’t apply to your situation apologies. leaving it up with this disclaimer as i think it’s valuable)
language has a lot of power. the ability to accurately describe one’s condition and identity is absolutely required in order for organization, and therefore change, to happen.
that’s why conservatives get so worked up over gender pronouns and words like “cisgender.” they are well aware that a community that is denied language to describe itself is nothing more than a set of individuals.
if you deny the word “privilege” then you deny by extension the word “unprivileged” and then you are left without a word for the millions of people lacking basic education, income, housing etc to describe themselves.
(im vaguely aware this was the plot to that one george orwell novel)
Everything has happened before, everything will happen again. Shit people aren’t a fault of reddit, or facebook, or whatever will come after lemmy. Shit people will always be.
Comment - (This) would solve a lot of problems for millions of people
Lemmy user - Yes but I’ve thought of an incredibly niche situation where that would negatively affect one person in ten million so you’re just pure unadulterated evil
Yeah I really don’t understand how people have a such a bad experience on here. I think I have had one asshole who argued with me, in over seven months spent here. And even that guy was mostly just condescending as fuck instead of outright throwing insults. Everyone else is just the normal kind of argumentative that I am myself as well.
Yeah honestly the people at Lemmy are mostly great.
I think the difference is that the people on Lemmy seem in general to be smarter than other places, generally people actually seem to want to discuss rather than argue.
Not that there aren’t dumb assholes on Lemmy. I mean, I’m here.
Just a heads up, whoreticulture is going around trying to drum up trans hate by pretending like they are trans and then being an awful person. You may not want to take the bait.
Wow lmao I can’t believe you straight up just believe that, I am guessing you’re a terf too? idk. anyway this is some of the transphobia I was talking about. This user didn’t like what I was saying because I called them out as spouting terf rhetoric, and they started calling me a fake trans person trying to make trans people look bad.
You just called me a terf, which I’m not, for absolutely no reason. So whereas I didn’t actually care before, I’m inclined to believe them now. None of the trans people I know throw around the term “terf” like that at literally anyone.
It was a guess, to which I said “idk”. If you’re this easily swayed, I’m even more inclined to believe you have terf sympathies. If you truly believe I am a fake trans person spreading discontent…
You might “act like an asshole” too if people were spreading hate and misinformation about your marginalized identity that has been politicized and discriminated against increasingly over the past decade. Tone policing isn’t cute.
Why are people on this app/website/whatever so paranoid and dismissive of anyone with a slight disagreement lmao, just because someone isn’t on the same page as you, doesn’t mean they’re an FBI plant. But I guess it’s easier to say that than it is to admit you’re tone-policing a trans person after an encounter with a rampant and overt transphobe.
It’s nice that lemmy is small enough that you start to recognize the troll usernames. I once got FederatingIsTooHard to admit that he was HACKthePrison’s alt, two well known trolls
with full respect, probably not lmao. :) lemmy is small but there’s a lot of diversity of activity going on.
i mean fuck it, your instance name is literally yiffit.net. best not call into question other people’s expression of lived experience without evidence 👍
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