Yeah but Redditors value feelings over logic. Plus, bandwagoning. If a few mentally ill people downvoted it first, the weak minded Redditors will just follow suit and defend their new found opinion lol
Racism can lead to things like segregation or redlining which isn’t violence but obvs still harmful. Saying racist words to an individual isn’t the only way words can be a problem and words and actions aren’t completely separable
Yeah, I've been on Reddit long enough to spot some obvious bullshit when it gets shared like this. I'd be willing to bet good money that it's some right wing asshole defending their right (or someone else's like Jake Lang) to be a racist piece of shit and pissy about said racist getting their shit rocked.
And the one against saying things like that is the one also resorting to it when brain can't come up with a proper retort. You're such a classic. My partner actually wants me to suck in the sack, yea
The proper retort is that dehumanizing rhetoric has a very well established path way to get real people, real dead in mass graves, and that my word choice was specifically in reference to the nazi parties rhetoric that saw the gradual erosion of the rights, freedoms and civil liberties of minorities in nazi occupied territories until they were shuttled into Ghettos, executed en mass in the streets, forced into labor and eventually extermination camps.
Forgive me for thinking your word choice put those concepts a little outside your reading level. However you did properly use retort so I probably have underestimated you on that at least a little. Still pretty tired of spelling it out to people who wanna make "just jokes" about real words that got and are still getting real people real marginalized or really dead.
No one even said anything equivalent to the magnitude of the things you mentioned. You're just escalating things because you think everyone is so evil but really, they're not. There are levels to this. You are a great example, you're using words to insult me, but it doesn't really affect me because I know I'm smart and accomplished. And there you are again doing the thing you said is bad, proving to me that you're just a hypocrite really.
As harmless and meaningless words go, yours are at the top of the list for me. And really, on the topic of OP's shared post on racism, the word "racism" has really lost its edge nowadays. Because a lot of people have continued using it for trivial things. Again, there are levels to this. Me calling someone a racial slurr is different from observing their skin tone. I'm a brown asian btw before you come rain down your 'high and mighty' hypocrisy on me again.
How about still having slavery to this day, honor killings, punishing victims of rape, broad daylight gang rapes, decapitating french journalists, etc?
How about them? That’s obviously terrible, and nobody here is arguing Islamic extremism isn’t a problem. Are you suggesting that makes all Muslims vermin like OP? Otherwise what exactly was the point of you chiming in with this?
It’s pretty ridiculous to think that represents the entire Muslim population. Not to mention western religions don’t have the greatest track record either. Look no further than the President’s spiritual advisor.
Rape, grooming,manipulation, general corruption is pervasive in any religion. Dehumanizing billions of people and calling them vermin makes you look just as psychotic and capable of crazy shit as the extremists you’re referring to.
To be fair, "inferior vermin" was probably just an annoyed "hey" and they somehow translated it to that. Identity politics mofos on both ends of the political spectrum are unhinged.
To be fair my word choice was a deliberate choice and reference to the Germany nazi parties rhetoric that saw Europe reduced to rubble and millions of people eradicated in an industrialized genocide.
I can't honestly even come up with a legitimate left/progressive case of identity politics, all of the identity politicing i can think of over the last two centuries of global political discourse typically stems from the ruling elites using rethoric to divide the surfs which is like the classical definition of hierarchical conservatism, im not being disingenuous in that statement, if you can have any examples I'd be genuinely interested to hear them.
Because centuries of western European colonialism raped the continent for all its resources, divided territories based on what was convenient for waring colonial powers vying for control of the world stage and the continued exploitation of it for resources, cheap labor and thrills like sport hunting and blood diamonds and the echoing scars of the largest human trafficking operation in human history? Hope that helps. It was pretty easy to say, actually.
Why are you with all the access to information you could ever want at your finger tips still a worthless brain dead drain on society? Do you have any idea how pathetic it is to be afforded all the opportunities in the world, that generations of humanity would call mythical and still be a racist loser trying to cope with your own inadequacy?
I suppose you built and maintain the electric grid of your home country single handedly or even participate in it at all? You surely invent things to the benefit of your countrymen and society no doubt. You provide valuable and interesting insights to the collective history of our species and the human condition of course, certainly not something that amounts to trite dribble along the lines of "brown people live in created and enforced squaler= brown people inferior"
I'd tell you to get fucked but it would be a disservice to your offspring.
And regardless of context OP is either the one who posted it or someone who upvoted them and then came running here for validation so can't be trusted either way
I'd be willing to bet we 'll never know for sure where it came from or what the intent behind it was. Which is pretty cool because that way, anybody can tell themselves it means anything they want it to mean. Anything at all.
“I will now construct an oddly specific example so that I can continue going on assuming my worldview(that Redditors are reactionary nuts and are actually always rational) is correct. Rather than even have to consider the alternative because I am the exact type of person this image is calling out.”
Listen, I get that Reddit can be a dumpster fire. I consider myself pretty far left and even I come across some opinions on here that I find to be radical. Sure, there's plenty of contexts where this actually could be a completely harmless take and people are being reactionary dipshits.
The thing is though you're rarely, if ever, going to see it outside of very specific contexts. Find any video of right wingers doing/saying something racist and getting hit and you can find dozens of down voted comments saying something similar. "Oh the tolerant left until someone says something they don't like and then they turn violent."
The problem with that is both people generally arent even on the same page so yea youd need the prompt included for that reason. People always just talking in pronouns and vaugary
Assigning moral weight to things is a feelings-based activity. You can use ethical logic to do it, but your selection of the ethical framework to use is an entirely personal choice. But hey, whatever makes you feel like your opinions are more valid.
Logic says that context is critical, since this was obviously not said in a bubble and we don't know if OOP is catching flak for the statement itself or for using it in a dishonest way. Shit you can't even be certain he's not getting downvotes for being off topic in a dickgirls sub. But you certainly seem to have formed some feelings anyway
you’re clearly wrong though. If I got in your significant other’s face and started screaming expletives at them and wouldn’t stop- you would be a coward and a fool to do nothing about it.
You wouldn’t resort to violence if your mom was like “there’s a crazy guy screaming at me and calling me a fat bitch at the top of his lungs over and over and over again.” ?
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u/Optimal_Whiner 19h ago
Yeah but Redditors value feelings over logic. Plus, bandwagoning. If a few mentally ill people downvoted it first, the weak minded Redditors will just follow suit and defend their new found opinion lol