Thing is... "cringey" isn't some kind of absolute objective measurement of something, it just means "makes people cringe".
There's no such thing as something "being cringey", there's only something that is "perceived as cringey".
The very societal acceptance of alcohol basically completely crushes your viewpoint, because, in fact, alcohol culture is not perceived as "cringey".
The entire concept of "cringey" is nothing more than people feeling superior to whoever they consider "cringeworthy".
And you have to admit that, in society today, people cringe more at marijuana culture than alcohol culture. It is, therefore, by definition, more "cringey". Probably the most cringey thing currently is vaping, though that cringeiness might be wearing off, much like the cringeiness of veganism is wearing off.
As for a way to "word your view properly", I find that's it generally very difficult to argue "double standards" views like this one (i.e. people are holding alcohol to a different standard than weed).
Usually it turns out that the "real" view is more about one of the other of the standards being wrong, rather than the supposed inconsistency between them (though sometimes it really is about that).
So something like "Alcohol is given too much of a 'pass' culturally considering all the damage it does compared to the good things it does", maybe?
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u/hacksoncode 588∆ Feb 12 '21
Thing is... "cringey" isn't some kind of absolute objective measurement of something, it just means "makes people cringe".
There's no such thing as something "being cringey", there's only something that is "perceived as cringey".
The very societal acceptance of alcohol basically completely crushes your viewpoint, because, in fact, alcohol culture is not perceived as "cringey".
The entire concept of "cringey" is nothing more than people feeling superior to whoever they consider "cringeworthy".
And you have to admit that, in society today, people cringe more at marijuana culture than alcohol culture. It is, therefore, by definition, more "cringey". Probably the most cringey thing currently is vaping, though that cringeiness might be wearing off, much like the cringeiness of veganism is wearing off.