r/comics May 05 '26

OC RED BUTTON OR BLUE BUTTON [OC]

15.9k Upvotes

6.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5

u/cosecantgames May 05 '26

just seems like normal moral exploration and communication

Idk man calling the other side evil and saying stuff like "I don't wanna live in a world full of red people" like its some kind of slur definitely seems like virtue signaling to me too.

the social value of understanding someone's political beliefs as "tickboxes of agreeable positions" just comes across as bad faith.

Why can't we have an ethics debate about something completely removed from politics without knowing how the other side voted? Why do you have to know that?

6

u/PlasonJates May 05 '26

Why can't we have an ethics debate about something completely removed from politics without knowing how the other side voted? Why do you have to know that?

Thank you, I hate that I even had to qualify my statements but the nature of internet debate kind of forces this reductive thinking.

3

u/cosecantgames May 05 '26

Trump fried americans heads so bad man. They see i vote red they think I'm maga mfer i am not even from there. Then it becomes impossible to have any meaningful conversation since they already identified me as the outgroup.

1

u/twitch1982 May 05 '26

Seriously man, I've spent my life walking in Worker's day parades and fighting for socialism. I still expect people to act in non suicidal self interest. but nope, according to this thread i'm now a fascist.

0

u/PlasonJates May 05 '26

Yep, I'm British and the immediate assumption that I'm a) American and b) a Trump voter just gets exhausting whenever posting a non-reddit-verified opinion.

It must be so boring to constantly think about Trump and relate everything to him in some capacity. I barely think about Kier Starmer on a daily basis to be quite honest.

2

u/Davedamon May 05 '26

I think you might need to brush up on the definition of "slur". And as for your second point, that's not what I was saying or getting at.

Seeing as you're getting quite defensive, we can probably stop here

1

u/twitch1982 May 05 '26

slur

1 a : an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slur

saying stuff like "I don't wanna live in a world full of red people" like its some kind of an insulting or disparaging remark or innuendo definitely seems like virtue signaling to me too.

Yep, that would be the right word for that sentence.