It's OK to not be a moralfag, of course. You could be a moralstraight, or a moralace or something. In which case you wouldn't use moralfag as an insult.
But I can't see any reason a person with any sense of decency would use moralfag as an insult or criticism. Its purpose is to shame people who display empathy and who care about anything besides their own amusement.
It's OK to not be a moralfag, of course. You could be a moralstraight, or a moralace or something. In which case you wouldn't use moralfag as an insult.
But I can't see any reason a person with any sense of decency would use moralfag as an insult or criticism. Its purpose is to shame people who display empathy and who care about anything besides their own amusement.
it's really best not to take whatever terms /pol/ uses seriously
and yes, this is all pretty much only /pol/'s doing
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
But I can't see any reason a person with any sense of decency would use moralfag as an insult or criticism. Its purpose is to shame people who display empathy and who care about anything besides their own amusement.
Equates? No, but having morals is about doing the right thing, and caring about other people is right. Caring for the feelings of others is moral, and is the kind of thing I most often see 'moralfag' used to shut down.
I think I heard about "moralfag" as a term before /pol/ was a thing, though I'd believe you if you said that the people who still use it mostly migrated there.
More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
I am too high for this maybe. >_> What I mean is that there is always more to morality than just caring about people's feelings. I won't believe that anyone with a sense of moral right and wrong only cares about feelings. There is also that people can have wildly different ideas of immutable right and wrong, at the most basic level.
I think I heard about "moralfag" as a term before /pol/ was a thing, though I'd believe you if you said that the people who still use it mostly migrated there.
I would like to say here that I think the original point of the insult was not that the recipient was moral, but that they were moralising. There is a major distinction to be made between a moral individual and one who wants others to see them as moral.
But then, the people who tend to use that kind of verbiage don't always seem to see the difference.
^ /pol/ is the board that uses it the most now, but I think it started as a /b/ thing about newbies who wanted the hackers there to be their private army.
Sure, /pol/ is ridiculous and shouldn't be taken seriously unless you want to feel bad (even if a good enough amount of it is serious), but I still don't see any point in using a term that would associate me with 4chan (or at least, that part of it). Moralfag, as I have seen it used, is simply for mocking a nebulous group of people that care about social issues. Whether or not it meant something different from how it's used now is something I can't bring myself to care about. I mean if I wanted to call someone moralizing, I'd just say so.
Every time a board on 4chan does something offensive, apologists crawl out of the woodwork to be like "but it's not ALL of 4chan!"
which is true, but that's also true whenever Reddit or Tumblr do something stupid, it's not a phenomenon unique to one website, and there's no real point in pointing that out, it adds nothing to the conversation.
It's because the assumption that /b/, /v/ and /pol/ are representative of 4chan as a whole is much more widespread than the assumption that all of Reddit is r/atheism or all of Tumblr is Your Fave Is Problematic - although I have certainly seen all of those attitudes.
Eh, I have nothing to win here, but I don't find it completely incomprehensible. People who go on the tamer boards and like them feel uncomfortable being associated with the nastier stuff and want to make a point of that. I get that.
Every time a board on 4chan does something offensive, apologists crawl out of the woodwork to be like "but it's not ALL of 4chan!"
which is true, but that's also true whenever Reddit or Tumblr do something stupid, it's not a phenomenon unique to one website, and there's no real point in pointing that out, it adds nothing to the conversation.
I'm not sure if this is at me, or at the conversation in general, admittedly. Since I pretty much agree with you and Sredni on this.
Every time a board on 4chan does something offensive, apologists crawl out of the woodwork to be like "but it's not ALL of 4chan!"
which is true, but that's also true whenever Reddit or Tumblr do something stupid, it's not a phenomenon unique to one website, and there's no real point in pointing that out, it adds nothing to the conversation.
I'm not sure if this is at me, or at the conversation in general, admittedly. Since I pretty much agree with you and Sredni on this.
no, just something I've observed on tumblr.
I unfollowed several people today. I don't need to hear about how your precious waifu threads on /a/ don't have anything to do with the meanies on /b/.
speaking of anime can someone explain the virulent hatred people have for the new Sailor Moon anime, like gosh.
Every time a board on 4chan does something offensive, apologists crawl out of the woodwork to be like "but it's not ALL of 4chan!"
which is true, but that's also true whenever Reddit or Tumblr do something stupid, it's not a phenomenon unique to one website, and there's no real point in pointing that out, it adds nothing to the conversation.
I'm not sure if this is at me, or at the conversation in general, admittedly. Since I pretty much agree with you and Sredni on this.
no, just something I've observed on tumblr.
I unfollowed several people today. I don't need to hear about how your precious waifu threads on /a/ don't have anything to do with the meanies on /b/.
speaking of anime can someone explain the virulent hatred people have for the new Sailor Moon anime, like gosh.
Guys weren't allowed to go to the premiere without a woman with them.
Eh, I have nothing to win here, but I don't find it completely incomprehensible. People who go on the tamer boards and like them feel uncomfortable being associated with the nastier stuff and want to make a point of that. I get that.
Yeah, i get that too.
TBH though i see people generalizing about tumblr and reddit just as often
and before that Deviantart and Livejournal and Myspace
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I said it elsewhere, but I think it bears repeating: I don't really understand how anyone can gain pleasure from trolling Tumblr.
I mean, Tumblr in general overreacts even to the most innocuous of things, so posting genuinely offensive stuff and watching them freak out doesn't seem like it'd be all that satisfying?
From what little I've heard about the new Sailor Moon, it seems it's gone back to the willowy, Amano-ish art the manga used, instead of the "chubby Usagi" look of the 1990s series, and that's bothering a lot of people (who, I suppose, like curvy blonde girls).
im gonna work out, learn to run fast and eat things that i catch in the woods including tourists
there's gonna be a BASED ON TRUE EVENTS horror film about the fag who went into the woods and ate any people who dared enter his domain
and at the end of the movie the intrepid cops are gonna be like "what drove him over the edge" and they'll see that tumblr post and they will understand
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Because transphobia? Lol I dunno, it's not hard to throw shit out.
I am a moralfag, I guess.
It's OK to not be a moralfag, of course. You could be a moralstraight, or a moralace or something. In which case you wouldn't use moralfag as an insult.
But I can't see any reason a person with any sense of decency would use moralfag as an insult or criticism. Its purpose is to shame people who display empathy and who care about anything besides their own amusement.
because tumblr are always on their period you see
^^ Well sure, but regardless, disparaging other people for caring about right and wrong is not a nice thing to do.
In my experience it's almost always used by bullies to shut down people who call them out for going too far.
As in, lol you're telling me not to be harsh? Moralfag.
which is true, but that's also true whenever Reddit or Tumblr do something stupid, it's not a phenomenon unique to one website, and there's no real point in pointing that out, it adds nothing to the conversation.
There is no reason to defend 4chan's reputation, is what I am getting at.
I unfollowed several people today. I don't need to hear about how your precious waifu threads on /a/ don't have anything to do with the meanies on /b/.
speaking of anime can someone explain the virulent hatred people have for the new Sailor Moon anime, like gosh.
my best guess would be that people are fuckin lame
which
no? It doesn't.
TBH though i see people generalizing about tumblr and reddit just as often
and before that Deviantart and Livejournal and Myspace
See: Swimming Anime, Bronies insisting MLP is for grown men, any and all discussions of videogame genres, Twilight
^ v tru
but even in those circumstances, 'moralfag' is an ugly word with ugly associations
broadens the mind, gets you speculating about things you might not otherwise consider
gonna do it
there's gonna be a BASED ON TRUE EVENTS horror film about the fag who went into the woods and ate any people who dared enter his domain
and at the end of the movie the intrepid cops are gonna be like "what drove him over the edge" and they'll see that tumblr post and they will understand