Exactly why I don't use it. Connotations are important. But even if I'm saying something negative, just using the shorthand "Tumblr" doesn't really have that many negative connotations other than that Kex doesn't particularly feel like specifying the broad, amorphous, unnamed Tumblr faction he's referring to today, but that he's pretty sure that the people he's talking to know he's talking about the same unnamed group that he always does.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
All my friends are assholes already, it's not like much has changed after they spent time over there. They just became more irritable.
You need to trust people to find the right way, whatever that is. Do I know what that is? No, because I'm a goddamn fool. And neither do you, and you're no fool.
Most of the time, as long as they're not harming people too badly, whatever they are is what they need to be right now. And they'll change in time.
SJW is basically the same as political correctness in that it started use as leftists criticizing other leftists for being a bit nasty but then got co-opted by rightists who find leftism itself offensive
SJW is basically the same as political correctness in that it started use as leftists criticizing other leftists for being a bit nasty but then got co-opted by rightists who find leftism itself offensive
That's a really good comparison, although it's interesting because it's a term that was also claimed by the people it was talking about. (I'm guessing "warrior" was really sarcastic originally.)
Oddly enough, the first time I heard it, it was "SJA" (Social Justice Asshole) which rather gets the point across.
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
The only thing worse than people who self-identify as "SJW" is people who self-identify as "anti-SJW"
Kankri is a weird case I think because I've met many people who could be described as "SJWs" and none of them are like Kankri. Hussie tends to start by parodying a concept and then go off in a completely different direction than the initial idea (see: Problem Sleuth, where the shallowness of the parody is half the joke)
I think the bits where Kankri goes off on Mituna for not being a "model minority" so to speak are probably the most solid as far as "nasty SJ behavior" goes
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
The thing I think Hussie nailed as far as Kankri goes is the way he accidentally insults marginalized people by acting as though they can't speak for themselves
I don't think Andrew's weird approach to parody is a bad thing, but all the "bad SJWs" I've encountered emphasized the latter half of passive aggression to the almost full exclusion of the former, whereas Kankri is... if anything, like, a shitty white male feminist I guess? He used the terminology of Tumblr but his character is more the acoustic guitar college sensitive dude than fourteen year old who doesn't know how to contextualize newly understood facts of the world. I mean, fundamental to the toxicity of the environment stems from mob psychology, confrontational mindsets, dogpiling, all things resulting from directionless multitudes rather than the isolated pretension that Kankri exhibits. A few of his more specific, on the nose traits were spot on but overall I'm not sure I'd say he's an accurate parody so much as an interesting character in his own right.
I did that thing I do where something gets dense, so I skim through it for a while, and then I really lose track of what's happening so I just kinda stop.
a fairly run-of-the-mill fashion blog that had been following my personal blog started following my porn blog and liking stuff way back in the archives
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
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
It's one of those challenging reading white as default things. The sort of thing that gets introduced when readers are so used to white as default that even when someone is explicitly not white in text, it gets glossed over.
potter being indian isn't like some huge abrogation of the books. as far as i recall, the important things about his ancestry are that his mom's parents were muggles and he's descended from some european type asshole or another. mom can be indian or something, bam.
like it's not really important that he be welsh or whatever
potter being indian isn't like some huge abrogation of the books. as far as i recall, the important things about his ancestry are that his mom's parents were muggles and he's descended from some european type asshole or another. mom can be indian or something, bam.
like it's not really important that he be welsh or whatever
Well, Lily was described as red-haired, green-eyed, and pale, so...
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That shit happens a lot on Tumblr
Did it get THAT BAD?
I mean, a case COULD be made for Harry Potter being Jewish (Radcliffe is), but making him Indian?
I get that you want representation, and it's not like this actively harms anyone, I just find it confusing.
like it's not really important that he be welsh or whatever
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead