*nodding* just like boots, fedoras, engineering degrees,

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how dare you lay this curse upon my home

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you don't frighten me

Everyone in the notes saying "this is a 10k post to me" "posts that have 100k energy" "posts that are 30k to me" or whatever - alright, fine! Put the fuckin' work in then! You'd better have this queue'd up every day for the next six months! You'd better have all your friends queue'ing it up too!

You want me to suffer?? You want to treat me like my own goddamn bones do??? MAKE AN EFFORT

ALT

how dare you lay this curse upon my home

ALT

you don't frighten me

Everyone in the notes saying "this is a 10k post to me" "posts that have 100k energy" "posts that are 30k to me" or whatever - alright, fine! Put the fuckin' work in then! You'd better have this queue'd up every day for the next six months! You'd better have all your friends queue'ing it up too!

You want me to suffer?? You want to treat me like my own goddamn bones do??? MAKE AN EFFORT

Do we need to start posting that quote about how slavery and rounding up people in the Holocaust were legal again?

And getting either group to safety made you a criminal.

i think it’s the Purity Culture War again.  as opposed to considering the words “war criminal” to denote a specific class of criminal acts, these people are using the descriptor “war criminal” to indicate Badness because we, on the whole, agree that war criminals are generally Bad People.  they don’t actually care what the words “war crime” actually mean, the literal semantic meaning of words is pointless, the only thing that matters is how those words make you feel, and they feel like “war criminal” is synonymous with “bad person.”  so if you point out that this person is actually not a war criminal, they hear it as you saying “they’re not actually a bad person,” because the meaning of “war criminal” and the meaning of “bad person” have become conflated.

see also: saying something is “romanticizing” or “glorifying” a bad thing, when it’s really just depicting it.  calling someone a TERF for having generally bad opinions unrelated to Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminism.  calling people pedophiles for, i dunno, literally any of the reasons people have gotten called pedophiles on here, like “shipping adults with an age difference,” “depicting size kink between two adults,” and “talking about how teenagers experience sexual attraction.”  calling things “triggering” when they really just mean “squicky.” and so on and so forth.

explaining to them that they’re using the words wrong doesn’t work, because the whole point is to use words that have a powerful emotional weight, regardless of what they actually mean.  there is no objective difference between true things and false things, there is only that which feels true and that which feels false.

I don’t know how anybody expects to have productive discussions about anything if they can’t agree that words like ‘crime’ have specific meanings. No wonder people are so bad at social activism on this site, they’ve made it impossible to communicate anything more than vague feelings of outrage.

@marvelousmawn