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Am I (An) Asshole for wanting politically correct insults?
Am I (An) Asshole for wanting politically correct insults? - Lemmy.World
Feel free to call me out for being an asshole for any other reason, too. đ Here me out though, inb4 âWhy do you want to insult people without being offensive, you inane, paradoxical asshole?â Well, hereâs the thing. I do want to be able to offend someone (in some cases), or to say something that might be considered offensive to them, even if not directed at them. More importantly, I want other people to have alternatives to insults, because people are going to use insults anyway, and making those insults less broadly offensive as a form of damage control is a far more achievable goal than doing away with insults entirely. But the purpose is to insult/offend a quality of their character, of that particular person (or a group of people who demonstrate a specific quality, attitude or choice etc), rather than using a random insult which uses a different group than the target individual/group as the butt of the joke and ends up, as a kind of crossfire/side effect, either offending that group or others or contributing to potentially harmful societal attitudes toward them. I mean, do you have a problem saying âMisogynists are buttfacesâ? No? But you just insulted a group. See what I mean? Itâs ok to insult groups sometimes. But why insult disabled people? They didnât/donât inherently do anything wrong or worthy of ridicule (obviously some disabled people do, like any group of people - but that has nothing to do with their disability). And Iâm guessing most people are fine with saying âThat person is a real⌠assholeâ. Hence the community this is in. Letâs set aside the debate over âIs the R-word (retard, not gRape) offensive to disabled people, or to others who might be offended on their behalf, and/or does it contribute to negative attitudes & potential treatment of those groups of peopleâ. Letâs just assume for sake of example that itâs an offensive or harmful term, or off limits regardless, because many people do take issue with that word and its colloquial understandings and associations/connotations. What would be a viable alternative? I can think of many⌠But seriously, and please donât lynch me for saying it in this self-aware meta analytical context, nothing hits as hard as âThatâs fucking retardedâ or âWhat a fucking retardâ/âWhat a bunch of fucking retardsâ. These are powerful expressions, and they have the ability to persuade others to think negatively about a concept, thing, event, person or group of people, or to convey in evocative terms how you feel that something or someone is absurd, ridiculous or foolish. It may also be elements of the sound/enunciation of the word that are effective, even if you just read it and think of it. Itâs similar actually to the word âfuck/fuckingâ, which I also used there. It means almost nothing extra but it can add emphasis. And obviously the intention is (usually, or at least often) not to offend or even comment on anything about disabled people, and they arenât even in mind at all. So it is similar to saying âThatâs gayâ (in a negative way), which honestly just sounds lame and cringe to me and doesnât have the same effect as the r word. But the parallel exists where a lot of people arenât thinking of actual gay people at all when they use the insult, and may be pro-đłď¸âđ/LGBT, but itâs still problematic regardless. Now, Iâm not defending using the R word at all, nor do I use it. I actively avoid using it, with the exception of this post. But I see others using it all the time, and I canât help but understand why they do, since it fills a bit of a linguistic box that other words havenât been able to fill as well, although I want to be corrected on that. Other words which are contenders for replacements when used as an insult in a way that is intended to be used very generally and not directed at or referencing marginalized groups or particular groups at all, aside from âretard/retardedâ or âgayâ, include âbitchâ, the N word, and maybe âmotherfuckerâ (I get a lot of pushback from this one, aside from some feminists who agreed itâs a little problematic - like âyour momâ jokes). Also, using other animals as insults, but I know most people arenât going to agree with me on that one since itâs more of a vegan/animal rights thing. Again donât lynch me. Yes, Iâm trying to find ways that people can be assholes without being more of assholes than they need to. Does that make me an asshole? Also, do you have any suggestions? Thanks for reading, and âfuck youâ (not really, youâre alright).
Am I The Asshole for wanting politically correct insults?
Am I The Asshole for wanting politically correct insults? - Lemmy.World
Feel free to call me out for being an asshole for any other reason, too. đ Here me out though, inb4 âWhy do you want to insult people without being offensive, you inane, paradoxical asshole?â Well, hereâs the thing. I do want to be able to offend someone (in some cases), or to say something that might be considered offensive to them, even if not directed at them. More importantly, I want other people to have alternatives to insults, because people are going to use insults anyway, and making those insults less broadly offensive as a form of damage control is a far more achievable goal than doing away with insults entirely. But the purpose is to insult/offend a quality of their character, of that particular person (or a group of people who demonstrate a specific quality, attitude or choice etc), rather than using a random insult which uses a different group than the target individual/group as the butt of the joke and ends up, as a kind of crossfire/side effect, either offending that group or others or contributing to potentially harmful societal attitudes toward them. I mean, do you have a problem saying âMisogynists are buttfacesâ? No? But you just insulted a group. See what I mean? Itâs ok to insult groups sometimes. But why insult disabled people? They didnât/donât inherently do anything wrong or worthy of ridicule (obviously some disabled people do, like any group of people - but that has nothing to do with their disability). And Iâm guessing most people are fine with saying âThat person is a real⌠assholeâ. Hence the community this is in. Letâs set aside the debate over âIs the R-word (retard, not gRape) offensive to disabled people, or to others who might be offended on their behalf, and/or does it contribute to negative attitudes & potential treatment of those groups of peopleâ. Letâs just assume for sake of example that itâs an offensive or harmful term, or off limits regardless, because many people do take issue with that word and its colloquial understandings and associations/connotations. What would be a viable alternative? I can think of many⌠But seriously, and please donât lynch me for saying it in this self-aware meta analytical context, nothing hits as hard as âThatâs fucking retardedâ or âWhat a fucking retardâ/âWhat a bunch of fucking retardsâ. These are powerful expressions, and they have the ability to persuade others to think negatively about a concept, thing, event, person or group of people, or to convey in evocative terms how you feel that something or someone is absurd, ridiculous or foolish. It may also be elements of the sound/enunciation of the word that are effective, even if you just read it and think of it. Itâs similar actually to the word âfuck/fuckingâ, which I also used there. It means almost nothing extra but it can add emphasis. And obviously the intention is (usually, or at least often) not to offend or even comment on anything about disabled people, and they arenât even in mind at all. So it is similar to saying âThatâs gayâ (in a negative way), which honestly just sounds lame and cringe to me and doesnât have the same effect as the r word. But the parallel exists where a lot of people arenât thinking of actual gay people at all when they use the insult, and may be pro-đłď¸âđ/LGBT, but itâs still problematic regardless. Now, Iâm not defending using the R word at all, nor do I use it. I actively avoid using it, with the exception of this post. But I see others using it all the time, and I canât help but understand why they do, since it fills a bit of a linguistic box that other words havenât been able to fill as well, although I want to be corrected on that. Other words which are contenders for replacements when used as an insult in a way that is intended to be used very generally and not directed at or referencing marginalized groups or particular groups at all, aside from âretard/retardedâ or âgayâ, include âbitchâ, the N word, and maybe âmotherfuckerâ (I get a lot of pushback from this one, aside from some feminists who agreed itâs a little problematic - like âyour momâ jokes). Also, using other animals as insults, but I know most people arenât going to agree with me on that one since itâs more of a vegan/animal rights thing. Again donât lynch me. Yes, Iâm trying to find ways that people can be assholes without being more of assholes than they need to. Does that make me an asshole? Also, do you have any suggestions? Thanks for reading, and âfuck youâ (not really, youâre alright).
Thanksgiving to animals (or at least leaving them in peace), not taking from them, and why Stephen Hawking sucked
Thanksgiving to animals (or at least leaving them in peace), not taking from them, and why Stephen Hawking sucked - Lemmy.World
Happy Thanksgiving to anyone who didnât pay someone to exploit & slaughter a turkey this year and take their life, relationships, wellbeing, autonomy & freedom away from them. đŚđŚđŚđđđ To the rest of you, I wish you well in spirit. But I also wish youâd make different choices and be kind to innocent vulnerable conscious beings instead of cruel to them when given every opportunity. Stephen Hawking was dumb. Yeah I said it. Because he thought that other animals didnât matter as much as humans, and we could conduct experiments on them and exploit them for our own benefit. (In reality, we have much better alternatives anyway). He also made mocking and critical comments about the idea of animal rights and animal rights activists, and even moderate animal welfare advocates, and used some really poor and fallacious logic to justify exploiting animals both for research and for food. For all his intelligence, he was dumb on the subject of animal rights and animal ethics more generally, and also made some quite silly and poorly received comments about philosophy not mattering as a field in order to dismiss his logical errors & contradictions and the academic critique they were met with. Just as many of the most influential and intelligent people in history dropped the ball when they made absurd justifications for bigotry against our fellow humans, many did the same of our fellow animals. It just reflects the outdated thinking of the time, and being consumed by culture in an negative, harmful, oppressive way while others were more independently-minded and principled (like Einstein, Tolstoy, Tesla, DaVinci, Plutarch, Pythagoras, etc - all vegetarian/possibly vegan and talked about other animals deserving rights). Other animals care about their lives in all the same ways as us. Theyâre sentient beings with a conscious experience. Whatâs legal isnât always ethical if we look at history. Be on the right side of the justice issues of your time. If youâve gotten through your life thinking itâs okay to violate nonhuman animalsâ interests and moral (would-be-legal) rights for unnecessary purposes, it doesnât mean youâre stupid. Something just hasnât clicked for you yet. We can all change, starting now. End speciesism, or at least end carnism. End the domination, exploitation, victimization & oppression of the nonhuman animal species by the human animal species without need and for mere greed. Leave animals in peace, protect the planet from environmental destruction, do the right thing for your health and humanity & all sentient beings, and go VEGAN. đŚđđđđđđđŚ
What's a better way to say "possibly possible" or "necessarily necessary"?
What's a better way to say "possibly possible" or "necessarily necessary"? - Lemmy.World
These, believe it or not, convey distinct meanings and arenât redundant. They use slightly different senses of the words. For example: âItâs possibly possible for humans to colonize Mars/create sentient AI.â âItâs possibly possible for me to lift 400 pounds if I became a bodybuilder.â âItâs possibly possible for Earth to combine with another planetâ. That is, it may be possible for humans to colonize Mars or create sentient AIs, or for you to lift 400 pounds, but we donât know yet. (Without making empirical claims, letâs assume for sake of example that we know this to be true.) The first meaning of possibility relates to chance/probability whereas the second relates to ability/capability/feasibility. Another way to express it more clearly is âItâs potentially possible/thereâs a chance that itâs possibleâ. To just say âItâs possibleâ might convey the same meaning, but risks confusing/conflating it with saying that itâs definitely or even currently possible, rather than hypothetically (either physically/nomologically or just logically) possible in the sense of not currently being able to rule it out, falsify/disprove it or prove it either way (but having reason to think it could happen in some scenario). âItâs not necessarily necessary for you to wear a tie to the meeting, they might not care.â âItâs not necessarily necessary to use antibiotics to treat the infectionâ. It may be necessary (in achieving a stipulated goal/outcome, such as success in getting a job or promotion, or tackling an infection) for some conditions or event/actions to be true/occur like wearing a tie or using antibiotics, but not definitely (we canât guarantee it would be required). First necessary relates to degree of certainty/confidence/conviction or accuracy/completeness of what youâre saying, second relates to its requirement for a purpose. How speak?
If everyone else makes fallacies, why can't I?
Do you ever think you're smiling for a photo, but then when you see it you look like you have a neutral or even frowning expression? Why does this happen?
Do people mean "dietary animal products" in general when they say "meat"?
Do people mean "dietary animal products" in general when they say "meat"? - Lemmy.World
It would certainly shine a light on why people almost exclusively talk about meat when talking to vegans. If âmeatâ is being used to mean any and all dietary animal products, or even just including dairy and eggs, not just animal flesh, then it would explain a lot of behavior Iâve experienced. I think vegans know, that all you hear from non-vegans is talk about meat. Trying to provoke us by saying they like/love meat, or meat is tasty, or that theyâre eating meat, or in cases of the internet, people (farmers, homesteaders) informing us that theyâll be personally slaughtering animals in our name and attributing blame to us for that action. But even in less hostile cases, talking about how much they would struggle to give up meat, or debating the ethics, environmentalism, health & other factors purely related to meat production & consumption, defending their own consumption of meat or othersâ, while seemingly ignoring what a vegan is and treating us as if weâre vegetarians. Ever since being vegan, itâs been a weird notable experience for me that everyone talks to me about âmeatâ. When I was vegetarian (by my understanding of the definition at that time, which just meant no consumption of animal flesh/bodies), no one ever talked about it. As soon as Iâm vegan? âOh, a vegan. Meat, meat, meat.â It would make more sense to me if people said that when I was vegetarian, and then started talking about dairy, eggs or leather to me all the time when I went vegan. But I digress. I do have theories, like maybe the existence of people who donât use any animals with an ethical association triggers them more, and maybe that causes them to default to asserting their defiant attitude to continue consuming the âproductâ theyâre most attracted to, meat (though you also hear very frequently âI could never give up cheeseâ). Btw- âmeatâ isnât what I would rather say. I donât even like that word anymore, at least when used for animal flesh, because it feels like a euphemism & helps distance consumers from what âitâ is. Plus, it denies the existence of plant-based meat or its meat status (nvm how meat just meant food originally, including plants). But Iâll call it meat for these purposes or clarity and because weâre discussing how language is used.
Assumption: You are "sleeping on" COLDWATER, Andrew Lincoln's new thriller series [NO SPOILERS]
Assumption: You are "sleeping on" COLDWATER, Andrew Lincoln's new thriller series [NO SPOILERS] - Lemmy.World
I say assumption, because I know a lot of you Walking Dead/Rick Grimes/Andrew Lincoln die hards will have seen it like me, but it also seems like this 6-episode show went under the radar of a lot of people, or they didnât think it was worth watching, or they didnât have access to it (it aired on British TV, apparently itâs coming to Showtime and Paramount in the US in 2026, but surely thereâs a way to watch it for you guys now, I think itâs on Crave in Canada or something or maybe Amazon or Apple). Obviously there are other means⌠So here are my reasons for why you should watch Coldwater (mostly catering to TWD fans, but also Ozark fans, and fans of good television in general). 1ď¸âŁ. Youâve been lied to by IMDb: The show is underrated, and there are a ton of praising reviews that stand in contrast to the IMDb rating. I donât know why the rating is as it is, honestly, but I suspect people didnât give it enough of a go. The first episode was a little rushed but it really finds its footing after a few episodes and the tension ramps up. Note the later episodes are rated highly compared to the first. Also, maybe TWD fans watched it expecting Rick Grimes, when the character is kind of the complete opposite, but then at the same time displays many elements of Rick and evolves throughout the series in really satisfying ways, no spoilers. _______________________________________ 2ď¸âŁ. This show is a bit like Ozark but with Andrew Lincoln instead of Jason Bateman, as far as vibes. I wonât say more. _______________________________________ 3ď¸âŁ. The finale has 2 moments that feel like they are direct homages to Rick moments in The Walking Dead, if anyone has seen it and wants to know what Iâm talking about let me know, but otherwise I wonât say anything more on that. I canât confirm if itâs intentional or not but highly coincidental if not. _______________________________________ 4ď¸âŁ. The showâs writer is a playwright, and I think this is one of his first TV/film projects. That might sound sketchy, but I think he brought a unique vision into it drawing from his experience writing plays, and put a lot of care and focus into each episode. He said in, well look Iâll put the article here : https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-coldwater-creator-speaks-out-35831753 but [https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/itv-coldwater-creator-speaks-out-35831753%C2%A0but] basically he treated this series as like 6 plays that integrate with each other as one singular story. And it really does feel like every episode was fast paced and there was a lot happening all the time, very engaging, I wasnât bored at all once I got into it, which didnât take long, and then I just wanted to keep watching the next episode until I finished it. It gets super intense and the tension just ramps up and up, and I know I probably sound like a fool if you didnât like it, but to each their own lol. _______________________________________ 5ď¸âŁ. We need a season 2! I know this was billed as a miniseries, but as you can see in that article if you read it (thereâs no spoilers), they did leave room for it to continue and the creator has ideas for multiple seasons. I think it has potential to become even better in the next season based on the crazy ending. I can confirm that they basically ended it in the perfect way, where it serves as enough of a good ending were it to not get renewed, but it also has a lot of potential to keep going IF the audience are there. So please watch/support it! I hope that more people see it when it comes to the US properly, but Iâm sure you can find a way in the meantime. And leave it some good ratings/reviews! Also, I canât post on Reddit so I would really appreciate if someone can share my post there or what I said or generally recommend the show to the Walking Dead and Television community over there, especially if you enjoyed the series too and want to see it continue. _______________________________________ [https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5c92f3d3-6730-490d-a89a-9c2c6e33ed41.jpeg] 6ď¸âŁ. Just look at that poster! While Andrew Lincolnâs acting in this series was incredible, Ewen Bremner was absolutely stellar as well and the way the actors and characters played off each other had a really effective chemistry. Also, doesnât Andy look like Rick did during the Negan lineup there?!