• @mindbleach
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    14 days ago

    If the things I tell you make you think less of me as a person, or cause you to label me a douchebag, or just annoy you to the point you stop listening, that’s what being offended is, genius.

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      No being offended is a feeling of anger or resentment; frustration

      It’s an emotional response

      • @mindbleach
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        14 days ago

        Or simply being likely to provoke protest. Like maybe you have unkind labels for people who you think are liable to throw slurs at you for no reason. As I have unkind labels based on the myriad grammatical fuckups in “someone whom calls other’s” anything.

        Being zen about assholes doesn’t mean they aren’t assholes. A performatively casual ‘yep, they’re assholes’ does not change how they are, in your estimation, being assholes. Your estimation of ‘what an asshole’ is what offense is.

        It doesn’t have a god-damn thing to do with conservatism, or liberalism, or the left-right divide. Nor does the left-right divide have anything to do with challenging ideas or tolerating criticism. What I am writing right now is what a challenge to your ideas looks like. Not lobbing slurs. Being offended over slurs - however dryly your offense emerges - is not somehow conservative. It’s having a moral standard that does not endorse overt bigotry.

        I invite you to claim that’s all there is to leftism, on any .ml instance, and get torn to fucking shreds.

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          04 days ago

          I didn’t claim that’s all there is to leftism, supporting offensiveness is just a part of it

          The most common thing offending people is just existing as a minority. Guess which side is offended?

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            14 days ago

            You did though. You called people taking offense “getting more conservative.” You directly attribute your alleged leftism with never taking offense at anything ever. If you meant anything else then you typed all the wrong words.

            Yeah, bigoted assholes get offended over the existence of minorities.

            People being offended by that bigotry is not the same fucking thing.

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              Now I’m starting to question your intelligence because you don’t seem capable of understanding a rather simple claim

              There is more to leftism than being intelligent but it’s roots are in academia so it’s going to e a feature of it

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                13 days ago

                Personal insults over criticism of your stated ignorance, how about fuck off.

                Troll: calling people lesser disagreements is what you claim only conservatives do.

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                  I claim they get offended because they can’t handle having their ideas challenged

                  I am not offended by your inability to understand that or that you are a right winger that consider ls themselves left of nazis

                  I just don’t see a point in continuing to reiterate the same point over and over when it’s clear you shut your eyes, covered your ears, and started screaming. Do you think I could convince you otherwise? If not then you’re in agreement with my previous statement

                  • @mindbleach
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                    13 days ago

                    you are a right winger than consider ls themselves left of nazis

                    Word salad.

                    I just don’t see a point in continuing to reiterate the same point over and over when it’s clear you shut your eyes, covered your ears, and started screaming.

                    You literally do not have a point. You think endorsing offense is what makes leftism, except when you don’t. You think conservatism is taking offense, except when someone explains what “taking offense” actually fucking means.

                    You refuse to see any difference between BIGOTS CRYING ABOUT MINORITIES and CALLING THOSE BIGOTS ASSHOLES.

                    Should anyone need to expend effort to explain why those two things are different?

                    Should anyone bother to expend one more second dealing with your trolling horseshit to the contrary?