Not that it matters at this point, but was there ever a reason given why Michelle Obama didn't enter the race at all? I feel she would have wiped the floor with Trump, no contest.
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She saw what the job did to her husband, and probably wouldn't have liked putting the family through it again.
Maybe she doesn't have what it takes to be a politician. Just because men-child, reality show actors, or fat slobs get the job doesn't mean that it doesn't take a certain set of skills to do it properly..
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She saw what the job did to her husband, and probably wouldn't have liked putting the family through it again.
Maybe she doesn't have what it takes to be a politician. Just because men-child, reality show actors, or fat slobs get the job doesn't mean that it doesn't take a certain set of skills to do it properly..
As the fat slob, reality show actor man-child currently in the office proves on a weekly, if not daily, basis.
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Not that it matters at this point, but was there ever a reason given why Michelle Obama didn't enter the race at all? I feel she would have wiped the floor with Trump, no contest.
No interest in doing it, would just dig up old lines from Hillary's 2008 bid about coasting off her husband's accomplishments, and considering how the stars aligned specifically to fuck over a white woman in 2016 a black woman would have even less chance.
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Political campaigning, by definition, is virtue signalling.
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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-ordered-pay-44100-stormy-daniels-legal-fees-72543035
Good luck getting the cheapskate to give up the money.
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I am LIVID at Tennessee right now:
https://apnews.com/f465062c6eb6ab38c8df99b40f687fe4Not that it matters at this point, but was there ever a reason given why Michelle Obama didn't enter the race at all? I feel she would have wiped the floor with Trump, no contest.
I think plain just didn't want to. And I don't blame her, wonderful as she is.
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In funnier news, the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee found an honest-to-god fan letter that Trump wrote Putin:
https://secondnexus.com/putin-donald-trump-fan-letter?fbclid=IwAR1mHIdZDQ_FCKVf-1z-BiGA2l8gDBl0RQTuAph2Fi7mA9Oq12LVZf_iw4EI mean, sad, but funny.
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I am LIVID at Tennessee right now:
https://apnews.com/f465062c6eb6ab38c8df99b40f687fe4I keep telling people outside of the South that they don't know yet just how bad it can get under Republicans; maybe this becoming a national story will be a wakeup call for some but I doubt it.
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I am LIVID at Tennessee right now:
https://apnews.com/f465062c6eb6ab38c8df99b40f687fe4I think plain just didn't want to. And I don't blame her, wonderful as she is.
I keep telling people outside of the South that they don't know yet just how bad it can get under Republicans; maybe this becoming a national story will be a wakeup call for some but I doubt it.
For context, the headline reads "Tennessee gov signs bill upping penalties on some protests"
Tennessee protesters will face harsher penalties, including losing the right to vote, for breaking certain laws during demonstrations under a law enacted by Gov. Bill Lee.
The Republican governor quietly signed off on the bill Thursday. Lee has previously conceded there were portions of the bill he “would have done differently” but ultimately agreed to make the proposal law effective immediately with his signature.
Tennessee’s GOP-dominant General Assembly advanced the measure last week during a brief three-day special legislative session while also passing bills on COVID-19 liability immunity and telemedicine.
Most notably, the new law now states that those who illegally camp on state property would now face a Class E felony, punishable by up to six years in prison, rather than a misdemeanor. Felony convictions in Tennessee result in the revocation of an individual’s right to vote.
The bill also imposes a mandatory minimum 45-day hold if convicted of aggravated rioting; enhances the fine for obstructing emergency vehicles from accessing highways; requires a court to order restitution for damaging state property; and creates a Class C felony offense for aggravated assault against a first responder — which carries a $15,000 fine and mandatory minimum 90-day prison sentence.
The governor said a provision requiring a warning to those camping illegally strengthened the bill, and cited the discretion of prosecutors and judges.
The leader of the American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee, who had asked Lee to veto the legislation, said Thursday the group will be closely monitoring enforcement of the law and urged Tennesseans “to get out and vote like their rights depend on it.”
“We are very disappointed in Governor Lee’s decision to sign this bill, which chills free speech, undermines criminal justice reform and fails to address the very issues of racial justice and police violence raised by the protesters who are being targeted,” ACLU of Tennessee Executive Director Hedy Weinberg said in a statement. “While the governor often speaks about sentencing reform, this bill contradicts those words and wastes valuable taxpayer funds to severely criminalize dissent.”
Lawmakers advanced the bill amid nearly two months of frequent protests outside the Capitol. The mostly young Black activists who spearheaded the demonstration had been calling for racial justice reforms and for a meeting with Lee.
The governor has declined to meet with them, but has met with a handful of Black leaders as part of a previous promise to address “racial reconciliation” and other racial justice issues.
However, Lee and other lawmakers have defended the protest bill by pointing to a late May demonstration that resulted with some participants setting fires inside and outside a courthouse.
“I think what we saw was a courthouse on fire and businesses being broken into and vehicles being damaged. We saw lawlessness that needed to be addressed immediately. And that was done so,” Lee told reporters Thursday when asked about the bill.
The protest occurred as demonstrators across the country protested the death of George Floyd, a handcuffed black man who pleaded for air as a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on his neck.
Multiple demonstrations throughout Tennessee since then have remained overwhelmingly peaceful.
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Portland police stand by as Proud Boys and far-right militias flash guns and brawl with antifa counterprotesters – As the brawls unfolded, Portland police officers remained at a distance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/08/22/portland-police-far-right-protest/
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The only people who use that term are alt-right people, so wtf are you trying to pull here.
Nahhh. I use it too, and I lean way left to point someone will call me a socialist/communist from the right, so yeah. People should well follow up with actions if they really want to achieve their agenda. For example, I want police reform, instead of just complaining about it, I literally wrote a letter to the mayor of my town asking for it. It was even hand-written to hopefully give more of an affect. Companies have so much money, and they can do way more, but they only ever do virtue signalling. (Well, many times they do.)
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I am LIVID at Tennessee right now:
https://apnews.com/f465062c6eb6ab38c8df99b40f687fe4I think plain just didn't want to. And I don't blame her, wonderful as she is.
I mean as sickening it is they'd try this, it's so absurdly against the first amendment, and various state voting laws, that I wouldn't sweat it. Especially given the legitimate things worth obscene action against.
It's almost laughable (if it wasn't so sad) how ridiculously illegal this is.
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I mean as sickening it is they'd try this, it's so absurdly against the first amendment, and various state voting laws, that I wouldn't sweat it. Especially given the legitimate things worth obscene action against.
It's almost laughable (if it wasn't so sad) how ridiculously illegal this is.
It could still keep people from voting this year if the courts drag their feet.
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I mean as sickening it is they'd try this, it's so absurdly against the first amendment, and various state voting laws, that I wouldn't sweat it. Especially given the legitimate things worth obscene action against.
It's almost laughable (if it wasn't so sad) how ridiculously illegal this is.
Doesn't matter how ridiculous it is. It needs to be sorted out and fixed in less than two months. Just taking it to court and being overturned ain't enough.
See also the destruction of the USPS, which is still going anyway despite promises of "oh no, of course I won't do that right now if affects the election, please don't sue me!"
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Anything I can do to help save the post office like donations or anything?
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Go buy some stamps. But don't use them right now.
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@Monkey:
The only people who use that term are alt-right people, so wtf are you trying to pull here.
This.
If "Virtue Signaling" ever meant anything valid, it doesn't anymore.
Now it's just a thing reactionaries use to whine. They whine about there being too many minorities in their media these days or about how white people should totally be allowed to say the N-word as much as they want, or to use to complain about how BLM is actually bad because it's "Virtue Signaling", or how treating LGBT people with Respect is bad because it's "Virtue Signaling" etc etc.
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It would be nice if we could stop allowing jerks on Twitter to dictate what political speech is and isn't valid.
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It would be nice if we could stop allowing jerks on Twitter to dictate what political speech is and isn't valid.
To be fair, any political position that's not conservationism is valid. And the twitter jerks aren't holding guns against your head unless your are famous or excel at your field, so they are harmless as people on /pol/.
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To be fair, any political position that's not conservationism is valid. And the twitter jerks aren't holding guns against your head unless your are famous or excel at your field, so they are harmless as people on /pol/.
When we allow political extremists to appropriate terms and ideas and they use them to harass people, other people inevitably claim that the terms are now inherently evil and should no longer be used.
It's just bad for us to allow crazy people to destroy language is what I'm getting at.
In this case we're talking about "virtue signaling", which is still an extremely valid concept in a world where corporations like Amazon claim that black lives matter while demonstrating that they believe black workers' lives don't.
If we allow alt-right shit-stirrers to take that away from us, we have one less tool to fight back against very real oppression. -
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They're straight up a death cult. It doesn't matter if people are dying as long as they own the libs sufficiently.
It would be nice if we could stop allowing jerks on Twitter to dictate what political speech is and isn't valid.
"Twitter" doesn't dictate that, USAGE does. The reactionaries say the same crap on YouTube and Podcasts, and everywhere else.
English is a living evolving language. It's the same reason the people who still say "Aint" isn't a word are wrong. If enough people use "aint" as a word, "aint" is a word.
Then the overwhelming majority of the usage of a term is negative, the term is negative. The N-Word is a slur and is always racist to say (if you aren't black) because of the CENTURIES it's been used as a slur to put them down. Some black people use it as a way to take it back, repurpose, or defang it, but we as a society universally accept that white people have always historically used it to shit on black people so if a white person says it, everyone will consider them racist.
"Virtue Signaling" obviously doesn't have the same history as that word. I deliberately went for a big example to illustrate my point, but by now reactionaries have well and truly claimed the term "Virtue Signaling" and muddied any non-reactionary meaning it ever had.
I've been told:
The character of Ms. Marvel existing.
Holdo's hair in The Last Jedi being Purple.
Correcting someone for misgendering me.
Saying I liked Birds of Prey.
Saying "Black Lives Matter".
Saying "Fuck Hitler".are all "Virtue Signaling".
If it ever meant anything, they have over used and over applied it to the point that now it's just a thing reactionaries call stuff they don't like and that's how most people see it.
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Expect none of that is virtue signaling. Virtue signaling is saying you care about so and so, but not doing anything to actually help. Like how I had people say they were accepting with me being trans, but then use the wrong pronouns or don't want me to use the women's restroom. So, just saying it to get rep points, instead of following up with actions. AKA fake people in many cases. So, yeah get your facts straight.
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When we allow political extremists to appropriate terms and ideas and they use them to harass people, other people inevitably claim that the terms are now inherently evil and should no longer be used.
It's just bad for us to allow crazy people to destroy language is what I'm getting at.
So your point is just another “retard” moot point? Languages naturally evolve, they aren’t static.
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Words are just words. I use the "slur" tranny on myself, but I'm also fine with cis people using tranny, as I don't give a fuck and even gave "permission" for them to say it lol
So, yeah, it's just a word, and doesn't make them transphobic if they are not hating me for being trans when they use it. There is a thing called banter for a reason. Plus, you can use a word in a positive way, and the more it's used in that way, it loses its negative connotations.
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"Virtue Signaling" obviously doesn't have the same history as that word. I deliberately went for a big example to illustrate my point, but by now reactionaries have well and truly claimed the term "Virtue Signaling" and muddied any non-reactionary meaning it ever had.
I've been told:
The character of Ms. Marvel existing.
Holdo's hair in The Last Jedi being Purple.
Correcting someone for misgendering me.
Saying I liked Birds of Prey.
Saying "Black Lives Matter".
Saying "Fuck Hitler".are all "Virtue Signaling".
If it ever meant anything, they have over used and over applied it to the point that now it's just a thing reactionaries call stuff they don't like and that's how most people see it.
I was going to comment on the death cult…but...
POINT ME TO THE FUCKERS THAT DISLIKE KAMALA so I can sent them to a meet with their maker.
What's wrong with the colour purple?
Fuck Hitler and Fuck fascism is always valid. A L W A Y S. Killing fascist is the reason I like WWII FPS games. -
POINT ME TO THE FUCKERS THAT DISLIKE KAMALA so I can sent them to a meet with their maker.
What if they dislike her for her policies? I'm fine with her being Biden's VP, but I honestly wanted Warren lol, but I'm neutral about her being VP, she's nothing special like Biden, so yeah.
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What if they dislike her for her policies? I'm fine with her being Biden's VP, but I honestly wanted Warren lol, but I'm neutral about her being VP, she's nothing special like Biden, so yeah.
I'm not talking about Kamala Harris, I'm talking about Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel.
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I'm not talking about Kamala Harris, I'm talking about Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel.
Ohhhhhh, I get it. I don't know much about Marvel characters besides the movies xD
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I was going to comment on the death cult…but...
POINT ME TO THE FUCKERS THAT DISLIKE KAMALA so I can sent them to a meet with their maker.
What's wrong with the colour purple?
Fuck Hitler and Fuck fascism is always valid. A L W A Y S. Killing fascist is the reason I like WWII FPS games.Kamala is a Muslim Superhero, so her existence is automatically "Virtue Signaling" because reactionaries hate Muslims and saying a Muslim can be a hero is, to them, wrong.
Search for her name and #ComicsGate (yes, Comics has a stupid "Gate" thing now) to see more about this or watch Tyrone Magnus' coverage of the new Avengers game which he calls Virtue Signaling because Kamala is the main character.Atypical Hair colors automatically mean "Tumblr Feminists" to reactionaries, so Holdo having purple hair is "Virtue Signaling" to said feminists.
Birds of Prey was an "Objectively terrible movie" to reactionaries, so the only reason someone would say they like it is because Feminism and therefore it's Virtue Signaling.
And "Fuck Hitler" is Virtue Signaling because Nazism is now a legitimate political position we all have to respect now, and Hitler is dead and not around to actually criticize anymore, so the only reason to say "Fuck Hitler" is to also say "Fuck Nazis" which is virtue signaling.
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Atypical Hair colors automatically mean "Tumblr Feminists" to reactionaries
Um, what? I never had this happen and I had so many different "atypical hair colours", plus I hate tumblr lol, too many sensitive pricks there.
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They're straight up a death cult. It doesn't matter if people are dying as long as they own the libs sufficiently.
Jesus Christ.
I knew Trumpism was going to stick around but I thought a majority of Republicans would eventually come around to the "COVID is bad" side.
Feel free to repost that in the COVID thread."Twitter" doesn't dictate that, USAGE does. The reactionaries say the same crap on YouTube and Podcasts, and everywhere else.
Those are still all online platforms.
I've never met a single person in real life who rants at length about racial/gender/sexual preference etc tolerance being virtue signaling.
I'm sure it happens but you shouldn't be using "I hear people say this on right-wing Youtube all the time" as proof that something is widely and near-exclusively used as a pejorative when most people have probably never even heard the term.English is a living evolving language. It's the same reason the people who still say "Aint" isn't a word are wrong. If enough people use "aint" as a word, "aint" is a word.
That's why words can have multiple definitions.
When a word or a term sees use as a pejorative, that new definition doesn't overwrite the old one unless it becomes the only definition in use.
Otherwise we'd have completely thrown out words like liberal, racism, rat, atheist etc…Then the overwhelming majority of the usage of a term is negative, the term is negative. The N-Word is a slur and is always racist to say (if you aren't black) because of the CENTURIES it's been used as a slur to put them down. Some black people use it as a way to take it back, repurpose, or defang it, but we as a society universally accept that white people have always historically used it to shit on black people so if a white person says it, everyone will consider them racist.
"Virtue Signaling" obviously doesn't have the same history as that word. I deliberately went for a big example to illustrate my point, but by now reactionaries have well and truly claimed the term "Virtue Signaling" and muddied any non-reactionary meaning it ever had.
You can feel free to call out people who are using the term just to troll and harass the left, but if the word still has value then by enforcing their definition you're granting them power and legitimacy.
I've been told:
The character of Ms. Marvel existing.
Holdo's hair in The Last Jedi being Purple.
Correcting someone for misgendering me.
Saying I liked Birds of Prey.
Saying "Black Lives Matter".
Saying "Fuck Hitler".are all "Virtue Signaling".
If it ever meant anything, they have over used and over applied it to the point that now it's just a thing reactionaries call stuff they don't like and that's how most people see it.
I'm sorry you've suffered a lot of abuse online, but you wouldn't stop drinking milk or using the OK sign just because hateful people in known-to-be hateful spaces have tried to appropriate those things for malicious purposes.
So your point is just another “retard” moot point? Languages naturally evolve, they aren’t static.
Are you seriously calling me a retard while lecturing me about a term you think is offensive and illegitimate?
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Kamala is a Muslim Superhero, so her existence is automatically "Virtue Signaling" because reactionaries hate Muslims and saying a Muslim can be a hero is, to them, wrong.
Playing devils advocate here.Some people might think it's forced or something, not necessary because they hate Muslims. Especially if it is just to get brownie points with people instead of focusing on character development. A character should be more than its race or gender. It's good to check your bias.
Honestly, for me I don't really care, as I don't see "color" or "gender", I just see a superhero fighting crime and saving lives. As long as they are a good character, etc. I'm fine with it.
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That's why words can have multiple definitions.
When a word or a term sees use as a pejorative, that new definition doesn't overwrite the old one unless it becomes the only definition in use.
Otherwise we'd have completely thrown out words like liberal, racism, rat, atheist etc…Yeah, liberal can mean the political left, but it can also mean "change" like "That person is very liberal with their money". That's the beauty of language, it's all about context. Especially, a good example is "trap". Usually it means for a character in anime that crossdresses but its to trick or shock the user that they actually identify as a man. But in some contexts, people can call a trans person a "trap" which is wrong, but doesn't mean the word should be banned. It's all about context. You know?
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Yup, I'm afraid any time I see the term "virtue signaling" I just automatically cringe. It is true that companies and the like do add diversity to 'pander', but… That's not at all a bad thing. What I think people aren't getting is that every. single. thing. is pandering. Straight white cis men want to act like they're some universal default and that the addition of a character whose more diverse in any way is 'pandering'. They're so daft that they can't see that cis white male protagonists are pandering to them.
So I think that the concept of "virtue signaling" is not something that says anything meaningful. It says so much more about the person using it, TBH.
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Yup, I'm afraid any time I see the term "virtue signaling" I just automatically cringe. It is true that companies and the like do add diversity to 'pander', but… That's not at all a bad thing. What I think people aren't getting is that every. single. thing. is pandering. Straight white cis men want to act like they're some universal default and that the addition of a character whose more diverse in any way is 'pandering'. They're so daft that they can't see that cis white male protagonists are pandering to them.
I like white male protagonists and I'm trans. It's not a good idea to generalize all straight cis white males in the same group, as that's just attacking those type of people. I never met another straight cis white male like the one you mentioned. I would refrain from using that type of language, as it's just attacking an entire gender, while most don't even do what you say they do.
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I create cis white male protagonists because that's what I am and I put a lot of myself in those characters. Not because I think I'm "default" or whatever, lol.
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I like white male protagonists and I'm trans. It's not a good idea to generalize all straight cis white males in the same group, as that's just attacking those type of people. I never met another straight cis white male like the one you mentioned. I would refrain from using that type of language, as it's just attacking an entire gender, while most don't even do what you say they do.
I worded that badly. I'm not talking about every single straight white cis man. Obviously, I'm only talking about the ones who whine about 'virtue signaling' any time they see diversity.
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Yup, I'm afraid any time I see the term "virtue signaling" I just automatically cringe. It is true that companies and the like do add diversity to 'pander', but… That's not at all a bad thing. What I think people aren't getting is that every. single. thing. is pandering. Straight white cis men want to act like they're some universal default and that the addition of a character whose more diverse in any way is 'pandering'. They're so daft that they can't see that cis white male protagonists are pandering to them.
So I think that the concept of "virtue signaling" is not something that says anything meaningful. It says so much more about the person using it, TBH.
You'd agree that when Trump virtue signals to Republicans to maintain his power and fascist agenda, that's bad, right?
And similarly it's bad when Democrats virtue signal to pretend that they're on the side of the poor and minorities when in reality they primarily represent the rich?It's very ironic that the right seems much more vulnerable to virtue signaling.
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Those are still all online platforms.
I've never met a single person in real life who rants at length about racial/gender/sexual preference etc tolerance being virtue signaling.
I'm sure it happens but you shouldn't be using "I hear people say this on right-wing Youtube all the time" as proof that something is widely and near-exclusively used as a pejorative when most people have probably never even heard the term.This is one area I think we fundamentally disagree on.
You seem to view the internet as "Not real life" as if there aren't actual real people behind the accounts saying these things. Especially on Youtube where they often are on camera saying these things.
And yes, I have seen people say this stuff "In real life".
That's why words can have multiple definitions.
When a word or a term sees use as a pejorative, that new definition doesn't overwrite the old one unless it becomes the only definition in use.
Otherwise we'd have completely thrown out words like liberal, racism, rat, atheist etc…I basically NEVER see it used any other way.
It's 95% Reactionaries whining about things they don't like
5% Anything else.I'm sorry you've suffered a lot of abuse online, but you wouldn't stop drinking milk or using the OK sign just because hateful people in known-to-be hateful spaces have tried to appropriate those things for malicious purposes.
I've not heard anything about Milk, but I don't use the OK sign anymore for exactly this reason. I don't want to risk the off-chance someone sees me make it and thinks I'm a white surpemacist.
4chan made that one go mainstream enough that I DO avoid it now.
Are you seriously calling me a retard while lecturing me about a term you think is offensive and illegitimate?
I don't think so. Pariston can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the point wasn't to call YOU that, but to refer to the fact that that word used to be completely legitimate. I think it STILL appears in medical textbooks.
"Mental Rtrdation" was and might still be the official medical diagnosis on the books for a lot of these conditions.
So there are people who defend the use of the term with "But there are legitimate non-offensive ways to use it, so we should always be allowed to use it!".
Tho, I do think with the point Pariston was trying to make, it is a little oof to just use it unmodified like that.
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Then the overwhelming majority of the usage of a term is negative, the term is negative.
Similarly, anyone that uses the term SJW unironically is an asshole and can instantly be ignored.
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I worded that badly. I'm not talking about every single straight white cis man. Obviously, I'm only talking about the ones who whine about 'virtue signaling' any time they see diversity.
Well, it's also about context too. Like I'm against a company being forced to have a certain number of minorities. I for one would feel extremely offended if I got the job because I was trans and they needed a trans person to feel diverse.
Similarly, anyone that uses the term SJW unironically is an asshole and can instantly be ignored.
But SJWs exist…. I'm not an asshole for using it. -facepalms-
I use it for very sensitive pricks that attack things for no reason but to attack and try to cause outrage. For example, SJWs attack lolicons calling us names etc. and thinking we are predators and shit, when we clearly not. So, they want to be a white knight and thinking they protecting children when they clearly not, but just being an asshole because they don't like that type of artwork. And being a lolicon myself, I have to worry about people attacking me because I like a drawing. Those people that do are an example of SJWs.
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Are you seriously calling me a retard while lecturing me about a term you think is offensive and illegitimate?
Nothing like that, I'm using it in the same vain Rick & Morty used it. "Retard" has evolved to the current to call an idea another person has equivalent to the one a mentally disable person has because the word medically used for it evolved to avoid it being used as a slur, yet here we are meaning that's a senseless battle unless you used it to belittle a mentally disable person.
Claiming that "virtude signaling" has become a vexed political position just mean that further down the road the opposition will start using another terminology for it, when it's deemed inadequate or not to offensive, that's the nature of languages they evolve and adapt with times.
"Virtue Signaling" is political propaganda 101, and unless it's faced with serious Houses Opposition it falls under demagogy. There's nothing new to it, and frankly, it's discussing saying virtue is a bad thing, even if is a null remark, well the opposition to it only spill septic cesspool when they open their mouths. -
I don't think so. Pariston can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the point wasn't to call YOU that, but to refer to the fact that that word used to be completely legitimate. I think it STILL appears in medical textbooks.
"Mental Rtrdation" was and might still be the official medical diagnosis on the books for a lot of these conditions.
So there are people who defend the use of the term with "But there are legitimate non-offensive ways to use it, so we should always be allowed to use it!".
Tho, I do think with the point Pariston was trying to make, it is a little oof to just use it unmodified like that.
I've asked about that and been told it was formally replaced with Down Syndrome, but looking on Wikipedia it seems like they replaced it with the larger category of Intellectual Disability of which Down Syndrome is a subset.
I haven't seen anyone use any variant of "retard" in a professional medical context in over twenty years, so I think it's safe to say that the word is only used as a slur now.
Similarly, anyone that uses the term SJW unironically is an asshole and can instantly be ignored.
Can we add "Extremely Online people" to that?
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It's a bit of a strange issue. Almost all alt-right idiots do use liberally SJW and "virtue signaling" but that doesn't mean that everyone who uses them is a part of them.
All alt-right using a term doesn't mean that it's a term ONLY them use basically.
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But SJWs exist…. I'm not an asshole for using it. -facepalms-
A "social justice warrior" is someone fighting for rights and equality. There is NOTHING wrong with that.
making the term a derogative "SJW" shorthand is a way to insult and dismiss women, minorities, and entire political parties in one breath.
NO ONE who uses the term "SJW" to describe someone else is in the right. They are mostly, not all, but mostly, angry white men who can't stand the idea of anyone else being their equal. That is the group that coined the term and propogated and made it into a shorthand of hate.
If you were not aware of this and were using the term innocently, now you know better. Stop using it, unless you want to be an angry white man that hates the idea of equality, because that is the ONLY thing that term actually means, and the ONLY group its associated with.
On a similar note, "Antifa" is a good thing. It is not a specific group, it means "Anti-fascist" or, "Anti-Nazi." It is a good thing. Anyone that hates Antifa… is probably an angry white man that hates the idea of equality.
SJWs attack lolicons calling us names etc.
The definition of lolicon is LITERALLY "desire for extremely underage women." It comes from "lolita complex." Whatever insane fetish Japan made out of it, that is what it means. Not even like 16 or 17 year old girls with sexual characteristics, but 10-12 year olds.
If you like drawings of younger characters, that's okay. I like Misty from Pokemon and most Ghibli protagonists. Yotsuba is a ton of fun. Digimon is great. Lots of cool child and teenage characters, nothing wrong with that.
If you sexually like young girls, especially when they're still 10-12 year olds, and you yourself are not in that age range, that is another issue entirely. Drawing or not, that IS an issue, legally and morally. THat's not "SJW's persecuting you for no reason", that is people being outright offended and worried by you explicitly saying you are attracted to and want to have sex with underage girls. Because that's what Lolicon IS.
If you thought it was just a cute japanese word for "young girls", it's not. It's specifically "VERY young girls that are sexual." You may want to consider carefully if you actually want to use that specific word to describe yourself in the future.
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Yup, I'm afraid any time I see the term "virtue signaling" I just automatically cringe. It is true that companies and the like do add diversity to 'pander', but… That's not at all a bad thing. What I think people aren't getting is that every. single. thing. is pandering. Straight white cis men want to act like they're some universal default and that the addition of a character whose more diverse in any way is 'pandering'. They're so daft that they can't see that cis white male protagonists are pandering to them.
So I think that the concept of "virtue signaling" is not something that says anything meaningful. It says so much more about the person using it, TBH.
First: I know "Not all Men" yada yada.
But yeah, I agree and I hate it when it happens too.
When Assassin's Creed Odyssey came out, people whined calling the fact that there was a female protagonist and the game had Gay romance options and called that virtue signaling to feminists and LGBT people yada yada.
Then it turned out that the developers wanted the female option to be the ONLY option, and the studio FORCED them to add the Male option to pander to male gamers, and the Gay options were a result of that.
Womp Womp.
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Nothing like that, I'm using it in the same vain Rick & Morty used it. "Retard" has evolved to the current to call an idea another person has equivalent to the one a mentally disable person has because the word medically used for it evolved to avoid it being used as a slur, yet here we are meaning that's a senseless battle unless you used it to belittle a mentally disable person.
Claiming that "virtude signaling" has become a vexed political position just mean that further down the road the opposition will start using another terminology for it, when it's deemed inadequate or not to offensive, that's the nature of languages they evolve and adapt with times.
"Virtue Signaling" is political propaganda 101, and unless it's faced with serious Houses Opposition it falls under demagogy. There's nothing new to it, and frankly, it's discussing saying virtue is a bad thing, even if is a null remark, well the opposition to it only spill septic cesspool when they open their mouths.Demon Rin is correct, I didn't intended for the word to be taken serious, I'm intended for calling the moot point it generates, for as old words get labelled offensive new slurs surge, so it's a retrograde point associate a negative term to a word for it will only ignite the creativity of it's users to come with a even worse slur. Creating a official PC dictionary only instigate more online slurs coming into irl, if you find a therm offensive stopping using and address those close to it why you thing is such or else you won't make a difference about it.
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A "social justice warrior" is someone fighting for rights and equality. There is literally NOTHING wrong with that.
making the term a derogative "SJW" shorthand is a way to insult and dismiss women, minorities, and entire political parties in one breath.
NO ONE who uses the term "SJW" to describe someone else is in the right. They are mostly, not all, but mostly, angry white men who can't stand the idea of anyone else being their equal. That is the group that coined the term and propogated and made it into a shorthand of hate.
If you were not aware of this and were using the term innocently, now you know better. Stop using it, unless you want to be an angry white man that hates the idea of equality, because that is the ONLY thing that term actually means, and the ONLY group its associated with.
On a similar note, "Antifa" is a good thing. It is not a specific group, it means "Anti-fascist" or, "Anti-Nazi." It is a good thing. Anyone that hates Antifa… is probably an angry white man that hates the idea of equality.
Well, SJW is also used for people that attack people for no reason for the purpose of "justice" as in the example of lolicons. It's all about context, and I'm not gonna stop using it because those SJWs that attack me for being a lolicon are wrong. They not doing anything for justice. It's the same with trying to say something is racist when it clearly isn't. Like Jynx from Pokemon or Aunt Jemina. Those are SJWs to me, not people that are activists or fighting for actual rights. It's used for the sensitive pricks. You may think it's a angry white male, but even people that are not white use it. Though Antifa is also the radical left and can be violent and shit if they don't get want they want. Just because that's what the word means, doesn't mean that the radical left wing people are good people. Try to see it from my perspective and how I get attacked by people.
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The definition of lolicon is LITERALLY "older men that desire extremely underage women." It comes from "lolita complex." Whatever insane fetish Japan made out of it, that is what it means.
If you like drawings of younger characters, that's okay. I like Misty from Pokemon and most Ghibli protagonists. Lots of cool teenage characters, literally nothing wrong with that.
If you sexually like young girls, especially when they're still 10-12 year olds, and you yourself are not in that age range, that is another issue entirely. Drawing or not, that IS an issue, legally and morally. THat's not "SJW's persecuting you for no reason", that is people being outright offended by you saying you want to have sex with underage girls..
You may want to consider carefully if you actually want to use that word to describe yourself in the future.
I actually am a lolicon, as I like loli hentai. I know what I'm using it for. I'm not into actual real children, just lolis. There's a big difference. It really is just a drawing and it's not hurting anyone. For starters many in the lolicon community are against CP. I also well reported actual sexual predators to the FBI. So, it is SJWs persecuting me for no reason because they want to force their viewpoints on us, when it's completely harmless. As long as no child is being hurt, there is no issue.