The annoying thing is, it’s not just the dumbest person from high school. It’s people who seem normal, until anything political is brought up.
I’m old, is political just slang for biggotry and woke just slang for empathy? I can’t keep up with modern language.
“Political” is not white, or male, or straight, or Christian.
“Woke” = accepting of events and / or circumstances that have had in-/direct influence on their lives, likely preventing then from reaching parity.
So you’re pretty much spot-on.
Hey so I’m a straight white male (not by choice) and I’d like to stop being lumped in with assholes.
Like, lots of assholes are straight white males, I get it. But we’re overwhelmingly decent dudes.
Also, dude, “male” is not the preferred nomenclature anymore
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Why do you think they are talking about you? Projecting insecurities? That’s what your reply seems like
And yes, “male” is still the preferred way to refer to… people who identify as men.
That was a joke, Susan
And no, “men” is actually the preferred term for people who identify as men. Male and female refer to biological sex characteristics. Man and woman are gender identities.
“NoT aLl Men”
If you don’t do the bad things then they’re not talking about you. But they say “men” because it’s almost always men.
Example: men are rapists. => Not all men are rapists, but the vast majority of rapists are men.
So you don’t need to feel sensitive about this, unless you somehow think you’re guilty of whatever they’re talking about.
“Some men”. Fixed. Just add one word. The fact that you’re so fixated on gaslighting people into thinking that generalizations are only okay when it targets the correct sex is very telling of your ignorance.
No one says “all men”. You’re implying it.
Dogs bark. Not all, of course. But no one says some.
“Men” is a classification set that includes all individuals of a sex. You’re wrong categorically and philosophically, and the more you suggest otherwise the more you just look like a bigot.
I always heard people talking about how many of their Facebook friends lost their minds with the Qanon stuff, but that wasn’t my experience at all, everyone I still saw by that point was pretty reasonable. I started talking to one of my friends from high school about it and it turns out that the handful of people in our friend group that did start posting Qanon and Christofascist nonsense were also the same people who unfriended me back in 2012 after I came out as trans. It was pretty great, actually.
I’m from the south, I literally have 50% or more of my highschool blocked from shit they said from 2018 to 2020, then I stopped using Facebook
I saw one podcast with Rogan years ago and thought, “wow, this guy really listens to the people he has on, the guest has interesting things to say and it’s intriguing to watch.” Then I saw more. He saw the same light all these bastards see, the conservative base full of money and completely devoid of any sense or rational. I don’t know if I can truly blame these people for taking easy millions, but it’s also pretty hard to definitively say which ones are just cons for the money and which ones are true believers of their own nonsense.
They’re complete suckers. I too realized quickly Rogan was just another Alex Jones with different frosting.
The US warned people about being suckers in 1947: https://youtu.be/vGAqYNFQdZ4
Why does anyone keep in contact with the dumbest people they knew from high school? Why would you want to?
It’s just weird to see mold fester. Most people I have this association with are people I’m forced to interact with; eg., work, relatives.
Even dumb people have friends.
