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rage-cry I whined about cracker being a slur and those mean ol Hexbears just called me a cracker more instead of debating merage-cry

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[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 15 points 9 months ago

i dont think its a slur, but he's kinda right.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 16 points 9 months ago

There are plenty of people who are interested in socialism, but if they show up to a socialist org and get called a cracker they'll leave

I don't think that's a real scenario that's worth worrying about. Where are these socialist orgs that these people are going to show up at and be called crackers right away? Its silly. That's why I'm making light of it, because this is just an unserious concern

[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 19 points 9 months ago

Where are these socialist orgs that these people are going to show up at and be called crackers right away?

There are some pretty weird Maoist groups out there...

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 12 points 9 months ago

michael-laugh i suppose that's true. I still think it's a made up concern, Maoists aside

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

And those Maoist groups (not all Maoist groups, those specifically) are welcome to implode

[-] blakeus12@hexbear.net 6 points 9 months ago

that's absolutely true, but im pretty sure the commenter was talking about the site

[-] nohaybanda@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

Let’s be real, we do no organising here. And that’s fine, this place is mostly a place to unwind and feel sane in a world of darkest reaction.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

It doesn't happen in real life because in person everyone understands that you don't insult people you're trying to work with.

"I can't imagine people saying this face-to-face" is a sign that we should ask why we're saying it at all.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago

It's not that i can't imagine it. Its that it just doesn't doesn't happen. Its a made up concern

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

because in person everyone understands that you don't insult people you're trying to work with

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

I don't understand what you're actually concerned about

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Allowing casual race-based insults is bad, even if they're directed at white people. We know this is bad because no significant in-person org allows it. Allowing it here is the definition of extremely online behavior.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

People aren't getting called cracker in real life, not because its such a terrible insult, but because that has just never been a thing that happens, because white people are not oppressed in any kind of racialized way. I think its an extremely silly thing to be concerned about.

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

I don't think people are getting called cracker in real life. I don't think it's a terrible insult, but it is an insult. Of course white people aren't oppressed. None of my comments have said anything like any of this.

I don't think I can state what I'm talking about more clearly, and I don't think you've been trying to understand what I'm saying, so I'm going to disengage.

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 3 points 9 months ago

Fair. Disengage

[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 2 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure the trolley problem nor Russel's Teapot are legitimate either; I think the value is in the very clear and specificity of the thought experiment.

(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out...)

[-] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 5 points 9 months ago

(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out...)

No, but they can very rapidly fall into idealist question-begging, though it is worth noting that the prompt you are giving this comparison to is not clear enough to be a useful thought experiment even by liberal standards. It is just a hazy hypothetical.

[-] IzyaKatzmann@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

i think i really hurt myself in confusion in this thread; i can barely piece together what i was saying or what i meant.

i'll leave the utopian/idealist thought experiments à la roko's basilisk & what's really real to the folks on effectivr altrusim forums...

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out...)

I got some bad news for you there lol

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