Too obvious to be funny, but i still wanted to draw a shitpost.

  • Doug [he/him]
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    11 months ago

    So you don’t shit in you own house, just in others? That’s not really improving anything.

    • a_talking_is2 [comrade/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      11 months ago

      jesse-wtf What are you even trying to say? That our “brigading” somehow caused them to behave like a racist, homophobe, transphobe, sexist .etc? Look, even most people who’s country was invaded don’t use it as excuse for this kind of discrimination. And you’re talking about some shitposting in political threads?

      • Doug [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        I’m saying this makes it look like you think your shit doesn’t stink. You’re not the bastion of reason it looks like you’re trying to present yourself as.

        I have no idea how you got to the interpretation you put there.

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                11 months ago

                Just because someone is wrong doesn’t make the other person right. American politics are a great demonstration of that.

                Similarly just because someone is a giant piece of shit doesn’t mean someone else is incapable of being crappy. I don’t know how it reads differently without assuming I’m incapable of understanding that.

                • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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                  There are a lot of people who think being civil with bigots is as bad as being the source of bigotry itself. Civility with everyone is not a universal value.

                  Some people take great offense when they see someone viewing bigotry as a failure in civility, a moral failing on the same level as being uncivil to bigots.

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                    11 months ago

                    I can understand that. I think part of what I’ve been failing to communicate with many is that civility works in stereo.

                    The comic, at face value, shows a breakdown on the bigot end. That fella should definitely be told to fuck off. But my complaint was the misrepresentation of the comic. If the start is the same but the response is something more like “the media is lying and you’re racist if you believe it” (this is hyperbole to make a point) then civility was not extended to civility. The bigot is still a bigot and should still be dealt with accordingly when they demonstrate it, but until they have exposed themselves as one why shouldn’t they be given the courtesy in case they’re not.

                    Does that track?