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Can't we talk about this?

forteglyceride:

nsfwsb:

tumblr does for social justice what peta does for animal rights

this is seriously the best analogy ever

forteglyceride:

nsfwsb:

tumblr does for social justice what peta does for animal rights

this is seriously the best analogy ever

Hi guys! Just reblogging to point out that PETA seriously fucks animal rights up by performing borderline terrorist acts of vandalism that cause the courts to side with the big name animal abusers just so as not to appear to be supporting the violence and criminal activity by PETA.

I certainly hope this is not what tumblr does for social justice.

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I Sauntered Vaguely Downwards: kurtzsplayground: I Sauntered Vaguely Downwards: LGBT Question...

kurtzsplayground:

I Sauntered Vaguely Downwards: LGBT Question time.

kurtzsplayground:

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Back again, I hope you reply to this one, though I feel almost certain you won’t.


First, thank you so much for continuing to speak with me, there are many who’d ignore a chance for discussion and just not respond.

Second, I am a certified conversationalist and debater, and I too have a badge, discussions are always worth my time, as there is no surer sign of human decency than the ability to disagree with eachother and still communicate why and how effectively, it is one of the things that grants us civilisation.

To begin.
“Slur, Noun:
an insinuation or allegation about someone that is likely to insult them or damage their reputation.”

Notice the word insult there.
Cracker is a slur as much as any of the terms you would describe as one.
Do your research before making arguments from ignorance.

I am sorry if you feel that I sound overly academic, that is merely the way I talk. It is okay that it makes you suspicious and wary, your constant misspellings and grammatical errors place me in a similar state, but I am willing to look past it, as your arguments are quite good.

It is not your anger with your oppressors, it is your attacks on those who are not oppressing you that I was calling unjust, but, I see validity in your point about blaming whole groups for their oppression, so I shall retract any claim it is unjust, as you argued the justice behind it well enough to convince me.
Though doing so does not truly help your cause, you are right in saying it is quite rare, so it does not truly hinder it either, instead it is merely an expression of sentiment with little great effect, and thus no issue to me.

Your recent post claims I am blaming oppressed people for their oppression.

I cannot see how that is so, oppressed people are being oppressed because their oppressors are foolish and small minded, the oppressed are merely being uncivilised and harsh with their broad insults.

 

I am enjoying the exchange of opinions, though I fear perhaps you are not trying particularly hard to understand my arguments or point of view.
Ah well, c’est la vie, this discussion was fun while it lasted, and you have the dubious honour of being one of very few people to change my opinion on something of late.
Nonetheless, you feel I am not worth your time, so I thank you for your conversation and wish you good luck with further endeavours

 -Kurtz

I Sauntered Vaguely Downwards: LGBT Question time.

kurtzsplayground:

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Thank you for your contribution! I love seeing people share their opinions, and I especially like how you’ve gone to such lengths to give a clear and well thought out argument.
While I do agree with your overall premise, that a privileged group have no real right to take offence at slights to them by an  underprivileged group, in that instead of wasting energy on responding to and taking negative emotions from such actions, I do however take serious issue with your saying that cracker is not a slur, as it is not a term I have ever heard used without an implication of hatred and/or an implicit threat.

I do sense from some of your response that you feel offended by my question, and draw conclusions as to my beliefs from it.
This interests me, as I think there are many valid viewpoints regarding this topic, and that not only is yours one of them, but all of the viewpoints posed at the bottom of my original post are.
My one problem with your response though, is that you assign blame to all members of the privileged group for the abuse of the underprivileged, this is the most unjust action a person with a legitimate grievance can perform, and I strongly suggest you see to it.

Blaming all Cis/White/Male/Straight people for crimes performed against Trans/Non-White/Female/LGB people is doing nothing but harming your own cause, blaming them or being overly confrontational to them as a whole regardless of individuals who are on your side, or who are unaligned in the debate, merely discourages these people from speaking out in a field that desperately needs more open discussion.

Once again, thank you for your contribution, I’m glad you feel so strongly about this, and I hope if you feel the need to discuss the matter further you will.

LGBT Question time.


The topic of discussion is hate speech and terms of abuse, please feel free to discuss, especially if you disagree with me or some one else, but keep it civil.
So, my LGBTerrific friends, and the rest of you, we need to have a little talk.
I know many people, including myself, take offence at just seeing certain words, namely derogatory terms that insult folk for petty things like their ethnicity or their orientation.
Now, what brought this up, is I was going through tag searches to read some LGBT discussions on terms of offence, and I found blogs where one moment they talk about how seeing the word “Tranny” used by someone is instant grounds to hate them, and then in the next post they can use “Cisgender Scum” which, I have since discovered, is common enough a term to be third from the top on googles recommendations for cisgender.
Personally, I take offence at being called things like “Cracker” or “White boy” and for some reason just seeing the term “Cisgender Scum” is enough to make me feel insulted.
Thus: Topics of discussion- Are they being hypocritical? Should I suck it up as worthy cost for being part of the most privileged subheading in society? Should one just accept that these folk are being given a hard time and need a way to blow off steam, even if that way is insulting to some?
If you want to answer this in more than 140 characters, you can always inbox, I’ll publish you as long as you’re civil.
Thoughts?

komradekrisis:

geistygeist:

ipgd:

stormcloaca:

richwhitelesbian:

djddy:

vinceborg2050:

beesmygod:

megasonger:

doctormettic:

You play as a piece of paper and you team up with other pieces of papers to go and fight other pieces of paper on elementary school art dioramas so you can save another piece of paper and oddly enough you do this by collecting rocks

a dirty hobo gets lost in the jungle and eats animals off the ground
0/10

man gets lost in seaside town and refuses to ask for directions

robot with only one wheel hobbles around a walrus theme park

middle-aged man is falsely accused and is forced to clean up a whole town

go to high school in a shitty rural town and force yourself to make friends

you’re dumped on an island full of racist douchelords and an active volcano

struggle to watch a movie while your girlfriend passive aggressively nags you because you didn’t remember it was your anniversary

A cyborg who always wears sunglasses runs around at night talking to badly-voiced characters and uncovering conspiracies.

Nine fully grown men are paid by a mysterious organisation to kill each other while wearing silly hats.

Assassins chase a young person because of a piece of shrapnel stuck in their chest from a battle they were a bystander in when they were child. In response to this they become a mass murderer/walking environmental disaster and are eventually hired by the government as a reward for proving themselves so adept at killing folk

komradekrisis:

geistygeist:

ipgd:

stormcloaca:

richwhitelesbian:

djddy:

vinceborg2050:

beesmygod:

megasonger:

doctormettic:

You play as a piece of paper and you team up with other pieces of papers to go and fight other pieces of paper on elementary school art dioramas so you can save another piece of paper and oddly enough you do this by collecting rocks

a dirty hobo gets lost in the jungle and eats animals off the ground

0/10

man gets lost in seaside town and refuses to ask for directions

robot with only one wheel hobbles around a walrus theme park

middle-aged man is falsely accused and is forced to clean up a whole town

go to high school in a shitty rural town and force yourself to make friends

you’re dumped on an island full of racist douchelords and an active volcano

struggle to watch a movie while your girlfriend passive aggressively nags you because you didn’t remember it was your anniversary

A cyborg who always wears sunglasses runs around at night talking to badly-voiced characters and uncovering conspiracies.

Nine fully grown men are paid by a mysterious organisation to kill each other while wearing silly hats.

Assassins chase a young person because of a piece of shrapnel stuck in their chest from a battle they were a bystander in when they were child. In response to this they become a mass murderer/walking environmental disaster and are eventually hired by the government as a reward for proving themselves so adept at killing folk

(Source: mylittlefangirl)

In Japan I bet the phrase “Gag Comic” means something very different to what it does in western publications.

ruraljackdaw:

The Gripping Saga

Made rebloggable for Steven

Oh hey, I actually have a related thing about this.
Y’know how people call homosexuals “Queens”

A queen is also the term for a female cat.

So being a gay is like being a cat.


Fuck man, being gay must be awesome

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Trying to avoid using a full blown audiobook voice so as to be more approachable sounding.

Might upload a better recording later