it's so weird to me how some of the most contested things between "SJW" and slightly conservative communities are things that are... really really easy??
like, "please don't say slurs" and "use the pronouns ppl want [or they]" (which is especially easy on faceless internet sites) are... extremely easy? but this is the most vicious stuff not even like, the actual major disagreements on economy and human right (i.e. "what if people weren't starving and sick" versus "fuck you got mine")
and it's people getting angry about safe spaces, pronouns, and being asked not to say slurs and racist jokes which gets them into the circles where the Literal Neo-Nazi Recruiters hang out and pull them into those ideologies.
I just don't understand why it's easier to become a literal neo-nazi (not that they _all_ do that...) than to like, decide not to say slurs? it's such an easy simple thing you can do that makes a world of difference to not making other people uncomfortable
@shel because people follow what their "friends" do, and some people just have shitty friends from the start
@boots this makes a ton of sense too. it often seems that someone's political beliefs are just shaped by whoever is nice to them and whoever they're surrounded by
@boots yeah i kinda get the desire to mock since the left does that too, but those places are still way more vicious than "why is your name blowjob portraits"