In case anyone missed the original thread: https://hexbear.net/post/3182230
QuietCupcake
joined 3 years ago
= redditWelcome back! Despite the weird-ass struggle yesterday, plenty of us sincerely missed you (clearly) and are glad to see you back. There were several Ulysses-isms that I appreciated and was disappointed to find the site so lacking in after your departure. Not the least of which being the presence of a great void in the necessary criticism, painful for some though it may be, of treat-brained treats-worship.
But setting the controversial stuff aside, I think we all can agree that this site's emoji game in general is on a level beyond nearly all other spaces, but that you are a legend even among the legendary emojiists. I stand in awe of some of the great works produced here, and yours are primary among the masterpieces that come to mind.
Anyway, congratulations on your well-lived life and your achievements (and relative freedom from bazinga conversations and pop slop monoliths!) 
Not a torrent, but if you're only looking for a free way to watch it, I just started streaming it here: https://www.braflix.ru/movie/808482
I thought he was pretty cool, mostly. Yeah, he would definitely get into heated arguments over what was ultimately mundane things, but then... so do most of the regulars/power-users here, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. On the whole, it just means you're passionate about a lot of things and have strong opinions. There's nothing wrong with that and nothing wrong with arguing about those things, even passionately. Now, if a person who gets into a lot of heated arguments over these small things does so with toxicity, then yes that is bad. But it's a separate issue of toxicity being bad. I would concede that UlyssesT did way too often approach being toxic and even cross over that line sometimes in the way he'd get mad and go super personal in attack mode. (And again, he was not the only regular user here to do that). Just saying, we should criticize that and not the fact that he was opinionated about things that other people aren't. I also feel like if we are going to criticize a user for that, UlyssesT is far from the only one who should be put in the crosshairs for it. He was just so prolific, it was impossible to miss.
He also just hated anyone who enjoyed something he didn't
See, I don't feel like that's true. I enjoyed Gambo's source material (still do, actually) and even defended it against UlyssesT once. He did get mad at me and he was very vehement about it, because of course he was. But then he talked to me about other stuff a day later and was perfectly comradely with me, even while mentioning the previous argument in a non-confrontational way.
As for the Star Citizen thing, if I remember right, he was one of the people who put money in early on and got duped. So it was really personal for him for understandable reasons. He probably did post too much about it, but I just didn't read or engage since I wasn't interested. I think people should be able to post about their pet peeves as much as they want, so long as it is in kept in the appropriate places and made so that it can be ignored by those who don't want to see it.
I just disagree that he was "overwhelmingly negative." He was intense and that doesn't jive with a lot of people. But "overwhelmingly negative"? No. He contributed a lot of positive things here too, the way I remember it.
It's not okay because of the association, which does indeed mean
Did you not finish the sentence there? Both the ***ard term and "moron" mean essentially the same thing.
it would be ok [in the future] if we gave it a few more decades to become more fully ingrained in society.
Though that is certainly not what I would recommend compared to the much more reasonable solution of "stop calling people that for any reason".
The fuck? Are you trying to quote me out of context or did you really not understand me? I was saying it still would not be ok even if the ***ard slur were given a few more decades to become more ingrained, which it was well on its way to becoming when efforts were made to point out the harmfulness of its use.
The rest of your comment is mostly just 
pedantry. "Idiot" absolutely was and is used in an intentionally derogatory way, but most people, even those with developmental disabilities like those I mentioned, do not feel like the use of that word is a slur against them. (If they did, then I would make the same recommendations for it as I did "moron.") Yes, they also, some of them, had been called, let's use as an example "shit-for-brains." But if someone casually used "shit-for-brains" directed elsewhere but in conversation around them, they didn't have the same gut-punch reaction because they intuitively knew the phrase didn't have the same kind of history in specifically ridiculing and demeaning people like them.
Take "bitch" as a similar example. We (here) have made an effort not to use that term because of its misogynist connotations. But what about the countless instances it was and is used in situations completely devoid of those connotations? "Man, life is a bitch and then you die." "They're just bitching about the TV being too loud." And on and on. "Bitch" being used ubiquitously in circumstances where it is not at all being directed at women or as a way to emasculate someone is still looked down upon here for reasons I hope are obvious, reasons that I would have hoped regular posters here would recognize as being the same reasons why it would be good to advocate for replacing "moron" in our collective vocabulary. I don't go around policing people every time the say something like "oh wow, bitchin'!" but at the same time, especially in spaces that are ostensibly sensitive to culturally ingrained sexism, racism, ableism, transphobia, homophobia, etc., I have an expectation that people recognize the history and the fact that it low-key does make many women uncomfortable and they would be doing a net good to make an attempt not to say that.
Basically, it comes down to the feelings and opinions of the group who has been oppressed and is still stigmatized. How do people of color feel about each of the many terms historically used to describe them? Are some of those terms better than others, on a spectrum of acceptability and also dependent on who uses them? Is there a significant portion of women who feel that the word "bitch" is too deeply entwined with misogyny to be salvaged despite it's ubiquitous innocently-intended use and does its use make them uncomfortable? Are people who suffer from developmental disabilities made uncomfortable by the casual use of "idiot"? The ones I've known were not, but all of them, every single one I talked to about it, got upset by people calling others morons, specifically because of the way the word had been used against them. Even the ones who would not have been able to articulate an understanding of the history of how the word was used still had an intuitive sense of how it had been. Personally, I am with them and would always stand in solidarity next to them against the people who simply can't make the slightest effort to try to use another word when they notice themselves calling someone a "moron."
Also, I thought you didn't want to get into this discourse.
edit: autismdragon, I didn't mean for your post's thread to get derailed like this, I apologize that it did.
As someone who is neurodivergent and has worked with people that are more severely effected with developmental issues who frequently get called "morons" specifically because of their disabilities, I think you are way off base. Just because the ***ard slur was recent in common and casual use and still is to a large extent, that doesn't make the use of it ok, or that it would be ok if we gave it a few more decades to become more fully ingrained in society.
I really don't want to start this Discourse again
Then don't.
Edit: And to be clear to anyone reading this, it's not like I'm calling for the word to be banned on hexbear or even telling people not to use it. I was asking that comrades be more mindful of their use of it and recognize that when they do use it, it does do harm to many neurodivergent people who might be reading, the same way other slurs for them do. All I'm saying is that the respectful, thoughtful, and comradely thing to do would simply be to make an effort to replace it with less splash-damaging terms in your vocabulary when you are able to do so. Because again, there are people with disabilities who feel hurt by its casual use.
oh wait, different Chomsky.
Without being at all versed in linguistics myself, can you share some of what he's done in the field that you think is wrong or off the mark? I'm sure I can find some linguistics criticism of him on the web, but I'd be curious to read some criticism of Chomsky particularly from a hexbear's perspective.
edit: sorry, I only now saw that The_Jewish_Cuban already asked you the same question.
This is great, thank you! Added to my podcast feed. 
It was @[email protected] and she makes excellent points. She won me over, as someone who was a huge Nirvana fan, I am convinced.
Kurt Cobain Will Have His Revenge on the Straights [cw: discussion of dysphoria, transphobia, homophobia, eating disorders, and suicide]
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