Quote (thesnipa @ Jul 13 2020 01:27pm)
no one "deserves" another person's money, not a child nor a society, except taxes. if u think u deserve more, tax more. anything after taxes goes where u want it to, not in a slush fund wrapped in red tape while your kind makes due with just one jetski.
im middle class, will prob be lucky to hit upper middle class, and ill die feeling this way.
Okay, but that's a position that most people don't accept. Like I said, it's an argument fundamentally against inheritance. If you don't accept inheritance, then it follows that reparations shouldn't happen, but it also follows that the wealth generated across generations shouldn't happen.
Quote (thesnipa @ Jul 13 2020 01:24pm)
1. where did the silly idea that if you lose work or money or w/e it doesn't "count as canceling" because you "still can have a job". that's dumb, whether its a cancelled acting job, a cancelled appearance, or just lose fans. all of this is canceling, there's no threshold that requires utter loss of relevancy, life, and work prospects. "hey sexual assult victim, at least u didnt get raped". like wtf is that? and why do i hear it so often.
2. "its existed forever" is a garbage argument that i hear too often too, so has covid, opium deaths, rape, etc. when something goes haywire and a massive rate changes occur it's noteworthy, even if it's justified.
i think honestly some people are just so scared and have such a moral highground that they're just going to forever say "ok ok ok ok ok ok ok" when trans people want to rapidly change language. it's stupid. let's focus on protecting workplace rights, housing rights, etc. instead of having 4 hour circular arguments about the "male vagina and female penis". do what u want in your bedroom, wear what you want in public, shit/piss wherever u want. within reason. dont tell me that my views of being a man are invalid or transphobic, dont tell my wife that overcoming societies shame around her vagina and being proud of it as a woman makes her transphobic. if that's your viewpoint fuck off, plain and simple.
On principal, I don't see a problem with "cancel culture". Everything is not acceptable, and some things are bad enough to deserve societal retribution.
I do agree that there are specific cases where it has gone too far. That CEO who got fired for being part of a hate group at 17 that he made a conscious effort to leave and distance himself from because he recognized it was terrible being fired was really bad.
I don't really care about language much. Language changes, and it's incumbent on everybody to be able to figure it out. However, it's also incumbent on listeners to interpret things in a way that the speaker intended to and understand the core message. I think both of these are often lost.
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