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[Scelly9]

I treat everyone with a modicum of respect and give them a chance to show me how neat they are, until or unless they act like an asshole.

This is a really good philosophy.

[Devling]

I treat everyone with a modicum of respect and give them a chance to show me how neat they are, until or unless they act like an asshole.

This is a really good philosophy.

This is pretty much the best philosophy.

[Hanslanda]

Except for fundies. I hate fundies.

[/obligatory hypocritical statement to make self look like asshole]

[Oliolli]

If they're the types of fundies who try to shove their faith down everyone's throat, whether the others are interested or not, they are assholes in my book and thus it is OK not to treat them with respect.

[Loud Whispers]

If they're the types of fundies who try to shove their faith down everyone's throat, whether the others are interested or not, they are assholes in my book and thus it is OK not to treat them with respect.

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How do you feel about Fundies in space?

[hops]

"I am a superior being. Your primitive mind can not begin to grasp what it is like to be a god"

Weirder is that this was said on 4chan's /hm/ board after a guy sparked a discussion about gay sex in lucid dreams.

[Loud Whispers]

"I am a superior being. Your primitive mind can not begin to grasp what it is like to be a god"

Weirder is that this was said on 4chan's /hm/ board after a guy sparked a discussion about gay sex in lucid dreams.

They've been hanging around /fit/ haven't they.

[SealyStar]

I said if you use the word “cis” don’t bother tweeting me.

To some people, that probably belongs here as "stupid". That's what I feel like sometimes, though.

[MagmaMcFry]

I said if you use the word “cis” don’t bother tweeting me.

To some people, that probably belongs here as "stupid". That's what I feel like sometimes, though.

I personally think that the community of people who regularly use "cis" is as far as I know about them, to be really blunt, a bunch of circle-jerking attention whores. To be less blunt, they are collectively enabling each other to stick their non-privileges up everyone's faces and flip out under any sort of discrimination, even if most of it is unintentional or even reasonable (as in the Penny Arcade incident). I guess some of them are worse off in life because of their cisness or transness or whatever, but I will not undertake any more-than-minor efforts to support them. Example: Under no circumstances would I begin my speeches with "Ladies, gentlemen, third-gender, genderfluid, ambisexual, etc...". Checking my privileges is not a thing I see much reason to do.

[kaijyuu]

I'm trying to parse what you said there Magma and I've determined I have no idea what you mean when you say "privileges." Define, please?


My best guess is you're saying you should be able to call people whatever you want and they shouldn't be offended, which of course is ridiculous. I'm hoping I'm wrong, though.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm trying to parse what you said there Magma and I've determined I have no idea what you mean when you say "privileges." Define, please?

The lands of tumblrjerk offs are fraught with the repeated mantra of 'check your privilege,' and your worth as an individual is based on how unprivileged you are. So a trans-ablist, third-gender, other-spirit, homosexual, obese trans-homo erectus is the most valuable person alive, or at the very least, extinct.
Everyone else can go check their privilege, as "everyone" knows the quality of your life is determined by a points based system of your most superficial features.
Most of the internet is critical of 'check your privilege' being an 'orrible thing to base a social movement on, as it is used to silence criticism without thought or reason and reduces humanity to a video-game level of simple stats based on your adjectives. And they're pretty much the total opposite of politically incorrect, in that instead of spitting on all taboos and ingrained cultural respect, they uphold totalitarian political correctness to the point where they say homophobia is an attack on straight women and feel it is acceptable to run people over for giving you weird looks.

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You don't even want to know what happens when they get NSFW. Shit actually gets crazy. You know how 'dis cis scum' isn't supposed to be taken literally?
...They do.

[Graknorke]

Didn't we have a twitter about this before that everyone was posting about for a while?

EDIT: Found it.
The guy who runs the twitter sometimes acts more offensive than I would like but still does a good job at picking out crazy.

DOUBLEDIT: Relevant to discussion.

TRIPLEDIT: And some lightheartedness to keep things getting too serious.

[MagmaMcFry]

I'm trying to parse what you said there Magma and I've determined I have no idea what you mean when you say "privileges." Define, please?

Well, as far as I know about these people (is there a common name for them?), they refer to a "privilege" as "a physical/mental/emotional property which is accepted in general, bigoted, society and does not, directly or indirectly, lower your ability to achieve whatever you want". Commonly stated "privileges" include "not being fat", "not being disabled", "not being stupid", "not being single", "not being ugly", "not being (most of the items on this list)", and so forth, which means people like you and me have a damn lot of privileges.

"Check your privileges" is a commonly used term there, and it means something like "You should not take your privileges for granted". It is used when a "cis"-user without a specific privilege witnesses a person with that privilege use or take for granted this privilege, in a context that tries to make the privileged person feel personally responsible for the privilege difference. My guess is that they feel envious a lot, and need to vent this pent-up jealousy in personal attacks, then rationalize that by randomly appending "#social #injustice #oppression" to their thoughts and then thinking about something else instead of realizing that they're being horribly irrational.

Gabe from Penny Arcade for example "took for granted" that all "women" have vaginas, and suddenly a crapload of "women" without vaginas (as in "people with a female 'consciousness'") got butthurt about that and decided to spam him with hate, which was IMO entirely unjustified, since "women" can generally also refer to "people with vaginas", and "The Women's Guide To Masturbation" is a context in which anyone can see that "women" here has the second meaning, except those people who have made it a habit to get offended at anything, even if they have to pedantically misrepresent stuff for that purpose. Even with the first meaning, "The Women's Guide To Masturbation" still sounds better than "The People-With-Physically-Existing-Functional-And-Stimulatable-Female-Human-Sexual-Organs-And-The-Ability-To-Erotically-Stimulate-Them's Guide To Masturbation".

3xEdit: With all those new words they invent, you'd think they could by now differentiate between physical females and mental females.

My best guess is you're saying you should be able to call people whatever you want and they shouldn't be offended, which of course is ridiculous. I'm hoping I'm wrong, though.

Good thing you're wrong, because that would, in fact, be ridiculous. I'm just saying they should stop being offended by whatever you say.

Edit: NINJAS
EditEdit: Oh right, it's because I took so long to post this.

[penguinofhonor]

So the new way to discredit any trans activists is to lump them in with the tumblr crazies as soon as they say the word cis? Good to know.

[SealyStar]

Whenever I hear the word 'cis', I immediately think of cis/trans isomerism.

Chemists

I'm trying to parse what you said there Magma and I've determined I have no idea what you mean when you say "privileges." Define, please?

The lands of tumblrjerk offs are fraught with the repeated mantra of 'check your privilege,' and your worth as an individual is based on how unprivileged you are. So a trans-ablist, third-gender, other-spirit, homosexual, obese trans-homo erectus is the most valuable person alive, or at the very least, extinct.
Everyone else can go check their privilege, as "everyone" knows the quality of your life is determined by a points based system of your most superficial features.
Most of the internet is critical of 'check your privilege' being an 'orrible thing to base a social movement on, as it is used to silence criticism without thought or reason and reduces humanity to a video-game level of simple stats based on your adjectives. And they're pretty much the total opposite of politically incorrect, in that instead of spitting on all taboos and ingrained cultural respect, they uphold totalitarian political correctness to the point where they say homophobia is an attack on straight women and feel it is acceptable to run people over for giving you weird looks.

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You don't even want to know what happens when they get NSFW. Shit actually gets crazy. You know how 'dis cis scum' isn't supposed to be taken literally?
...They do.

And this is frighteningly correct. My favorite:

Most of the internet is critical of 'check your privilege' being an 'orrible thing to base a social movement on, as it is used to silence criticism without thought or reason and reduces humanity to a video-game level of simple stats based on your adjectives.

Of course, there are the non-SJWs on Tumblr. But if you focus on that group you get enough material to fill multiple pages on this thread - it's come up at least thrice now just since I found this thread.