dakki-dono
When I go into towns, everyone calls me a "******".
Or they try to, and it's hilarious because it's obvious that they don't know that there is an option to turn off language filters so it ends up like "n!@@er". Then they ask for my devil tail.
Yeah sure let me just send the trade.
I'm not even really black irl. Bigotry does grind my gears, though, so I'm first to report because I at least know not to argue with 11 year olds on the internet.
Considering the average age of towns users, it's really not surprising, though. It's like the kids slinging racial slurs and calling people "f*****t" on xbox live. Kids + Action + No Repercussions = self-entitled unfiltered a*****e brats.
The internet is the same place that's a safe haven for people who believe in having sex with infants, that women want to be raped, that all men are pigs, that muslims should be eradicated, everyone religious is stupid, that gays are disgusting, and that there's such a problem as "men's rights". And they can fester here freely. It's why I don't use sites like Reddit that support this "free speech" that is really just giving a place where these smegma chucks of society can gather and take notes and build strength.
"Free Speech" is not free when it is preventing the equal freedoms of other people.
The "it's the internet" argument is just as destructive as any other dismissive cover-up of things that make people uncomfortable.
I knew you were cool, but that deserves a standing goddamn ovation.
That's it. That's
exactly what pisses me off about it. The dogged perpetuation that it's
perfectly okay to s**t all over other people's rights. And because it's 'just the Internet', they're above recompense, they're being 'free', and any act of 'censorship' is impugning on their goddamn liberty. When all that's happening is they're not getting what they want, ie. parroting the shitdribbling discriminatory nonsense they've absorbed from peers and media and using it to directly hurt others.
And the idea of not being able to do so
offends them.
That internalized entitlement is flat out dangerous to victims.
I've watched people in my social circle regularly join in with the sick culture of places like 4chan, and despite what they may say, it
changes them, in their day-to-day life and cognitions even when they aren't 'going along with the joke'. I refer particularly to sexism here, but it carries over just as easily, readily and frequently to racism. That the belief that women- or minorities- are not
absolutely equal still exists in [********] doesn't surprise me, but it does sicken me, and makes me think we're not being loud enough about calling it the ******** out.
The response differs between IRL and online, at least. Online, it seems more to the order of entitled supremicist neckbeard ranting with a parade of autofellating self-congratulatory confederates. If anyone needs an example, it can be found in the comments of this article.
http://www.cracked.com/article_19785_5-ways-modern-men-are-trained-to-hate-women.html
IRL, I've had one person attempt to intimidate me recently. Lovely tail-between-the-legs ******** right off back to the wankswamp he crawled out of when I didn't let him win.
emotion_eyebrow It's nice to know that the same sorts of people who act like this online are too gutless to carry on with the same gusto in person. *knucklecrack*
... The captcha is 'jerk store'.
lol I needed that, because typing all that out and remembering the s**t I've seen had pissed me off. Yes, he DID come from the jerk store...