I am elevating this from megathread post to real post
I regret looking at X almost every time
This weird discourse has done actual psychic damage I think
Can someone make this make sense to me? Not uncritically adopting the weaponization of language traditionally, normally even, used to attack queer and neurodiverse people against less-lib American reactionaries by Democrats makes you a fed? It’s not a hill I would die but yeah
We are truly reaching levels of normality never seen before, regardless of how not weird and normal it is in many sections of society to be a turbo-reactionary
Have we entered a period where internet leftists and K-hivestandard internet left-libs become almost indistinguishable? I feel like I’m stuck in the event horizon of a terminally online singularity, spiraling toward a center of infinite onlineness
The most online people I have ever seen are telling other online people to log the fuck off, the 🥥🌴 usernames are joining with the 🍉🇵🇸 usernames in fed-jacketing people, the Democrat campaign is reposting dril tweets
We are cooked, the internet singularity consumes us all
Weirdn ormal weird werird normal couch weird weird normal
The rhetoric is actually calling right wing shit weird. This has the effect of labelling the things they are throwing fits over as normal (like being gay)
Ultimately its normalizing queerness 🤷
See my comment but this is more or less getting into the weeds and allowing the terms of this dialogue back into the hands of oppressors/fascists. Using a term used to oppress others towards the oppressors is liberation for the oppressed and praxis against the oppressor by way of renegotiating who is and isn’t in the “out group”. Being ugly in your example is subjective as beauty/attractiveness is variable depending on context/kinks/culture/society etc. Using a term that was done to out group marginalized individuals and instead bring them into the in group while out grouping the oppressors and their way of thinking is horrifying for fascists and reactionaries as their greatest goal is to create acceptance to oppress, marginalize and eventually exterminate out groups. This is why the far right became truly troubled by being called weird by a perceived average individual such as Walz (who looks like a stereotypical Midwestern father figure), as this is a signal to them that they are not allowed within the “normal consensus” of society.
Using a term used to oppress others towards the oppressors is liberation for the oppressed and praxis against the oppressor by way of renegotiating who is and isn’t in the “out group”
I think I disagree. Would a perceived average individual such as Walz calling Trump a f*g be liberating?
