What’s wrong with saying it’s about respect/courtesy?

if it is about respect, then you misgender people you don’t respect (as we see SJ do to any outside The In Clique) and then accurate pronouns are something you must earn by adherence to their ideology

It’s about winning the local battle (pronouns), since it’s easier than winning the war (trans is legit), and maybe if the local battle is won people will go easier.

But it does have that side effect.

I’m “thinks otherkin are ridiculous since that’s not a realistic variation on human brain designs, but supports their right to morphological freedom in the transhuman future”.

#or nb people #or mogai labels #or legitimate sj concepts

OH HEY this is right in my wheelhouse! I recommend:

• @theunitofcaring
• @fierceawakening
• @earlgraytay
• @raggedjackscarlet
• @roachpatrol
• @lizardywizard
• @chavisory
• @bambamramfan
• @normal-nermal
• @jumpingjacktrash
  

And myself, if you don’t mind sifting through the dross of complete shitposts and Maleficent fanart for the occasional gold of a real post.

omg thank <3

what really annoys me is when people to about the subreddit tumblrinaction and are like ‘i liked it when it was just making fun of otherkin,now it’s all about SJWs’

really? the ONLY bit you were ok with was making fun of the people pretty much trying to do their own thing and even if misguided weren’t harming anyone?

When it was a baby subreddit (i remember those times) it was way less mean-spirited and we were even fans of some otherkin bloggers (but also, I’m going to note that a lot of otherkin bloggers were super vile for no reason)

What’s the SJ value if I think Otherkin is ridiculous and undermining transgender people, but also support their morphological freedom in the awe-inspiring/terrifying Transhuman future?

what if elegant abstract general principles are insufficient to describe the full complexity of the world we inhabit

No Argumate, you stupid owl, it works in exactly the way most convenient for my ideology.

*Monitors resulting level of pro-owl extremism in order to test hypothesis.*

The irony that the opposite probably wouldn’t work on White Nationalists isn’t lost on me.

It does not work to call certain hard leftists, especially Antifa, cuckolds. It literally does nothing (I think I wrote about this before). Fatherhood is a social construct anyway, and if you think paternity tests matter, then you are a MRA. So on some level, it makes sense and cancels out.

Some people also don’t take bourgeois as an insult. Some people don’t mind being called plebes.

It’s almost an inverted shibboleth. Those their enemies would want to insult most with it are most likely to remain unfazed by a word.

That they don’t see anything wrong with being “a cuck” and don’t see fatherhood as real - by Alt Right standards, it’s the most damning indictment of all. I don’t think they call them cucks because the insult has the most teeth. Most people don’t even know what it means. I think they call them cucks because it expresses just how lowly they are (in Alt Right terms).

I’m not of a pure liberal mind myself. I can see the value in a man raising another man’s child, but I worry what it might do to the gene pool.

Progressive Christianity is a thing. It’s a thing that has existed for several centuries now, which is abundantly available in every city and most small towns in America. If a “religious-but-tolerant” Christianity were a viable option, you should be able to copy and spread the existing progressive churches to good effect. People can and do move from conservative churches to progressive churches if they find that their beliefs grow out of sync with the conservatives.

Of course, by now you’ve probably noticed that progressive Christianity is dramatically less successful than conservative Christianity. There’s probably a reason for that. You should find out what that reason is.

(And it’s not just Christianity. Reformed and Orthodox Judaism have approximately the same relationship. Progressive Islam is much younger than either of those, but I’d be shocked if it didn’t turn out the same way as the others.)

Honestly, from what I can see, the supernatural stuff is part of the glue that holds it all together, and one of the memeplex’s components about it being true to the exclusion of all other worldviews.  You can weaken it a little, but if you weaken it too much, it risks falling apart.

Of course, I don’t believe in the supernatural elements, and many of them I find absurd.  (More deeply, I find the entire concept of eternal damnation deeply unethical.  …though, there are those who believe it’s only salvation or nothing, which has far fewer issues.)

And in many ways, religious tolerance is based on the implicit possibility that one’s religion could be wrong.

For me though, in my interactions with religion, it seems like it’s trying to hack my brain in ways not so different from Social Justice or Communism, so I intuitively resist.  Anything that involves an internal shutdown of mental defenses looks like that to me.  (This actually pisses off SJ and Communists more than religionists, at least in this country.)  On the other hand, there are men out there, criminals, who found their way back into society through religious conversion, and others who staved off suicide, so you won’t see me posting negatively about Christianity in the West that much.