Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 12 May 2024 - eviltoast

Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post, thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • slopjockey@awful.systems
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    So what exactly happens to people who get really into Scott et al. and then realize that theyā€™re racist? I mean people like OP who genuinely seemed shocked by how buddy buddy their ā€œunorthodoxā€ intellectuals are with blatant racists.

    Do they slowly disengage from rationalist-spheres, or do they just become cryptoracists like all the other idw types?

    • Soyweiser@awful.systems
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      6 months ago

      They start reading sneerclub and then see that the stereotypes about hwo horrible the place is are not true. Then they post, then they are lost.

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      6 months ago

      Also what the fuck?

      In your mind, is a racist who ā€œpossesses strong animus towards non-whitesā€ a special category of person with which we should not engage in any kind of discussion? Or if we should not be casual towards them, how should we act? Why?

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        6 months ago

        is this trying to say ā€œdiscrimination against racists is the real racismā€? ā€¦ Would that be ā€œracismismā€?

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          ā€œshould we really treat violent racists any differently from how we would casually treat a neighbour? what is it really you expect me to do do? why are you so ridiculous?ā€

          just some casual afternoon reframing of violent racism and dehumanising anyone that isnā€™t like themselves, no biggie