Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

  • Julian@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    You’re saying we should be blatantly discriminatory to prevent subtle discrimination? How does that make any sense? It’s like saying people with racist thought should just say them instead of shutting up. Or an better example: should we make fun of visibly disabled people? I’m sure plenty of people have “natural thoughts” when they see someone like that, but you shouldn’t say anything because that’d be a horrible thing to do.

    Again, most overweight people know they’re overweight. They are already affected by it in their daily lives. They don’t need you to be a dick about it.

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      1 year ago

      It circles back to that fat people have the autonomy to change their shortcomings.
      But the thought about blind people getting bullied into gaining vision your argumentation put in my head is pretty entertaining.

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        1 year ago

        So we should bully everyone about anything they have autonomy over? I should bully people for not filtering their water because it’s unhealthy? I should bully people for having a car because it’s bad for the environment?

        I mean it’s not discrimination but it’s definitely just a dick thing to do. You mentioned haircuts earlier - if someone gets a haircut they like you shouldn’t make fun of them for it. They chose to get the haircut. They know how it looks. They know what people think of that style of haircut. Chosing to laugh at them for that isn’t doing anything and is just rude.

        If you disagree with that I don’t think I have anything else to say. We just have completely different views.

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          1 year ago

          Well it’s you who basically comes back to repeat the same talking points over and over. And I was saying it’s ok to make fun of fat people that you kinda escalated into bullying. You’re strawmanning and all your arguments are just whataboutism. I should’ve shot that down earlier but you seem very polite.