There are plenty of people who are interested in socialism, but if they show up to a socialist org and get called a cracker they’ll leave
I don’t think that’s a real scenario that’s worth worrying about. Where are these socialist orgs that these people are going to show up at and be called crackers right away? Its silly. That’s why I’m making light of it, because this is just an unserious concern
Allowing casual race-based insults is bad, even if they’re directed at white people. We know this is bad because no significant in-person org allows it. Allowing it here is the definition of extremely online behavior.
People aren’t getting called cracker in real life, not because its such a terrible insult, but because that has just never been a thing that happens, because white people are not oppressed in any kind of racialized way. I think its an extremely silly thing to be concerned about.
I’m not sure the trolley problem nor Russel’s Teapot are legitimate either; I think the value is in the very clear and specificity of the thought experiment.
(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out…)
(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out…)
No, but they can very rapidly fall into idealist question-begging, though it is worth noting that the prompt you are giving this comparison to is not clear enough to be a useful thought experiment even by liberal standards. It is just a hazy hypothetical.
I whined about cracker being a slur and those mean ol Hexbears just called me a cracker more instead of debating me
i dont think its a slur, but he’s kinda right.
I don’t think that’s a real scenario that’s worth worrying about. Where are these socialist orgs that these people are going to show up at and be called crackers right away? Its silly. That’s why I’m making light of it, because this is just an unserious concern
There are some pretty weird Maoist groups out there…
And those Maoist groups (not all Maoist groups, those specifically) are welcome to implode
that’s absolutely true, but im pretty sure the commenter was talking about the site
Let’s be real, we do no organising here. And that’s fine, this place is mostly a place to unwind and feel sane in a world of darkest reaction.
It doesn’t happen in real life because in person everyone understands that you don’t insult people you’re trying to work with.
“I can’t imagine people saying this face-to-face” is a sign that we should ask why we’re saying it at all.
It’s not that i can’t imagine it. Its that it just doesn’t doesn’t happen. Its a made up concern
I don’t understand what you’re actually concerned about
Allowing casual race-based insults is bad, even if they’re directed at white people. We know this is bad because no significant in-person org allows it. Allowing it here is the definition of extremely online behavior.
People aren’t getting called cracker in real life, not because its such a terrible insult, but because that has just never been a thing that happens, because white people are not oppressed in any kind of racialized way. I think its an extremely silly thing to be concerned about.
I’m not sure the trolley problem nor Russel’s Teapot are legitimate either; I think the value is in the very clear and specificity of the thought experiment.
(unless thought experiments are bourgeois decadence, if so I will show myself out…)
No, but they can very rapidly fall into idealist question-begging, though it is worth noting that the prompt you are giving this comparison to is not clear enough to be a useful thought experiment even by liberal standards. It is just a hazy hypothetical.
i think i really hurt myself in confusion in this thread; i can barely piece together what i was saying or what i meant.
i’ll leave the utopian/idealist thought experiments à la roko’s basilisk & what’s really real to the folks on effectivr altrusim forums…
I got some bad news for you there lol
oh gosh oh crud;