@CobaltVelvet why smile when you can slime?

honestly teach psychology to children

aggressive idiots are everywhere, unbearable and clueless

@CobaltVelvet I mean, sure, but also, categorizing them with ableist language seems like the opposite of what you want here

@LogicalDash is that really ableist tho? do they actually understand how wrong they are? can they? are they just "evil" somehow? isn't that ableist now?

is saying they're assholes really meaning something different to you? to most people?

@CobaltVelvet no, it's just that their intelligence or lack-of isn't what motivates the behavior in question

It's that they honestly believe that feelings work that way, and maybe *need* to believe that, to keep from reflecting on something they've done

Teaching children psychology would mean teaching them what actually motivates harmful beliefs, yes?

@LogicalDash in the end it's a word about a group thinking differently. you're an idiot to someone, i'm an idiot to someone, and that hasn't ever characterized "intelligence" in a more absolute way that "that's not my way of thinking and it works worse relative to me".

i'm not saying their brains are too small to be nice to me, it's a wrong assumption.

i'm saying they're idiots because they think differently in a way that harms me

@CobaltVelvet I believe you when you say that's what it means to you, but I think that's an idiosyncratic use of the word

@LogicalDash it's really sad that most of cool-sounding insults we inherited are actually so shitty

@CobaltVelvet agreed

"bigot" really *sounds* like an insult to me, but it doesn't sting much...as if we as a society don't believe that being a bigot is that bad

@LogicalDash feels too elaborated too, i'd use "bigot" in a less angry debate, like to characterize a politician

for /that guy/ it was a more "primitive" feeling somehow. it's not even the ideas that i hate the most, it's the mere fact that he went through with it and with impressive dedication.

@CobaltVelvet I've noticed people broadening the meaning of "mansplain" to refer to stuff like this, probably because of how much it makes the men in question rage

@LogicalDash yeah i agree on the shared "base idea" between the two

@LogicalDash i think it even really boils down to *over-confidence*. thoughts or ignorance themselfes aren't much of an issue.

privilege, people being used to assuming they're righteous and that it won't have any direct consequence, is really the problem.

why did i snap out of it and got decent and not him? ifucking dont know but i'd love to understand that

yknow i thought about it again and i should fix it, i can do better

he's a fucken self-centered abusive piece of shit

@CobaltVelvet The last time some ignorant asshole told me to smile when I wasn't in a smily mood, I gave 'em one worthy of a serial killer, combined it with a Kubrick Stare over the tops of my glasses, and wished all the while that the sword of my wrath wasn't just a metaphor I used to keep my anger in check and avoid hurting innocent people.