WHY AM I EVEN AWARE OF ONE OF YOUR (NOT EVEN) MAYORS?? WAS RATBOY NOT ENOUGH??

  • revolut1917 [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    15 days ago

    https://hexbear.net/comment/6389886 this thread specifically is where I was called an ultra and also told to join the ACP for criticising Mamdani

    This is… Needlessly rude and divisive? Highly uncomradely?

    if you can’t even be intransigiently argumentative on the offshoot forum for the chapotraphouse subreddit these days then the internet really is a waste of time

    • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      15 days ago

      I just think “you people” and “these people” have something to them that are… I don’t know. I find them really nasty phrases personally but can’t really describe why. Someone might know what I mean though.

      • Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        15 days ago

        It’s a very othering way to talk about people, talking about “those people” as if they were A) a monolith and B) different from “our people” and by implication are bad or negative in some way.

        I would give revolut the benefit of the doubt at this point, I don’t think they were trying to imply horrible things about people, probably just a poor choice of words.