Yeah, using a mental illness as a synonym fora bad person is not ableist at all.
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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Instead of:
I am a psychopath that wants to see queer people and PoC suffer for fun
Say:
I am an entrepreneur with right-wing views who sees a great opportunity in working with the Republican party
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 2 days ago
“Won’t someone think of the people that are destroying our society?”
Not all mental illnesses are high-functioning autism-style quirkiness, things that need help, many of which makes people more of victims of violence than the perpetrators of them. Sure, you can say that e.g. the Cybertruck bomber was abused by the MAGA cult, but that won’t change the facts. All this does is downplay the abuse these people can do if they’re at the wrong place.
We can call out the abuses of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, without taking away their mental health card. They were very close to two pedophile rings, and pedophilia is among the few paraphilias that psychology tries its best to correct due to the harm these people can cause to real children. They’re also narcissists, and likely also psychopaths.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Tgis is what gets called out, and not equating disabilities with illness?
You treat an illness. It’s something you try to eliminate. A disability isn’t something that has a cure, and often needs accomodations rather than treatment.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Or you can just say:
“I am a fucking cunt”
Psionicsickness@reddthat.com 2 days ago
You’re boring.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Can we have one fucking post without american politics getting shoehorned in
I get it’s important to you but perhaps keep it to topics or communities at least somewhat related
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 2 days ago
If the word ‘Republican’ were omitted, that comment could be applicable in most countries on the planet.
It’s kind of nitpicking anyway, don’t you think? Almost as nitpicky as pointing out when the country of the United States is referred to by the name of the continent it shares with other nations.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Probably, though I really don’t want politics being shoved into a literal shitposting community without any prompt in the op either way. I have my own political issues to worry about over here in Germany and have only so much mental capacity for gloomy copeposting now that trump was re elected.
There is also a wide range of communities available for political venting elsewhere, why does it have to be a non political post in a shitposting community? Where am I supposed to go if not here to avoid that stuff?
JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s understandable. I imagine a large section of the user base doesn’t navigate to a specific community to look through posts, and instead just skip through the main feed. I didn’t realise the community until you pointed it out.
While I agree with your sentiment that no one wants to be so bombarded with foreign politics, at the very least the joke that user made was in keeping with the theme of the meme.
Regarding your final question, depending on your method of consuming this content, you may be able to entirely block comments by setting a blacklist of words, perhaps including ‘Republican’ in this case. The same I know is true on most applications for post titles, but I’m just assuming here the same is applicable to comments.
Either way, best wishes with the situation in the fatherland, I do hope to visit some day.
B312@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Americans like to pretend the only country that matters is them
daggermoon@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why do people say this? I find European politics fascinating. I, as an American am very interested in what goes on globally.
B312@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I personally don’t care about the politics of other countries outside if the very basics.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Hear! Hear!
(from NZ)