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No, they are not.
if you mention anything that goes against their world view they bring out the bullhorns and go full NPC attack mode
Misused labels are counterproductive.
Shorthands and categories are one of the most fundamental ways to communicate.
they misuse all labels
hell they don't even know what man and woman is anymore
And the better we communicate, the better we can solve an issue.
I think that the precision of a solution is predicated on the precision to which the problem has been articulated.
if you guys didn't get it the number 5 is the numerical value for the roman numeral V.
true, but the magic of labels is to be reductive by nature
maybe we need better labels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You probably have a good basis to criticize categories. If they are overextended, they cease to be useful, just as analogies taken too far lose their use.
Part of the problem, I think (could be wrong) is that gov't can't look at individuals...they have to look at groups and make policy based on that - yes, there ARE exceptions, but the policy should be for the majority.
"WHY DON'T YOU JUST USE LABELS PEOPLE WANT LIKE A DECENT HUMAN FUCKING BEING YOU COMPLETE PILE OF DOG SHIT" <:NPC:500042527231967262>
*1 million twitter upvotes*
i identify as the state of oregon <:NPC:500042527231967262>
Take, for instance, the craziness about the gender thing.... Truly, it affects less than 3% of the population. It's not something that gov't should even be involved with.
I IDENTIFY AS A MOTHER FUCKING ORANGUTAN
But people nowadays are too quick to dismiss useful categories. One of the arguments why gender is supposed to be fluent or a social construct is because there are grey zones or transitions between them. But so there are transitions between red and blue.
Red and blue are categories. They categorize a section of the visible spectrum of light into a category that makes it easy to communicate. Everybody knows what you mean when you say "red" or "blue".
Yet, there are transitions and gradients between red and blue. There is purple, for example.
Does that therefor mean that red and blue do not exist?
Does it mean that the categories red and blue are useless?
USE MY "OOH OOH" PRONOUNS YOU BIGGET <:NPC:500042527231967262>
Hey
I am surprised Ian Miles Cheong has been on Twitter as long as he has been.
Look at this fucking idiot
Who’s that?
I wanna know
Elfwick had been banned way before him, and he had always been more careful about his satire than Ian even.
white people
amirite
"lass and not a cuck"
Eh, that's silly. You already paid for it. It's good ice cream. Eat it.
tbh that guy is probably a troll
did he just describe a male? but the title is female
I can appreciate the gesture, though.
let's buy some more ice cream so we can throw it out
this will fucking show them
^
That's actually how some boycotts are run nowadays.
you might as well eat it