There’s a clear campaign against the mentally ill with the global rise of fascism. Lots of it shows up in anti homeless rhetoric, but you can see it in the MAHA and anti vaccination movements.

There’s no reason to use the word “r-tarded” to describe someone. As someone who’s worked with the intellectually challenged, it’s an insult to them to compare them with people who are willfully ignorant.

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    Dark places aren’t inherently more dangerous. Light, bright areas aren’t inherently positive.

    These are the subliminal ideas that were put into your head by literature, religion, popular culture, etc (that was often seeped in racism).

    Just like numbers aren’t inherently good or bad, but certain numbers rise associations with “good” or “bad” 3, 7, 13, 666, 777, Etc.

    “Nature itself” argument is completely BS, as many animals hunt and spring to life at night, while daytime and light means danger to them.

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      Dark cave vs open meadow.

      Clear skies vs stormy clouds.

      Clear still water vs murky turbulent water.

      Death and decay vs life.

      But nah, I’m just making up literary themes that have existed for centuries. For fucks sake, the vast majority of horror movies rely on darkness.

      The fucking yin yang is literally the fusion of light and darkness, good and evil.

      You’re just being intentionally obtuse or you’re really that dumb that you don’t get any of these themes.

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        Dark cave vs open meadow.

        When you’re a rodent?

        Clear skies vs stormy clouds.

        When you’re stranded in the desert?

        Clear still water vs murky turbulent water.

        When you’re a fish?

        Death and decay vs life.

        How does that have anything to do with black/white?

        But nah, I’m just making up literary themes that have existed for centuries. For fucks sake, the vast majority of horror movies rely on darkness.

        The fucking yin yang is literally the fusion of light and darkness, good and evil.

        You’re trying to disprove that it a subliminal bias induced by other people who lived a while ago by… giving me examples of it?

        You’re just being intentionally obtuse or you’re really that dumb that you don’t get any of these themes.

        Oh the irony…

        Additionally:

        Pink is not “feminine”
        Blue is not “masculine”

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          Since we’ve drifted so far from the point, let me bring us back.

          You are an imbecile. A low intelligent, dimwitted individual. Someone who lacks understanding of subtext or really any basic reading comprehension. You are an overall drain on society. A moron. A few fries short of a happy meal. Your elevator doesn’t go to the top floor. Lights are on, no one’s home.

          Now, you see how I was able to easily insult your lack of intelligence without once calling you retarded? So pray tell me, how would removing that word have changed this interaction at all? I’d still be calling you shit for brains without using the dreaded “R-word”. Do you maybe see now how it’s not the language, but the emotions of the person uttering them that matters? That you need to change my emotional state, not just restrict my use of words. Because as I’ve clearly pointed out, I can still call you a fucktard without using “retarded”.

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            I haven’t drifted from the point at all. You were confused why blacklist/whitelist were changed to blocklist/allowlist.

            It seems it went over your head.

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              I wasn’t confused. I’m the one who stated and clarified it happened. So yes, you do need reading comprehension, retard.

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                You replied to my my black/white comment that wasn’t even a reply to you, with your astrology-or-whatever-based “black is spooky = bad :(” nonsense, you knobhead.

                Jesus, some explain to this dickhead how a threaded conversation works lmao.