#your fat jokes about 45 and your homophobic jokes about pete buttigieg

[anghraine]

It is very strange to me that there's this idea that open bigotry or otherwise abhorrent behavior becomes okay if the target is in some way acceptable.

Like ... bigotry towards or about people who are themselves awful, and/or powerful, and/or cringe, and/or older/younger, and/or public figures, and/or however you want to define them as acceptable targets, is still bigotry.

Your target may never hear what you say. But the people around you generally will. You're still adding to the bigotry that people witness and experience and which is just ... this miasma in the world.

I'm not saying there's no place for anger, confrontation, condemnation, harsh jokes, whatever—it's not that context never has any bearing on whether actions in general are right or wrong. But relying on bigotry to make your point is wrong without exception.

#normally i try to punctuate my posts with 'imo' or 'i think' or whatever #this is not one of those occasions #bigotry towards literally anyone is always!!! wrong!!! #yes even: #your fat jokes about 45 and your homophobic jokes about pete buttigieg #misogyny towards big name hollywood actresses and racism towards internet celebrities you find annoying #ableist jokes towards people whose medical histories you don't know but find kind of sketchy #i can go on! these are just examples of the manyyyyyy forms this takes #and it makes the world worse. thanks. #anghraine rants #rare breed of attack unicorn #but also just. everything. #discourse hell