Sure, because the persecution of black people in the US is at all equivalent to the bullying of anime nerds, right.
The problem is not that thin-skinned people could do mental gymnastics to find reasons to be upset, it’s that ‘coon’ is straight up a racial slur that was historically a major tool of oppression.
Tbf, it’s also still used to refer to actual raccoons and coonskin hats and such. It’s also is still to this day an actual surname, there could literally be a guy with that actual name (actually, googled it, looks like there’s a Resort in Maui, and the CEO of something called Savvy both actually have that name, albeit the resort with an s on the end). Monkey is also “straight up a racial slur that was historically a major tool of oppression” and also people still call others monkeys for just acting silly or haphazardly, and there’s of course the animal. Jig is another, it both can be used as a racial slur or to describe a little dance.
Point being, there are both racist and innocuous uses of all those words, and without knowing more about the author we don’t have sufficient information to conclude intent. Hell I don’t even know their country of origin, it’s possible they’re not American, ESL, etc, and have no idea the connotations of the word beyond “name pun.”
Bullying should never be ok, and rules should be valid and applicable for everyone.
Nobody should be a valid target for verbal abuse, not even anime nerds.
So if a rule against verbal harm and abuse are implemented (which I am not against at all) then such rule should be valid and used for all cases.
There is no equality if new inequality is created in the process.
I am drunk because I have the belief that everyone should be truly equal in front of the law and that rules about a thing/concept should be valid for all instances of that thing/concept?
If you think so then, ok I am drunk and go home.
Have a nice weekend!
We talk about personal opinions, there is not much that is more personal then personal opinions. And you are making ad hominem claims (my soberness) so yes it is about me.
But it is not me how brought it to the personal level, that was you with calling me drunk.
Before that it was completely abstract and impersonal.
It’s only about you because you made it about you.
“Ghoul” is not a slur. You saying that seeing an unpleasant word next to a word that reminds you of anime is at all equivalent to a slur is frankly ghastly of you.
You’d almost have a leg to stand on if they changed it to “Captain Weeaboo” or something, but even then the comparison is a stretch. You’re showing up at somebody’s funeral to say “I scraped my knee, that’s bad too! We’re all equal as humans, so I deserve to speak”.
Christ, what a stretch. It’s obviously a play on the tech Mogul definition.
Not a bigger stretch then with the Ty Coon, that was obviously a play on the Tycoon.
It was not me who started to read bad things into word play, but by that rules is Moe Ghoul offensive too.
How many anime characters have been lynched by mobs calling them “moe”
Not the kind of choking that mob would do
Sure, because the persecution of black people in the US is at all equivalent to the bullying of anime nerds, right.
The problem is not that thin-skinned people could do mental gymnastics to find reasons to be upset, it’s that ‘coon’ is straight up a racial slur that was historically a major tool of oppression.
Tbf, it’s also still used to refer to actual raccoons and coonskin hats and such. It’s also is still to this day an actual surname, there could literally be a guy with that actual name (actually, googled it, looks like there’s a Resort in Maui, and the CEO of something called Savvy both actually have that name, albeit the resort with an s on the end). Monkey is also “straight up a racial slur that was historically a major tool of oppression” and also people still call others monkeys for just acting silly or haphazardly, and there’s of course the animal. Jig is another, it both can be used as a racial slur or to describe a little dance.
Point being, there are both racist and innocuous uses of all those words, and without knowing more about the author we don’t have sufficient information to conclude intent. Hell I don’t even know their country of origin, it’s possible they’re not American, ESL, etc, and have no idea the connotations of the word beyond “name pun.”
Fair point, but I can’t blame them for playing it safe here.
Me neither.
Bullying should never be ok, and rules should be valid and applicable for everyone.
Nobody should be a valid target for verbal abuse, not even anime nerds.
So if a rule against verbal harm and abuse are implemented (which I am not against at all) then such rule should be valid and used for all cases. There is no equality if new inequality is created in the process.
Go home, you’re drunk.
I am drunk because I have the belief that everyone should be truly equal in front of the law and that rules about a thing/concept should be valid for all instances of that thing/concept? If you think so then, ok I am drunk and go home. Have a nice weekend!
You’re drunk for thinking this is about you.
We talk about personal opinions, there is not much that is more personal then personal opinions. And you are making ad hominem claims (my soberness) so yes it is about me.
But it is not me how brought it to the personal level, that was you with calling me drunk. Before that it was completely abstract and impersonal.
It’s only about you because you made it about you.
“Ghoul” is not a slur. You saying that seeing an unpleasant word next to a word that reminds you of anime is at all equivalent to a slur is frankly ghastly of you.
You’d almost have a leg to stand on if they changed it to “Captain Weeaboo” or something, but even then the comparison is a stretch. You’re showing up at somebody’s funeral to say “I scraped my knee, that’s bad too! We’re all equal as humans, so I deserve to speak”.
Grow up.