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Breaking news: tumblr is stupid. It’s obviously talking about murder. Half the comments (notes? Retweets?) don’t get why this is a bad thing and aren’t even holding the fig leaf. Fuck these guys.
That’s still no excuse to make your own scare quotes. Congratulations, you’ve drawn them as a dumb, baby-talking soyjak. Everyone point and boo at the outgroup.
I don't care about soyjack. But this is why no, it's not because conservatives are evil fascist Nazis, it's because you guys are idiots and the way you phrase things is idiotic and you destroy what could be good campaigns because you cannot resist being idiots. Did diddums get a lil' frisson of the transgressive writing that about killing an oil exec? Did they feel all tingly and righteous?
Fucking moron.
I'm highly exercised over this because it makes trying to steelman liberal to leftist arguments so damn impossible. This could have been a really good example of things! The idea that this much space is taken up by the actions of oil companies, by comparison by what is being asked of you, the ordinary person, is really incisive! But of course, just being accurate and educational wasn't good enough, they had to signal how tough black-clad street cyberpunk revolutionary warrior they were.
I want a good conversation about this. I want the environmental movement to provide good information and come up with solutions. I want people on the left not to beclown their own side.
And that is why I'm pissed-off about this whole "uh uh we only said 'killing' why are you all hung up on that?" when if they had a spare brain cell they could have made the same point just with "one fewer oil exec" and leave it to the imagination about how you get one fewer (if you want to imagine they give up the job and retire to the countryside to grow heirloom tomatoes, go you; if you want to imagine Mounds of Skulls keep it in your own head, tiger).
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