I get he's an asshole, but he did work for it.
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Heterosexual Pride Day Is Stupid and Everyone Is Dragging It
- Thread starter Crossing Eden
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I get he's an asshole, but he did work for it.
There's a women history month?
e: fuck there IS!
I knew about the woman's right day because of course but this one I'm glad exists.
For dumb people like me : it's March.
Frozenprince
Banned
I mean that's really it. Trolling is simply attempting to shame people for having empathy and engaging people who they perceive to have shitty views but, really are just "doing it for a laugh" (though really the difference between the two is negligible at best).
And I like to think we haven't demonized empathy so much that we've made it laughable.
I'm not talking about that. This is about the fact that this would not be trending if it wasn't for the outrage. Thats. The. Whole. Point.
Joe Condor
Banned
OR A WHITE MISS UNIVERSE?!
Frozenprince
Banned
The #Niggernavy trended for a hot minute.
It's trending because it's being mocked. I'm looking at twitter (something I don't do) right now and all the top trending tweets about this are fucking jokes at it's expense.
Edit: And some idiots on the "Other side" who are actually taking the joke seriously too.
Earthbound64
Banned
"Everyone is dragging it"?
I expected something different...
I expected something different...
You do realise people who do this stuff tend to get bot accounts to rapidly post hashtags so they'll get traction quickly and rise to prominence. I highly doubt that the outrage is what made the hashtag popular in the first place.
NiggerNavy trended because Black Twitter got jokes off bout that shit
Things trend sometimes when folks pop jokes off
Godzilla's Left Toe
Member
The Right are bunch of Cunts and they need to get over themselves.
especially if Hoteping is going down
Frozenprince
Banned
Black Twitter is really the only redeemable bit of twitter
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's less "outrage" and more people making fun of the concept coupled with the intense stupidity that is people genuinely thinking it should be a thing.
No lies detected
adamsappel
Member
I do need people to realize the difference between black twitter and black people ON twitter
Two different things
I think actual funny trolling exists.
It's when someone manages to get people riled up over silly things, like what the best Transformers series is or whether Marvel or DC are better. The key is that the troll is not mocking empathy so much as obsession.
Good trolling is annoying but you can laugh over it later.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Even if this hashtag was made just to "troll" people it doesn't negate the fact that there are people who legitimately believe in a "heterosexual pride month/day". Let them know they're stupid as fuck for believing it should exist.
TheLostBigBoss
Banned
I remember reading how Notch is miserable and extremely lonely.
I can't imagine why
I can't imagine why
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I agree, in that it comes down to the importance of the subject at hand.
Trolling people over equal rights? pretty shitty
Trolling people over Persona backstory? Probably okay.
Making a joke of someone's level of obsession makes sense when that obsession is focused on something relatively lightweight (gaming, film, $30 italian meals, etc.) - I can see it, sure.
Making a joke out of someone's inherent belief in someone's right to just fuckin' live? Doesn't play.
And again, in most of those instances, the point of the joke is to teach the trolled a "lesson" about the dangers of being caught giving a shit in public, which is apparently one of the biggest crimes against the internet you could ever commit.
Yeah there's quite a few people I've met that think that way. It's the same camp that shouts "all lives matter" and doesn't believe discrimination exists.
Basketball
Member
I myself like the national pizza month
TumblingHippo
Member
If people truly want a Heterosexual Pride Day then they better also get all the fears of rejection, pain, discrimination, and death for being who they are.
Pride is about celebrating the right to exist not to celebrate equality, because we sure aren't at the equality stage yet.
Pride is about celebrating the right to exist not to celebrate equality, because we sure aren't at the equality stage yet.