I probably shouldn’t be making this post. I hate getting involved struggle session highschool drama shit and I won’t even point to specific evidence because frankly this shit depresses me. But here goes:
This might be a “wtf are you ranting about, Owl?” moment but there are some serious reactionary vibes in this place sometimes. Maybe it’s a holdover from the dirtbag leftist era, I don’t know, but it’s gross. I see it trying to worm its way in here and it’s a bad sign
If you ever catch yourself using the kind of shitty othering and ableism you’d see on stupidpol or a 2016 cringe compilation, go do some self crit or fuck right off
Yes, I get how it fits, but it’s so positively connotated and the opposite so negatively, that I would still hesitate to use it for me or somebody else. I guess, “poorly-adjusted” could be reclaimed in a positive way maybe. Like many other words. I mean being well-adjusted to a capitalist society is kind of suspicious anyway. Chomsky is well adjusted, Parenti wasn’t (in a way, since he struggled to find employment).
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