Worst of Social Justice

[Damen]

I know what to do...

...call a psychiatrist.

[TheUnknown]

I think the stupidest thing about this post is that this person doesn't know that foxes are just as cliche.

[TheL]

Oh yeah?  Well, I'm a tenrec-kin!

[Sigmaleph]

It's a rhetorical device, UP. People not using exact legal terminology is not the worst thing about social justice.

It's still factually wrong.  California's the only state to specifically ban the trans panic defense, but there are many states where using provocation as a defense isn't allowed.  And that includes the trans panic defense.

Good to know, if true. Source?

[Ultimate Paragon]

It's a rhetorical device, UP. People not using exact legal terminology is not the worst thing about social justice.

It's still factually wrong.  California's the only state to specifically ban the trans panic defense, but there are many states where using provocation as a defense isn't allowed.  And that includes the trans panic defense.

Good to know, if true. Source?

This is a little embarrassing.  I had a source, but now I can't find it.

[I am lizard]

Is part of being an otherkin not typing in English?

[guizonde]

Considering the amount of difficulty they have grasping the idea that the vacuum of space is not a gender, or that 'heteroflexible' is just another way of saying 'I totes give brojobs but I'm not gay', I would figure that the simplest concepts of the English language such as punctuation, capitalization, and syntax escape them.

But maybe I'm just ableist scum for actually knowing what words mean and how things are spelled.

just to be clear. that does not escape me. however, it is a visual signature. (and it niggles people, so i'll keep doing it).

re: that idiot, truly, "otherkins" are nothing more than a fantasy fad. either that, or i'm a 1958 gibson flying v-kin.

[Even Then]

To be fair, I don't see that line being crossed in tumblr user yipyapfox's little lament. In general, the idea of "person X is talking about their experiences more times than I find acceptable/in a way I, who am not person X, don't find acceptable, therefore they're making THEIR ENTIRE LIVES about it and they need mental help, I, the person who am not person X, know this because I'm a certified Internet mind reader"* quite aggravating tbh. It's "if you talk about your mental illness without hating yourself, you're romanticizing mental illness" all over again.

(not necessarily trying to put that in your mouth, it's the general attitude that your post reminded me of)

[guizonde]

re: the studies. best guess? this. or this. possibly this, but i can't really speak about it, since for me it deluded me into thinking i was precognitive, rather than a furball.

[dpareja]

I recall reading a column by a billionaire warning his ilk the French Revolution would come again if they did not stop their more aggrandizing behavior. And I guess we just saw the first blows of that.

I know the conversation's moved on, but I think I found the article:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014

Is that it?

[niam2023]

Yeah, that's it.

To be perfectly honest, I would have exactly no problems with the plutocrats getting the axe.

Or, to be accurate to reference, the guillotine.

[Ultimate Paragon]

Yeah, that's it.

To be perfectly honest, I would have exactly no problems with the plutocrats getting the axe.

Or, to be accurate to reference, the guillotine.

Well, you ought to be careful you don't end up on the wrong end of the blade.

[Sigmaleph]

Is part of being an otherkin not typing in English?

That's tumblr dialect. Using a particular style of capitalization/punctuation/etc to convey tone.

(you have no idea how many posts on tumblr linguistics cross my dash)

[Askold]

I just realized that if all these Tumblr "kintypes" and snowflake genders would have stuck to something like the "Fursonas" that the furries have they would be much less annoying. I mean, what they really want is something that makes them feel special but if they were using the clearly fictional fursonas (or anything like that) rather than trying to pretend that they have their own speshul genders or mental illness it would at least be less annoying and probably much healthier for them...

[Ultimate Paragon]

Okay, I think I see the problem here.  It's a language barrier.  When you say "I hate white people," I take that to mean that you hate white people.  But that was my bad for not translating Standard American English into Tumblrspeak, which would produce something like, "I'm a 2edgy4u teenager with no problems and I just like to complain."