#culminating in the ''you. are. vlad.'' ''this sounds suspisciously aphobic or possibly terfy'' post everyone likes to laugh at

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like idk i generally disagree with the whole "go outside touch grass" response but boy howdy

#i think used as a simple dismissal for Anyone Daring To Give A Shit About Things is shitty obvi but #there also are a lot of ppl on here whose perspective in arguments is so heavily skewed by their time spent buried deep in discourse #that they would seriously benefit from time offline bc their priorities are heavily divorced from the reality of whats actually #yknow. causing problems in the world #and i know that bc thats how i spent yknow. Most Of Highschool was buried deep in discourse #and there were so many things that i felt like were the most important things to focus on because of the harm they were doing when #looking back they had literally No Impact on the real world #and in the context of "(xyz) is a (niche discourse group) dogwhistle‚ like i said before‚ theres pretty much only gonna be two types #of people using those things #a) completely innocent randos who arent even aware of what the things youre accusing them of being off of one phrase /mean/ #and b) people who You Should Be Able To Tell Where They Stand based on all the other things they say #i hate talking abt it but a well known example was the '' 'you. are. valid.' is a dogwhistle'' discourse that arose during ace discourse #culminating in the ''you. are. vlad.'' ''this sounds suspisciously aphobic or possibly terfy'' post everyone likes to laugh at #a situation created by someone learning a thing could be dogwhistle when used in certain contexts turning around and accusing Anyone who #used it of doing it on purpose which in turn made everyone else go 'yo this is fucking stupid lmao' #because yeah! it kinda was! because the theory of dogwhistles just doesnt really work as well when applied to minor #topics like this! which is where the whole ''do more research before throwing a fit when you suspect someone is using one #'' thing comes in #and i just dont think its productive to try to label any niche discourse thing as Always A Dogwhistle Stay Away From All Who Use It #because put into perspective like. 99% of the time people are gonna be using it innocuously #also i just fundamentally disagree with the idea of ''if a bad group of people use a thing a lot that means that thing must be #associated with them'' #is that often a first step? sure‚ but its nowhere near enough on its own