internet pop psychology terms like "narcissist," "toxic," etc are a rly scary carceral identity based thinking - creates a "mental disorder" that just defines a person as "evil and always will be"
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Replying to @jdr____llc @arthur_affect
Did Trump or somebody pay you to write this tweet? Because this has the same kind of energy as those chuds that spew nonsense about cancer culture or that "TERF is a slur". There are just some bad people out there that can't change and never will, because they choose not to.
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Replying to @Zulnahdwiin @jdr____llc
If you believe the problem is indeed that they "choose not to" change then that's a reason to avoid medicalized terminology, especially because there are people who very much use it in this eugenic sense of identifying people diseased from birth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jdr____llc
I'm beginning to understand why the right thinks us lefties want to police all thought. All this pedantic nonsense and needless ethical agonizing is completely ridiculous on it's face. I see no advantage to pointing out how a word is used by worse people in a different context.
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Dude, Arthur is not “policing” anything, he’s having an opinion in public. It’s okay.
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People who really get heated up about "language policing" raise a lot of questions for me Like what, exactly, was so awesome about the word you were using that makes you so unwilling to give it up What is the function it's performing that you find so useful
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
Like the whole thing about the word "narcissist" is that, on the superficial level, it's *not* a term of abuse It's not like saying "asshole" or "motherfucker" or "piece of shit" or just "jerk" It has an air of clinical detachment to it, of objectivity
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
And that, honestly, is what is dangerous about it If you're trying to tell me not being allowed to call people "narcissists" is *softpedaling* attacks on them I think you're being disingenuous
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You're not mad that you're being "policed" from fully venting your anger at them, because "motherfucker" is an angrier word by far than "narcissist" You're mad that you're not being allowed to pretend you're *not* venting anger, that you're not mad, just stating facts
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Replying to @arthur_affect @viveka and
And that, I think, is worth talking about -- just like most people in the fat acceptance movement would honestly rather you just come out and say "Fucking fatty" than throw around terms like "morbid obesity"
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