#bigotry memes

[thefrogginbullfish]

[rjalker]

sigh.

[ID: A meme of someone astral projecting, labeled, "The leftism leaving people's bodies the moment they're asked not to use brain damage as an insult". End ID.]

[zabreus]

threatening FBI intervention over a tom and jerry-esque “we would have beat ET with hammers” type joke post is the kind of thing a grown adult only does either if they’re being deliberately hyperbolic to save a bruised ego or if they’re so genuinely terrified of a minority that their frontal lobe shuts down completely

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[describe-things]

new meme format.

[ID: A chart labeled, "Fragility scale", with three colums down the side. The first is labeled "Fragile" in yellow, and reads, "Glass". Next is "Very Fragile" in orange, for "The tail of a Batavian tear". Last is "The most fragile thing in the world" in red, for "Fandom when you criticize racism, misogyny, ableism, and other bigotry in media.". End ID.]

Download the HD template from the internet archive here. The image description should be copied and pasted whenever you use the meme, just edit whichever parts you're changing. No credit is necessary as long as you make your post accessible.

[bonefall]

Question about Tiger- what WAS his end goal? We know that he wanted to be TC leader but he really quickly pivoted to "world forest domination" after that failed, which is one of those things that feels like thistle's law would oppose. Also why did he start going after half clan cats while also preaching for the clans uniting under him and him alone one leader? Other than kitty racism of course.

(Gently) If you think that Thistle Law would oppose total forest takeover, then I really recommend you head over to the masterpost on Thistle Law as a concept. Nothing about Thistle Law is isolationist, never has been

The ideology sets itself apart from Hard Traditionalism because it becomes willing to enforce some standard of xenophobic purity. That's what Tigerstar wanted to do. There is no "other than kitty racism." That's it. Stonefur, Mistyfoot, Stormpaw, and Featherpaw's lives are the result of codebreaking and that makes them lesser than other cats.

There is no logical reason for bigotry. It's not a principle. It doesn't make sense. It's reactionary discomfort and cruelty given form.

Tigerstar wanted to decide who was pure enough to live and who was filthy enough to die. These categories are arbitrary.

(Under the cut TW: speaking frankly about miscegenation, segregation, and genocide.)

"But if they all united under one Clan, then they'd just start mixing in the end, wouldn't they?"

No. They wouldn't. The steps go like this;

The groups live together and mingle too closely. To prevent them from interbreeding, the code is emphasized.

Someone breaks the code. They are punished.

The kits are dealt with; either eliminated or considered lesser.

But every birth of mixed children poses an "existential" threat. "Purity" is a concept that has to be protected, if a Pure parent mixes with the wrong parent, ALL of the resulting children are dirty. It is a threat to the concept of purity.

And this continues to happen, and "purity" must be protected, so... the groups need to be kept separate.

There is no such thing as "separate but equal." One group is an underclass, prevented from moving freely. This would have been RiverClan.

But the groups continue to mingle, people won't stay put in a ghetto. More extreme measures are taken. Sterilization, kidnapping, execution...

But that still doesn't work. There's only one solution; Genocide.

The logical conclusion of this ideology is genocide. That's where it ends. It doesn't matter if the fascist believes this at the stage he's at or not; that is the built-in conclusion.

Fascism is a death cult.

Tigerstar's goal was to take over the forest and arbitrarily decide which cats would be "True" cats of TigerClan. He would have weeded out cats seemingly at random, but heavily favored ShadowClan. Eventually, the Clans would shift into various classes, before each one is systemically eliminated.

IF he went unopposed. Fascism is unstable. Hyperemotional, self-obsessed, frothing egotists are REALLY bad at organizing government and its very structure is prone to infighting.

The enemy is everywhere, both strong and weak. You live in a constant state of paranoia. You waste all your money on ridiculous vanity weapon projects and overestimate your abilities to absurdity. You kill off all the intellectuals because you're too fragile to be told no. The biggest liar in history is the person who equated any kind of fascism with "evil genius," spite is blinding and insecurity makes you do stupid things.

Turns out, that's really bad for holding onto power. These regimes crumble like a shitty jenga tower eventually; problem is, they're deadly before that point and drag down thousands of innocent people on the way down.

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom I'm continuously dismayed by the fact that local governments in your era are more concerned with hatefully preventing homeless people from lying on a bench than providing good benches for disabled/chronically ill folks or even abled folks who are tired. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 11:30 AM · Nov 9, 2023

[problemothic]

me (the evil npd alter) when i start fronting and my face changes to become sadistic and evil:

[waylaid-by-enemies]

“Though, I may have a word with the chief…”

How did the player base not fall in love with Wyll when they first heard the iconic line?

[samaspic31]

I respect their gender identity i just think they have shitty morals and complacent in being tools of imperialism-

[swashbucklerred]

dont get me wrong i know south park obviously has its problems. i know it is genuinely at fault for spreading bigoted jokes to a new generation of edge teenagers every 13 or so years. but sometimes i feel like you guys put too much scope on an american cartoon from the 90s

[rjalker]

Really fucking annoying how people will have leftist politics up until it comes time to not being ableist and not using disabilities as insults.

[ball-of-catgirl]

>watching le funny video essay about games

>guy unironically uses "tr*p" to refer to astolfo

[nezumasa]

Every time we get into a discussion about anti-censorship it somehow always wraps around to “oh so I can’t be racist/ableist/bigoted now?”

Like you can think the Pooh meme is Fine (no one can control your thoughts) but assuming other people are “snowflakes” because they’ve experienced harassment for their own features is like…classic reddit.

[alienscumbag]

How to explain to ppl that jokes are the foundations to a lot of bigotry... Like you let ppl you don't know start laughing at jokes poking fun at groups they aren't in and that's where they start to get comfortable with being bigoted and then using "it was just a joke" as a defense

[spacedocmom]

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Fatphobia, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, ableism, classism, and racism are all like pus in a festering wound. Your health care systems will continue to suffer until all of that poisonous garbage is cleaned out. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked 2:41 PM · Jan 18, 2024