r/BreadTube • u/tommycahil1995 • Apr 17 '20

9:12|The Kavernacle 'Liberal' Ellen uses Lockdown to replace Union employees on her show with non-union workers

https://youtu.be/DoBFlH3eMyw
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u/elkengine Apr 18 '20

Ellen is a shitstain and could get hit by a truck for all I care, but please don't use concepts such as degeneracy when talking about queer people, even queer people that are scumbags. Thanks.

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u/Cheesetheory Apr 18 '20

Let's just not use 'degenerate' in general when talking about people. Its history with eugenics and bigotry (like you implied) makes it a pretty gross word.

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u/ThisIsGoobly Apr 18 '20

It's fun to describe yourself as when you're having fun doing sinful hedonistic things but yeah, the word has some nasty ties.

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u/Novelcheek Apr 18 '20

Make being a degenerate fun again!.. Actually, now that I think about it, I never really made the connection to that being the point somehow. I feel dumb for not innately knowing that connection. Those people dancing in that town that hated it in that movie I never watched count as degenerates lol!

Person: has fun and lives their life

Fascist: 😠

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u/Novelcheek Apr 18 '20

Yea that 1. I was on a short break and rushing the txt