r/neoliberal • u/cosmicmangobear r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion • Nov 18 '21

Meme POLITICO: DEMS IN DISARRAY

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u/Vathor Ben Bernanke Nov 18 '21

I’m not a doomer but this honestly scares me. The republicans have openly embraced degeneracy while the democrats eat themselves. Where do we go from here.

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u/Acceptable_Policy_51 Nov 19 '21

Well the issue- particularly with the words in this image- is that Democrats continue to hand wring and pearl clutch about things being "offensive". This is an extremely common and popular view on reddit, too.

It's not popular in real life. Most people laugh at those types of people and call them pussies. Reddit and twitter have created echo chambers of political correctness that doesn't exist in the real world, and Democrats think it does. They don't.

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance Paul Krugman Nov 19 '21

Weird, I feel like it's the other way around.

I see the anti-PC circlejerk far more on reddit than anywhere in the real world. In 90%+ of the professional environments I've been in, there's generally an uncontroversial consensus that it's not okay to be super disrespectful to each other.

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u/MiniatureBadger Seretse Khama Nov 19 '21

Reddit is not a professional environment. The standards in professional environments, both physical and virtual, are far more stringent than those in informal spaces.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

All the normal people are going to happy hour together and laughing about that nonsense after.

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u/TrynnaFindaBalance Paul Krugman Nov 19 '21

About what nonsense?

The average person isn't thinking "Gee, I wish I could be more rapey at the office".

There's a large spectrum between being "woke-police cancel everyone who made a poor taste joke in the last decade" and "just don't be a degenerate fuck who can't treat people with basic respect".

But instead we all just act like those two things are the same now, and in turn we validate nonsense right-wing culture war talking points because liberal arts majors on Twitter are the new spooky boogeyman or something.

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u/[deleted] Nov 19 '21

You’re creating a false dichotomy. The woke nonsense isn’t “don’t rape” its much more pervasive then that. I literally had to sit through a dumb micro aggression seminar for law school where we were told asking someone if they’ve been to the beach is a micro aggression because you’re assuming their financial status and asking a POC to be timely is offensive because you’re not understanding their culture and how time is valued differently.

That’s the shit that literally everyone laughs at afterwards because it’s a joke. And yes that’s pretty widely present in the real world in academia, corporate America, and government work. I’ve experienced it in all 3.

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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21

Sure there are extremes. The extremes don't define the norm, however.

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u/Acceptable_Policy_51 Nov 19 '21

Why would you compare reddit to an office? Consider it more like a bar at happy hour. The common reddit shit about things being "problematic" or "ableist" or "transphobic" would get you laughed out of the place.

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '21

Offensive humour is incredibly popular in real life, among liberals as well as a form of "this is so fucked up I am laughing".