I'm not taking anything "too negatively". I'm defining repetitive use of sarcasm as a type of bullying. I'm also asserting, like you, that the cause behind such is to take the underlying topic less seriously (at least one potential reason). That it is a release of nervous energy, compounded hatred or motivated as a strategic ploy regularly is exactly my point. I don't particularly care about the Xtian, Xmas, repulitards, orange idiots, labels in general because I don't take shit personal and I always take a value of the source. I'm simply pointing out that the underlying premises that either it's less important, that the other side is stupid, or that group X is laughable underpin serious biases that are detrimental to either side actually making social progress.
For instance I'd get probably more than a speed bump for constantly using A-sshole-theists in my signature and every time I spoke with them, or starting threads on the premise that I'm an atheist with ridiculous claims and arguments. I choose not because I don't find it funny or productive. It's not because I'm better than that or because I shouldn't based on the rules, but because I value my credibility and https://giphy.com/gifs/ubAZ725YVag36 is only funny the first time for me.
Listen I get it, you guys like laughing at theists, how original. I should take it easy and just laugh it off, cause it's not really important, they're just beliefs. I just think people are just as ridiculous to expect not to be called out on lies, bigotry, intolerance and bullying simply because they're in the majority here. Does that sound like something you'd support out in RL? Sounds like what a lot of theists do too so it's a human condition I guess <see previous point on productive discussion and galvanizing effects>.
For instance I'd get probably more than a speed bump for constantly using A-sshole-theists in my signature and every time I spoke with them, or starting threads on the premise that I'm an atheist with ridiculous claims and arguments. I choose not because I don't find it funny or productive. It's not because I'm better than that or because I shouldn't based on the rules, but because I value my credibility and https://giphy.com/gifs/ubAZ725YVag36 is only funny the first time for me.
Listen I get it, you guys like laughing at theists, how original. I should take it easy and just laugh it off, cause it's not really important, they're just beliefs. I just think people are just as ridiculous to expect not to be called out on lies, bigotry, intolerance and bullying simply because they're in the majority here. Does that sound like something you'd support out in RL? Sounds like what a lot of theists do too so it's a human condition I guess <see previous point on productive discussion and galvanizing effects>.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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