• cynar@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Unfortunately there are too many people who dog whistle online. When they are called out, they claim they were sarcastic or trolling and “why can’t you take a joke?”. It can make many of us quite reactive to it.

    Given how much of today’s political hell grew out of “jokes”, it’s akin to walking into a veteran’s PTSD support group and firing off a cap gun. There are grounds where it could be a funny prank, but it’s 100% on you to not cross the line.

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        5 hours ago

        No, we are perfectly fine at reading. We just don’t accept the bullshit excuses as cover anymore.

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          43 minutes ago

          If you can’t read the tone of that comment, that’s a “you” problem.

          I used italics and everything. It should be very obvious.