Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!

Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.

If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post, there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    So what exactly happens to people who get really into Scott et al. and then realize that they’re racist? I mean people like OP who genuinely seemed shocked by how buddy buddy their “unorthodox” intellectuals are with blatant racists.

    Do they slowly disengage from rationalist-spheres, or do they just become cryptoracists like all the other idw types?

    • slopjockey@awful.systemsEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Also what the fuck?

      In your mind, is a racist who “possesses strong animus towards non-whites” a special category of person with which we should not engage in any kind of discussion? Or if we should not be casual towards them, how should we act? Why?

      • 200fifty@awful.systemsEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        is this trying to say “discrimination against racists is the real racism”? … Would that be “racismism”?

        • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          “should we really treat violent racists any differently from how we would casually treat a neighbour? what is it really you expect me to do do? why are you so ridiculous?”

          just some casual afternoon reframing of violent racism and dehumanising anyone that isn’t like themselves, no biggie

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      They start reading sneerclub and then see that the stereotypes about hwo horrible the place is are not true. Then they post, then they are lost.