What Is Code-Switching?

oh boy i love being told by some zoomer child that my relationship is oppressive because naomi's 10 years younger
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[@razorkid1525]

Step 1: designate a race as bad Step 2: link and code all good behaviours to said bad race Step 3: promote all negative behaviours Step 4: watch society destroy itself Step 5: offer communism as the replacement 😂😂😂😂

[@kxkxkxkx]

This is exactly what Marx and Lenin did with class - now translated to racial terms for American consumption

[@markzuckergecko621]

Weaponize every terrible person to fight your revolution for you.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

@@kxkxkxkxAlso makes me think of Mao’s “red” and “black” (good and bad) classes. My understanding is that qualities that made you independent got you in the “bad” camp Edit: Typo correction

[@RyuuRider]

Now don't put me in the Book for this, but wait a minute- is this why there's so much Knife-ear hatred? Dwarves are cool, but there's some serious propaganda against Elven culture. Though there's a lot of variety between The Elder Scrolls, Warhammer 40k, Lord of the Rings, and Dungeons & Dragons Elves.

[@Douglemagne]

That's a disturbingly accurate if slightly reductionist summary of what is happening. It would be bad enough if it was really just plain old run of the mill communism, but today, they do Race Communism and that is a racial genocidal movement rather than one that culls the educated from the population so they are easier to control. When the movement is all about ME and my family being dead, I have no choice but to oppose it with every fiber of my being. I could potentially be convinced to accept Marxist rule, but not this. This is insane and has to be fought against with everything we have.... not just to save the American cultural dream but to literally prevent genocide and world war.

[@mikedeary4390]

Im autistic and have had sexual intercourse... so there is someone out there that believes that im so autistic and childish that im not allowed to have sex. Great.

[@brotbrotsen1100]

They would, there are litterally examples of that. I remember there is that girl who is very very small, physically like a 12 year old or something but actually like 25 years old. And the left went after her boyfriend for dating her, calling him the usual slurs

[@chidoman1595]

Sorry, bro, but you've been molested

[@gryphon9185]

Only after you have done a test and acquired a license lol. Some people think they're so smart with their ideas to combat a up problem they themselves made up. They don't realise their ego has made their head so big, their brain has fallen out their ear hole in the process of making a stupid hot take.

[@-haclong2366]

Heck, same boat and I have kids. While most of my former classmates are forever alones, several did go to other countries and got girlfriends. It's way more difficult for Autistic men to get a girlfriend in the West where there is a strong social stigma than in the East.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@-haclong2366wait what? Other countries are chill about that?

[@wintermintmojo2418]

The funniest part of “queer coded” in online spheres is the people that say every strong male friendship is actually a homosexual relationship are the same ones lambasting men broadly for not having deep friendships

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

Yes, that's the point, the double standards is part of the subversion by those who just want us all shallow,bitter,hateful failures like them.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Women, especially minorities, have been radicalised to hate men and it's definitely not directly because of the CCP controlling so much of western marketing and tech

[@GeneralProfessor]

Which is especially funny once you consider that the average male friendship will usually be deeper and more genuine than female ones. Talk with women and you'll soon realize most still look over their shoulders for potential backstabs when it comes to their female friends. When they often say how they prefer male friends that is why.

[@frogjupiter]

Speaking of coding. I remember when some progs said that a Steven Universe character, can’t remember the name, was black coded. For context it was a giant talking gorilla who destroyed everything in the direction it walked.

[@Neon_Exodus_]

@@GeneralProfessortrue i actually wonder that sometimes why is it always ‘healthy male friendships this that blah blah’ when usually imo male friendships are more strong (no offense to anyone just genuinely asking)

[@cerulee]

Minor coding is just a way to infantilize women. Ever notice how nobody calls Mario minor coded, even though he is small and cute? It's just sexism with extra steps.

[@thecompareablezombie]

This I agree with, its also worrisome.

[@jasoncooper4737]

The mustache makes a strong presence.

[@cerulee]

@@jasoncooper4737 and women can't really grow facial hair, what are they supposed to do? have their date of birth tattooed on their arm or something?

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

@@cerulee I beg to differ! Some of us are cursed with moustaches... We just trim 'em or pluck 'em! Well, and then there's that one woman who is an actual bearded lady... I can't remember her name at the moment, but she has a beard most men would be THRILLED to have! (And that's no slam on her - she's chosen to embrace it, and good on her for it!)

[@nicholashodges201]

It's not just about infantilizing women. It's also about disrupting traditional pair bonding and family structure. So they infantilize women and demonize men. The left needs the idea that all men are secretly child hunting assaulters in the back of every woman's mind and it needs a chronic distrust of women in the back of men's minds.

[@khristian625]

For me, the queer-coding of close friendships between heterosexual men is the worst of it. These are the people that demand men be more emotionally available, that their friendships be more intimate, but when that actually happens in fiction, they go “lol gay” like the dudebros they want to pull away from

[@markzuckergecko621]

And also the same people who screech at anyone who points out stereotypes.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

* coughcoughsamandfrodocoughcough *

[@eddardgreybeard]

It's called gaslighting

[@FD87]

Well, no one really cares if its in fanfiction realm. But weirdos out there be harassing artists, authors and fan for pointing out that isn't canon.

[@-haclong2366]

Now that you've articulated it I suddenly realise that I've seen it everywhere.

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

I miss the times when code switching just meant that you didn't swear in front of your parents and you didn't say lame shit in front of your friends.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

True progress

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

Yeah, for me, I choose not to express myself fully in certain groups. I don't talk about things that are disallowed or that will cause strife, and I don't share things with certain people. I literally "mask" most of the time I'm around other humans, because "autistic", my dudes... It's ALL masking, LOL. As he was talking about it, I was like "OH, there's a name for this, eh?" Too bad they had to manipulate a good idea for evil...

[@eliseosterbrink8000]

@@kateshiningdeer3334 You're not supposed to be "fully yourself" in the vast majority of cases. That's just the way the world is. It would be nice if more people understood that and behaved more appropriately. Thank you for being able to control how much of yourself you put out there.

[@minespatch]

When I read the title, I assumed it had to do with computers. 😆 Boy, was I proved wrong.

[@cympimpin20]

I miss the times when we arrested people for being communists.

[@TheMightyKawama]

9:03 "Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend." - C.S. Lewis

[@josephahner3031]

C.S. Lewis is a timeless treasure.

[@Donuts8]

I hate that some people see a healthy male friendship and immediately go “THEY’RE GAY”.

[@laurendearnley9595]

And we wonder why men struggle with loneliness.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

​​@@laurendearnley9595Social media has made women's lives go from easy mode to cock shopping creative mode, which has lead to (weak) men getting super desperate and focused on "rizz". Lift, eat well, save money and let the put together ladies come to you. Don't be the little dork on social media (Quinton Reviews) hoping that pretending to be bi and just spewing out leftoid bs will land you the big tiddy emo girl.

[@hope-cat4894]

They can't remove their shipping goggles. It's welded to their eyes. 👀

[@Apostate_ofmind]

its because they have none, so they dont have any frame of reference.

[@tuseroni6085]

cus it's a fetish. look up "fujoshi"

[@samuelmatheson9655]

i should've listened to the fucking warning at the start

[@jackleonard7765]

I almost stopped editing ngl

[@filthy_peasant_the_one2134]

200% agreed

[@freddieoblivion6122]

Agreed - 3 mins in, I'm leaving.

[@loliH9]

Regrettably, I already knew about it. Thanks a lot, Transformers fandom.

[@alexipestov7002]

Leftist doublespeak make brain hurty *Migraine*

[@sol-hunter2332]

Gosh, I effing despise queer coding. The whole idea that two people can't have a close friendship without it being romantic is toxic, and the idea that you can't say "no, they are just friends" or you are branded as "homophobic," even if you are gay.

[@Lobsterwithinternet]

Sounds like all those morons that insisted that Sam and Frodo we're gay. Should just accuse them of cultural colonialism for forcing their standards on others.

[@SkylineFTW97]

In high school, a bunch of people thought I was gay because one of my close friends at the time was. I had very little self confidence, so I wasn't the type to just approach women romantically. A few girls I knew even got offended when they """ found out""" that I'm not gay. They brought it up to my gay friend and he just laughed at them for thinking I was at all.

[@tumultoustortellini]

Marisa and Manon....

[@dnidaz2553]

​@@SkylineFTW97lmao, they headcannoned u into being gay

[@sol-hunter2332]

@@SkylineFTW97 the sheer audacity to be offended that you didn't fit their head canon... it is that behavior that I call these people fetishists. They fetishise homosexual relationships, purr and simple.

[@rogierb5945]

Progs: some 20 years olds have stunted development and cant consent to sex with a 30 something Also progs: a 6 year old can consent to trans

[@kielbasamage]

“The age you can abort someone and the age you can screw them should be a Venn Diagram that looks like one circle. Wait, where did shotgun come fro-“

[@LagrangePoint0]

good one

[@AckReikTheGreatest07]

Does anyone else realize that a relationship between an older woman and a younger man almost never gets the same amount of outrage?

[@hildegardvonbingen9092]

Did you realize, that feminists freak Out, every time a man articulates a Standard for women He likes to date while women can expect the most absurd things from men. Women crave male Intention. They want to be showered in it without having to do anything to earn it and simultanously they also want to be shielded from Attention from men they dislike.

[@Ssyphoned]

Despite most of psychology saying the opposite, I guess you could say young adult men are ‘coded’ more mature because physical size or some shit…

[@shikikankillzone4239]

One of my most traumatic experiences was when a trans woman tried to rape me when I was 15. She'd always wait for me to finish my extracurricular english classes at about 20:00/21:00 and kept following me, once she jumped into the same bus as me (Which was empty) and sat right next to me and stroked my thigh... wtf I immediately asked for a stop and took another bus while running to another bus stop with more people. After that, I started carrying a box cutter on me and... I felt a little safer. Fast forward 2 months and she just stops with her car next to me when I was on one of the most desolate roads and as soon as I saw her, I bolted. I tripped after a dozen meters and she pounced on me and tried removing my jacket, I managed to wiggle my arm free and extend the box cutter a little, after which she punched me in the face and tried holding my arm down... The retard actually impaled herself on the blade when using her body to hold me down and just started running back to her car when I tried to stab her again. I filed a report to the police, but they never found her, I now have a scar on the back of my head from when she punched my head into the cracked concrete sidewalk. Sometimes, I wish I could have gone back in time and fixed that incident, maybe I'd have taken a better look at her or her car, maybe threatened her instead of fleeing or even stabbed her in the leg or the neck. I just wish nobody else encounters her. Hilarious how people say that, if a girl gets fucked before 18 by a man, it's paedophilia, but when a boy gets fucked before 18 by a woman, it's "luck". I certainly did not feel lucky and now I have a "fetish" for knives because of this incident and refuse to leave my house without one.

[@Shifter-1040ST]

When I was 18 I had a Japanese girlfriend, she was very petite and flat chested. She's 8 years older than me. Is she a pedo?

[@tuseroni6085]

even when the boy is a literal child.

[@cympimpin20]

One of the most infuriating things about the left in media is them staking claims to characters and then strong arming writers into capitulating to their retcon. They'll pick up on the smallest most insignificant details, like a chick having short hair or a guy dressing well (notice they have no problem using stereotypes in this manner) to claim a character is "coded gay", and then attack the writer until they back down and make them being gay canon. And they always follow their Tolerance->Acceptance->Celebration->Submission model. It will always start with "why can't you just accept a fanfic writer writing so and so gay/brown/trans? What harm does it do you?", but the end goal is *always* "So and so was always meant to be gay/brown/trans and you're a bigot if you don't cheer for it"

[@2awsommee4U]

Pretty much the whole Yamato gender discourse going on Twitter, saying she's trans even tho the author himself says she's a female but naw they can't accept the creator's word and try to inject their fanfiction into the story and even threaten violence against him.

[@raggens]

From what I figured out, Yamato saw Oden as a role model and tried to replicate him in any way she could - even down to the gender. But despite being referred to as a boy, she isn’t trans since a whole bunch of official art that only features female characters includes her in them

[@DRKTROOPER15]

See what they did to RWBY

[@malicekerendu3574]

That's velma's entire ark.

[@baskey3723]

As a fanfic reader myself, trans fics make me unhappy. Why. Its like a jumpscare

[@TheRagnarokknight]

So we're affiliating behaviors to skin color, now? Dear God, we ARE regressing, aren't we?

[@ilikeboom100]

We've been

[@howardmurphy8019]

Hard.

[@entropino9928]

Back to truth

[@borkguy]

Stereotypes come from culture, which then reinforce those stereotypes by embracing them. See: gang culture, rap culture as it relates to criminality being “cool”

[@gatergates8813]

​​​@kellinmurphy2505 criminality has been cool for a lot longer than gangster rap has existed though

[@MrWilson812]

Mina from MHA is one of the dumbest cases of people pushing black coding and it's amazing how it doesn't occur to these people how insulting it should be. The main reasoning for her is that she's thicc, likes to dance, and gets poor grades in school.

[@keonkla]

I love MHA as a anime but, the woke fanbase of socially malformed teenage girls is ruining things....the show isnt even a Rom com anime at all, but as useal these ladies cooped something for men in such a way.

[@mikesmith542]

My grandfather was a professor of English here in Canada (Ottawa U) who retired completely despising his profession and academia. One of the best lines I remember him saying was at a barbeque with a bunch of his previous students and peers (and me because I was 15 and loved hot dogs). It was on the topic of the evolution of the word "violence" within public discourse. I'm going to paraphrase and likely butcher it, but you get the idea: "The world seems filled with failed English majors attempting to re-interpret reality as they see fit because they are not capable of producing their own ideas or honestly engaging with things that they disagree with. Authorial intent means nothing and only they hold the key to the true meaning of all things." It was something like that but I think he swore a lot more.

[@saureco]

I grew up with 2 languages. Picked up a few more along the way. What these "intellectuals" don't understand is that words are created to carry a specific meaning. Snow is different from rain, even though they are both precipitation. By using one word instead of another, you convey a whole different context to what's going on. So to throw out the meanings of words like man, woman, racist, articulate, merit, etc. They are engineering a generation of stupidity and hubris. They will create adults that look you in the eye, confidently speak gibberish, and scoff at you for not understanding the message they in no way conveyed.

[@glad16252]

I’m a quarter Hispanic, my mom being half Hispanic, and my abuela being the full of it, born and raised in Venezuela. English is not my abuela’s first, or even second language, and her being in her 80s means what English she does know isn’t that amazing, so my entire life I’ve always spoke different to her in English because of that. Talking slower, emphasizing words, using simpler words that I know she knows. To a prog with 0 context, I’m a white guy talking down to a brown elderly woman. To my family, friends, and let's face it, people who aren’t mentally deficient, I’m making sure my abuela or an older woman is understanding what I’m saying. And in case anyone wonders why I don’t speak Spanish to her. I wasn’t taught it growing up and have no talent for the language at all.

[@cwg9238]

LISSEN

[@bitty_beastly47]

You say the entire thing in English except for abuela. Just say the English word for it. Fucking LARP

[@SkylineFTW97]

I'm mostly black, but about 1/4 Puerto Rican and 10-15% white. I'm tan skinned with curly black hair. Hispanics can tell pretty much immediately that I'm part Latino with most guessing Dominican or Puerto Rican (the latter of course being correct). That being said, I grew up around upper middle class white kids and don't speak with even a hint of ebonics. And while I do speak Spanish somewhat fluently, I am not a native speaker and didn't learn until I was 11 or 12. My dad, who my Latino blood comes from, doesn't speak Spanish at all since he didn't learn it growing up either. Both my parents speak with a slight tinge of ebonics, but neither sounds like they're from the hood. My mom sounds more like she's from the south than anything else (she's from the Midwest while her family is from Mississippi). My dad probably does too since he grew up in central Virginia. I just sound like a suburban white kid with mild autism. I speak very formally most of the time, my extended family says I speak the Queen's English. All this us to say that I am not really culturally or politically black or Latino. Doubly so when lefties learn my political beliefs (to give an idea, among the current crop of candidates, the one I resonate the most with is Vivek Ramaswamy. That is to say more conservative ) It's already common knowledge that dark skinned blacks often resent light or tan skinned blacks, especially if they're mixed at all. So I've been singled out and picked on by other blacks for not being black enough on multiple occasions. And then they wonder why we have no broader allegiance to the black community at large beyond our own families and friends (also because the black community is a dumpster fire of dysfunction and pretending otherwise doesn't help anyone), and why black men especially date outside their race so often.

[@theyellowmeaning7507]

@@SkylineFTW97 'ebonics' is just the natural progression of poor slang that evolved from lower class scots-irish dialects that concentrated in the US south.

[@SkylineFTW97]

@@theyellowmeaning7507 I know. Black culture isn't nearly as African as most black people think it is. It's just a load of copium they huff to justify maintaining a separate culture from whites when said culture is a damn mess.

[@JodyBruchon]

People change their behavior depending on the context they're in. What a shock.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Not to the extent that some people do. Hillary and AOC and friends love to talk down to various groups and change their entire way of speaking to one that is demeaning, insulting of intelligence, and, well, if anyone else did it that didn’t have a D after their names and weren’t in line, would be lambasted for.

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

Remember when Kamala went on that podcast to explain the Russia Ukraine conflict? 🙄 absolutely insulting. The hosts should have said something.

[@markzuckergecko621]

I went to jail a few times in my early 20s, just for short stints for alcohol related shit. And when I got out, just after a week or 2, I caught myself talking ghetto. My friends all had a good laugh at it. It was 100% subconscious, it was purely a result of me being around that and nothing but that for a while, and I went back to talking like a normal person pretty shortly after.

[@cwg9238]

idk im pretty consistently an asshole

[@jc7997aj]

Nah. Thats a 180. He's pretending to be black for cool points. It's pathetic. In my day we called them wiggers which was a sub category of Posers.

[@harrygenderson6847]

The claim that all (or almost all) attractive characters are 'minor coded' implies that only minors can be attractive... which, if that isn't the biggest self-report, I don't want to hear what is.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Gasp, the twittiots are all pedos???????

[@2wenty256]

I feel like Progs have gone full circle to the point where they are measuring skulls to determine if someone is "Black Coded".

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

"Oh your IQ is ab- Wait, I'm on KZbin

[@hurricanefury439]

i don't think they ever changed i think they just played the long game and repackaged prejudice as its own antidote

[@2wenty256]

@@hurricanefury439 yea, infact coding in general in this context is only ever based in prejudice, "oh this is definitely gay coded because they act a certain way" is a lil bit prejudice. ironic.

[@kaleviHekonen9527]

Being above the age of consent comes with the responsibility of knowing better. You don't get to cry abuse or pedophilia over age gaps if both parties are adults.

[@RyuuRider]

Precisely! That's inherent in the purpose of the age of consent - it's the point at which one is supposed to be able to decide for themselves. If people older than that can't choose their own partner then why isn't the age of consent higher? Metaphorically: They're arguing to tear down a fence without even knowing why it's there in the first place. The taboo isn't because they look young, it's because their minds aren't developed and they can suffer immensely for it. If anything, the biggest 'pedo' would be the younger in the couple due to degrading mental health in the older partner.

[@C_0_N]

The height thing pisses me off ngl 💀

[@matrixmeditator]

This has everything to do with women enforcing the social norms of women being unaccountable for everything. They know damn well what they’re doing. They simply perpetuate the victim narrative to absolve themselves from all responsibility. Women feign incompetence because they know they can just get some simp male to do the work for them. Read “the manipulated man” by Esther Vilar. it’s hard to find online because the book is pretty much shamed into obscurity; but a worthy read nonetheless.

[@mssophiad03]

@@C_0_Nyeah. I’m 5’7” but this is ridiculous especially considering, as he said, the avg height of a woman is 5’4”. These characters don’t even look childlike in my opinion. They both have pretty full womanly figures so even if they have youthful faces they’re still clearly adults.

[@thomaslacroix6011]

These people are incapable of forming risk-assessing theories and instead always go to power imbalances to determine abuse. Yes, if a 19 years old female friend says she's going on a one night stand with a 30 something guy, I'm gonna say this is real sketchy and unwise. Doesn't mean it's pedophilia or inherently abusive. The risk may be greater but that doesn't determine by itself the morality of the action.

[@MakkenziKreiga]

You're telling me the orange skinned, fiery haired, humanoid whose powers are fueled by her passions was based of a bronze skinned, redheaded, latina?

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

Obviously not, because code switching denotes that all boisterous and passionate women are black-coded, because duh, only black people can be aggressive and loud!

[@TwoBs]

@@TheOnlyPedroGameplays And have large hair, of course, because no other race has curly hair and we must pretend the big hair of the 80s never existed.

[@kaleviHekonen9527]

Trump being orange makes him 'latino-coded'.

[@MakkenziKreiga]

@@kaleviHekonen9527 So that's his secret to growing hispanic support.

[@osets2117]

​@@kaleviHekonen9527😂 they got me good!

[@hacim42]

Don't call out people who like Misa for being pedophiles, call them out for liking MISA. In the tennis match between Light and L, Misa is a golden retriever who runs onto the field mid-game and runs away with the ball.

[@saisameer8771]

Man! There are people who actually like Misa? Why? She's a mass murderer and is extremely annoying. Even the show tries way too hard to make you sympathize with her.

[@hildegardvonbingen9092]

​@@saisameer8771 Because she is hot and 200% loyal and subservient to her man.

[@addex1236]

​@@hildegardvonbingen9092yah but like two of things you mentioned are deep mental issues she has

[@saisameer8771]

@@hildegardvonbingen9092 She's the kind who would chain you up in a basement for talking to another girl.

[@seg162]

@@saisameer8771 And the kind of people into her would brick up at that prospect

[@MaverickhunterXZero]

It's ironic with "Minor-coding" since they will lambast anime for it, but look at western shows like shera, high guardian spice, and steven universe. Take the newest superman show for example. Louis is now 20 and acts like a middle-schooler, yet this is okay. As well, is it's perfectly okay for them to go at length about what the characters are doing that you can't see. Never forget who calls you those names. Their likes are always public.

[@Anatolope]

I knew a white kid in middle school who talked black, acted black, threw up gang signs, walked stupid and had his pants sagging and that was just how everyone just thought that was how he was but then one day on open night when parents came in he was wearing normal walking normal and his parents literally looked like Bruce Wayne’s parents. I went up and said hi to him in front of his parents and started talking in such a different way. Like if I was looking directly at him I would’ve thought it was someone else talking. He went from “sup homie what’s up” to “oh hey how are you these are mom and dad”

[@connoisseurofcookies2047]

He sounds 'painfully middle-class'

[@BitchChill]

Niggas when the manager walks in

[@jkaltmix1992]

Dang, can't believe his parents looked dead

[@chalkdeamon6070]

Sounds like someone with an emotionally absent father. 😂

[@ionplasma5766]

Was it j-roc

[@markzuckergecko621]

The fact that these people can't draw a clear line between a small woman and a little girl is one of the most disturbing accidental self reports I've ever heard.

[@eddardgreybeard]

Yet these people will say being a map is a valid sexual orientation. They don't actually care, they're just trying to destroy you any way they can.

[@oldoutlet6946]

It's as if all their arguments and constantly needing to prove they're not the bad guy is compensating for something.

[@grimnir8872]

Reminds me of the gamesjournalist saying big tits are pedophilic.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@oldoutlet6946yeah….

[@3eve0n]

yep, classic projection if you ask me.

[@LegalizeTax]

I learned about Code Switching in school as part of my Autism Class (getting the Autists to understand how to be Normies). It broadly does just mean talking differently for different contexts and audiences. Nothing wrong about it, just an observable behavioral phenomenon

[@wyssmaster]

"twenty-one is too young to consent to sex with someone in their 30s in a meaningful way but a five year old should be able to decide whether he or she should be taking hormones and puberty blockers"

[@SynthwavelLover]

Cool strawman. Gonna need sources/examples on that. I don't think even most progressives believe this (I'm progressive and I don't think puberty blockers should be taken that early that's insane).

[@wyssmaster]

@@SynthwavelLover there are pushes from a significant number of regressive leftists who are freaking out about "gender affirming care" for children, with or without parental consent, on top of proposed (possibly passed?) laws in states like California that would have "trans children" kidnapped from their parents if the parents refuse to allow their children to get permanently sterilizing surgery

[@sol-hunter2332]

13:25 "prolife was started out of racism." Oh dear... she doesn't know the origins of planned parenthood, does she?...

[@eddardgreybeard]

Well, considering pro life became the opposition to abortion which started out of racism, it's a bit of a correct-by-proxy situation.

[@SubtleStair]

Yes, Margaret Sanger's racism.

[@kittycat5972]

Lol was thinking the exact same thing. Wasn’t abortions created to eradicate black people or something? 😂

[@jendoe9436]

Pro-life: It is horrible that certain groups are encouraged to murder their unborn babies and are considered too low IQ to make their own decisions. Let’s work to show all people have value and lift them up so they can make good choices for themselves. Anti-Life: How dare you think people we think as lesser have any value!! Racists!!!!!!!

[@seg162]

@@kittycat5972 If you mean, "did Sanger create Planned Parenthood to genocide black Americans", then it's debatable. Sanger was a eugenicist in general, though, at a time where that was popular in America and probably also western Europe. She definitely hated Aboriginal Australians. If you mean "weren't abortions created to eradicate black people", then no, abortions-- or at least methods that attempted the termination of gestating human beings-- are pretty ancient.

[@oldoutlet6946]

The more someone claims to not be a pedo without anyone asking, the more I'm inclined to believe they're hiding something.

[@the11382]

They are protesting too much.

[@spudeism]

Dr. Pizza or Peter Bright @JulianDreamLand Amir0x or Neogaf mod Christopher John Goldberg UN child rights group that tried to ban manga and one of their chief advocates for jailed for 5 accounts of "forced-fun-time" with playground age persons. Thomas Cheung Alden Bunag Just to name a few I've collected.

[@jonahc2807]

The ones who scream the loudest usually have the most to hide.

[@neongenesisevangelion587]

Especially if their going around needlessly trying to assign such dastardly proclivities onto others over mundane and normal things. Whilst hypocritically defending actually egregious sexualized content/behaviors being directed at actual children in real life! Notice when you look up many of these posters, they’ve self contradictingly promoted/advocated drag-shows for children, more unnecessary and sexually explicit (borderline pornographic) materials in sex education courses, younger age of consent laws, and teens starting only-fans, etc! But Tom F$&king Cruise appearing in a movie opposite a middle aged adult love interest 10 or so odd years young than him is apparently too beyond the pale for these people?!

[@GhoulishGash]

It's always the people with the most questionable character that are the most ardent moralits.

[@mattd5240]

The person who said that 5'7 is the common hieght for children has clearly never looked down in their life. And deserves getting punched.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Tbf, I have been over 6' since I was 10 but I also am from a family of comically tall people, but I am 100% an outlier

[@mattd5240]

@@MaxiemumKarnage A 6 foot tall 10 year old would be terrifying.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

@@mattd5240 My nickname was ichabod crane, so no, no.

[@Aubreykun]

I remember that thread and it was a very well-done troll post. The person never did anything before or after it either, but it was based on things people were saying at the time - just taken to extremes.

[@MagicIsaacSage]

A "Fun" argument I once heard on the age-gap discourse was some brainlet shouting about how you look at an age gap and say something along the lines of "OMG, DON'T YOU REALIZE YOU WERE IN THE 3RD GRADE WHEN THEY WERE BORN?!?!?!? HOW CAN YOU NOT LOOK AT THEM AND HEAR A BABY CRY????" That's a REAL sign that someone peaked as a minor. 😂😂

[@highadmiralbittenfield9689]

As far as the "whitewashing" discourse, it has been around for decades. My uncle, long since retired, taught at job corps. Most of his students were black. Any time one would attempt to study or learn or ask questions in class, other black students would loudly tell them to quit acting white. Its quite sad.

[@cwg9238]

conditioned anti-intellectualism with a sort of 'bucket of crabs' mentality, it really has been a disaster

[@jamesdean8260]

One of the main issues in that culture - trying to succeed is betrayal to the group.

[@SkylineFTW97]

I'm a predominantly black dude who grew up in the suburbs around middle and upper middle class white kids. Even my black classmates were all the children of yuppies until I was in middle school. And we got picked on for not being black enough. Doubly so because none of us spoke with any trace of ebonics.

[@vDARKICEv]

⁠@@SkylineFTW97 Same situation, Black kid growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood in the suburbs. Then I went to high school in the intercity and definitely got the classic “You talk white.” line from other Black kids because I didn’t pick up on certain phases or slang. Someone who befriend me and someone I still keep in touch with to this day legit said to me & I quote “Stop caring about what other nig*as think, ain’t nothing wrong how you talkin’. Fuck them.”

[@ghoulbuster1]

Crabs in a bucket! How dare you be civilized, act like a monkey like the rest of us!

[@CocktailsConsoles]

At the end of the day, these people wouldn't die on this hill. It's a form of power that they get to wield. Welcome to the Left's version of bible thumping

[@markzuckergecko621]

When the left all clutch their pearls about Christian purity, it's not out of principle, it's because they want their version of purity to dominate the culture.

[@elusivemayfly7534]

Lol, I have thought about the Bible thumping comparison, too. I’m Christian but have always been turned off by the “hellfire” / “turn and burn” types. I think most Christians are, and I see way less of it these days. How weird to see the same zeal in a completely different context. Honestly, it can be worse in some ways because they are still learning to “proselytize”

[@nova_supreme8390]

So instead of threatening with hellfire you are threatened with re-education camps and instead of not getting to heaven you are not allowed on Twitter?

[@cwg9238]

'moral' manipulation, you either agree with me in any instance no matter how unreasonable, or youre evil and so i can justify being evil to you

[@GameFuMaster]

they're validation seekers, that's all they are. Give them no validation and they'll immediately need medication.

[@ohwnosrepeht]

"This is the common lefty media analysis take nowadays. What the actual story is - doesn't matter. What the actual author originally intended can be ignored; what matters is the coding. What politics can we overlay onto this media, so we can claim it as our cultural space?" Thank you Dev, for providing such clear summations of such leftist phenomena!

[@SynthwavelLover]

Right-wing media does the same exact thing it's just over different subjects. Irrational, emotionally-charged, thinking is not a leftist-exclusive phenomena. If you disagree with this then it's almost certainly proven my point since your disagreement would likely either stem from 1) ignorance or 2) irrational, emotionally-charged, thinking.

[@ohwnosrepeht]

@@SynthwavelLover irrelevant whataboutery following by self-congratulating circular reasoning, good job buddy

[@SynthwavelLover]

@@ohwnosrepeht Your assessment of my argument is inaccurate. It's not "whataboutery". It's quite relevant to point out right-wing media uses similar tactics since the point is this isn't exclusively left-wing phenomena. So if it's not exclusive to left-wing media then why are you slapping the label "left-wing" on it? It's like calling chicken-eaters "lefties" despite the fact many right-wing and left-wing people eat chicken. I don't think you're arguing against left-wing media in good faith and merely want to push your narrative of what "left-wing media" is... which is apparently only Jezebel. The following argument I made isn't circular. I made careful choices in the words I wrote- I said "almost certainly" and "likely", meaning there are potentially other reasons for your disagreement. Even disregarding that- making an if, then statement is not in of itself circular reasoning. "IF you're making emotional, irrational arguments THEN you're making emotional, irrational arguments" If A is A, then A is A. As mentioned previously, there are MULTIPLE examples of right-wing media being emotionally, irrationally driven not caring about the original author's intent, not caring about xyz's truth, but merely trying to push their own propaganda. Many right wingers (like you I'm assuming) presumably watch and agree with said claims since we see them defending and parroting their owner's talking points online. THEREFORE, if you ignore that, as far as I can tell you yourself are being emotionally, irrationally driven and not being logical. Even if it were true that my argument were fallacious that does not necessarily dismiss everything I've said. For instance- maybe I unintentionally used a fallacious argument to argue for the fact we need water in order to survive... that doesn't negate the fact we need water to survive. Cool strawman and using big grown-up words to make yourself sound smart homie. Inb4 adhom; I've provided plenty of legitimate arguments so hopefully you don't just focus in on that like a lens because my legit arguments are too hard to deal with.

[@ohwnosrepeht]

@@SynthwavelLover SFO: Talks about left-wing media analysis Me: "Thanks for talking about left-wing media analysis!" You, a big boy: "HOW DARE YOU NOT TALK ABOUT RIGHT WING MEDIA ANALYSIS REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

[@SynthwavelLover]

@@ohwnosrepeht Wrong. You: "Look at this thing that ONLY left-wing media totally does." Me: "No right-wing media does it too it's dishonest to say otherwise. You're positing this thing but it's simply not true." You: "Uhm erm uhm y-you're just angry and and logical fallacy and a-nd reeeee erm uhm you're the baby and im the chad erm uhm"

[@Phirestar]

Damn. Just learned that my 62 year-old mother is apparently “minor-coded”. Y’know, here I thought that the gray hair and the wrinkles meant that she could sometimes receive a senior citizen discount, but as it turns out, her being 5’2 makes her a “literal child”. You think you know someone, until you don’t...

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

Yeah, apparently, I'm minor-coded at 42... I don't know how to feel about that... But hey, my Great Grandmother was only 4'9", so I guess it runs in the family...

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

​@@kateshiningdeer3334Don't even acknowledge the insane ramblings of terminally-online leftoids

[@sleepparalysisatthewheel5101]

The arrested development required to think adults are 'too young' for some relationships yet also commonly thinking that minors can make informed decisions regarding sexuality/identity is certainly strange and hypocritical. Unless there's reasons to try to blur the line between adults and children...

[@AJadedLizard]

I think it's fun to note that Oregon (I believe it was) removed vending machines from high schools about a decade ago because teenagers can't make an informed decision about what they eat, while that same state also allows teenagers to solicit genital mutilation surgeries that will sterilize them for life.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@AJadedLizardare you kidding me? The removal of vending machines sounds like virtue signaling for “we can’t keep fuckin paying for these, nobody is using them right and they’re a waste of our state money”

[@homelessrobot]

@@TheOnlyPedroGameplays i think its more "We are ashamed that all of our kids are obese, but it's your fault"

[@TheFunctioningInsomniac]

I wonder if the folks who think that someone doesn’t have a fully-functioning brain until age 25 think that we should raise the voting age to 25.

[@potatortheomnipotentspud]

​@@TheFunctioningInsomniacAbsolutely not. They want it to be lower......along with other things of course.

[@genocidehero9687]

They only care about the age if the older one is a man. If its a woman then its YASS QUEEN SLAY

[@Trollificusv2]

Yeah! I was noting that they freak out about males responding to their hard-wired biology and finding fresh young women desirable to breed with...that is the definition of feminine beauty, that doesn't change no matter how old you get. I've been married over 40 years, love that woman dearly but at NO POINT did I ever start finding chubby, wrinkly grey-haired women sexy. Nothing to do with pedophilia. I know what I used to find beautiful, and I still do. Also note that old women don't find gimpy old fat men or even Dad-bods sexy...they ogle young, fit, muscular young men. Nobody gives 'em any shit about it either.

[@lordmars2387]

Considering you once said you'd have to circle back to the "anime is pedophilia rabbithole" I figured that was going to be the focus here. Congratulations Dev, I'VE BEEN FOOLED AGAIN YEEEEAHH!!!!

[@immikeurnot]

The left trying to turn Frodo and Samwise gay has always bugged me. Sam is just that ride or die friend who's got your back no matter what. More of us need to be friends like Samwise. This is the level of friendship we all need to aspire to. It's pretty obvious that their relationship was (also) informed by Tolkien's experiences in WWI.

[@cameocalloway920]

I'm a heterophilic cis gender white male. Assigned black at birth. I didn't choose this. It was choose for me.

[@kxkxkxkx]

I'm a petite bull dyke gay queer woman trapped in a very large man's body 🕊 so this is what it sounds like... When doves cry

[@markzuckergecko621]

I identify as a racist. So nobody can get mad when I do racist stuff, because I'm just living my truth.

[@brotbrotsen1100]

I'm just a normal Mahagoni table, weirdos.

[@gavinr4214]

Honourary

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

Im a cisgender, heterosexual American eagle trapped in a teenage boy’s body

[@sardonically-inclined7645]

The second half of this has a hilarious undertone. So long as the male is older, the female is essentially a child, but point out that they said that and they'll screech 'til they go hoarse.

[@jffry890]

Any time Reddit makes a thread about a male celebrity dating a young woman I love reading the controversial comments saying just that. Downvoted to oblivion and all kinds of mental gymnastics on how the woman is both independent and a victim.

[@cwg9238]

the obsessive outrage over age differences is quite bizarre, and seems unique to north americans

[@killking72]

That's how it's been for a damn long time. The first time I remember seeing shit like this was how men are rapists if they're drunk and have sex with a drunk woman. Because a woman's mental faculties are inherently lower than a man's so if they're both equal drunk the guy is still in more control of himself.

[@AJadedLizard]

@@jffry890 I'm increasingly coming to the realization Progs, especially Prog women, don't actually believe in consent. Even if they agreed to it, even if they were extremely enthusiastic about it at the time, they can always change their minds after the fact and claim it was coercion or they weren't really feeling it or whatever and we just have to go along with it because, well, women can withdraw consent after the fact. I knew a girl a while back who was 24 and had just gotten out of a relationship with an 18 year old (yes, you read that right) and even though she was absolutely the mature adult in this situation she spun it as if she was the victim and he'd coerced her into this. At 30, I won't even fuck with actual 24 year olds and she's out here with a literal teenager and somehow he was the problematic one? The worst part is that a lot of our mutual friends had taken her side in this whole thing, like somehow, at 24, she wasn't fully capable of making decisions like this for herself but the kid she'd been "dating" was 100% in command of all his faculties.

[@cwg9238]

@@AJadedLizard or more specifically they dont believe in individual consent, some other entity or authority has to decide for you if you can or cant.

[@christianmires5128]

The minor coded one is killing me, I can't imagine actually going to a real woman and telling them, "They are too childlike," so they're promoting pedophilia. And then comparing a VG character to a real-world woman of indiscernabe age is "vaguely pedo." My brain melts, and I regret watching this video.

[@Groddon]

Queer-coded... 10 years ago was called gay-baiting or something like that.

[@CoryTheRaven]

My favourite is queer-coding. I remember seeing some weirdo talking once about "non-romantic same-sex queer relationships" and, like, dude, that's a friendship. That's what we used to call "friends." We've gotten to the nadir where we can't understand human relationships that aren't sexual without describing them in some weirdly pseudo-sexual way. But the killer is minor-coded... brought to you by the same people who think actual child sex trafficking is a right-wing QAnon conspiracy theory.

[@CoryTheRaven]

Oh f**k, I posted this comment before getting to the part where someone said that NOT murdering Black babies is white supremacy. I'm done. Stick a fork in me.

[@CoryTheRaven]

Okay, I just ran this by my wife. She says that guys aren't even datable until they're at least 25. She read a Victorian etiquette guide that described boys under "five and twenty" as being of the "age of detestability."

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

Not everything involves sex....even I know this and never bring sex crap to public even though I'm a nsfw artist and got a collection that make sodem look like mlp. Like my god...how low are these people? It just convinces me I'm being pulled down to he'll by bitter failures who want to drag us all down .

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

@@CoryTheRaven Well, TBH, that etiquette guide isn't wrong, LOL. A lot of teen males are pretty scuzzy, and they don't get better until the hormones sort of sort themselves out. And it's interesting it's 25, since what we know now about brain development seems to agree with that!

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

@@darkzeroprojects4245 Yeah. I sometimes wonder where the "bottom" is, too... Just when I think things can't get worse, they seem to find a way. It's very black-pilling at times. Funnily enough, some of my best online friends are furries, and they're a hellova lot saner than pretty much any progressive I've met online! If you'd told me that a few years back, I'd have been like "Wait, WHAT???" Who knew?

[@libertyprime2013]

Code switching is a real term. Basically, it is when bilingual people switch from one language to another. So it’s annoying when SJWs take over legitimate terms and mire them.

[@MagerBlutooth]

This reminds me of the LGBT Fanbase trope on TVTropes. There's pretty much no character-driven property where it can't apply, so you can basically find it on every YMMV page if the property is popular enough. If imagination is the only limitation, there's no barrier to entry.

[@scienceface8884]

You just reminded me of a Lindsey Ellis video from years ago about queer coded characters. She kept referring to Scar from The Lion King as queer coded and all I could think the entire time was "He's not acting gay, that's just how Jeremy Irons talks!!" No surprise it's the purview of people who think black people need to act a certain way and people who are watering down the term "pedo" the same way they did "nazi".

[@eddardgreybeard]

Or "a gay man wrote this so everything that came from him is queer coded." And they don't give a shit about pedophilia, they're just trying to destroy you.

[@blackosprey2219]

And I'm reminded of the stupid controversies a few years back about how "orc = black people," despite no real basis for it beyond some journos thinking that anything muscular and warlike must be a black person.

[@eddardgreybeard]

@@blackosprey2219 And somehow it says nothing about them that their minds go immediately to black people when someone describes orcs.

[@DuneStone6816]

I remember that. She seemed to conflate flamboyance with queerness, and then claim a lot of Disney villains were gay. I would have just assumed the filmmakers made them like that because the villains were often vain and arrogant and hammy villains are just fun to watch.

[@EnderOfSnazz]

@@blackosprey2219 I always liked that controversy. Especially because it was kinda obvious to anyone that knew anything about cultures, that most Orcs like those from World of Warcraft, generally tended to be inspired by VERY generic "Plunderer" and "Pillager" cultures, like for example, majorly Vikings, and I believe there was also a lot of Celtic inspiration in there too (although I don't remember if Celtics were considered "Plunderers", but that just cements how generally vague the inspirations for "Orc-Culture" was in general). That whole controversy is just one of many examples of absolute ignoramuses being the ones to start shit that never needed to be started, just because they couldn't be bothered to think "Maybe I should look into this before trying to make any big statements". Research? The fuck is that?

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

I'm blond. Children tend to be blond and have their hair darken as they age, meaning I'm minor-coded. I'll be setting the police on anyone whoever flirted with me from now on, thanks Dev!

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

Heyyyy

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

@@TheOnlyPedroGameplays JAIL!

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@KyriosHeptagrammaton yes, because I’m 14 and my maturity is adult-coded, making me a pedo even as a teenager

[@ghoulbuster1]

The shota cop

[@saisameer8771]

Hey baby! You look like you're into wrinkled skin.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

I dropped my phone on my face and it hurt. Due to my apparent lack of care to let my phone hit me, I’m too mentally impaired as an autistic to not be autismo-coded

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

My boss sees me as so autistic-coded that whenever anything involving pure repetitive actions involving numbers pops up, I'm the man for the job in his eyes. Oh wait, he's just smart and knows people's strong points.

[@TheOnlyPedroGameplays]

@@MaxiemumKarnagepizza mozzarella

[@Foremarkex]

I do kinda feel like a huge part of this whole "Male loneliness" thing is because there is way too much additional "Coding" that can be added to the situation now, and it's just... safer to avoid it all. Sam, Frodo, Merry and Pippin are just guys in their 20's sent on an adventure. But now that's gay coding so it complicates guys in their 20's doing guys in their 20's things.

[@talkingtakotaco8611]

I think that male loneliness and also male friendships is so misunderstood in general by those who use the "coding" language that the concept of close male friendships is so unimaginable that the only explanation in their world is for it to be "queer coded". Despite all the new language, this kind of system is actually very inflexible.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

"Those dudes who grew up together are close???? Gay!" - Chick on her 19th "best friend"

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

As a woman who actually "Speaks Guy", and understands it, it's so weird to me that people fail to understand male friendship. It's ENTIRELY different from female friendship, yes, but it's...purer, I think, is the word I'd use. There's no manipulation. Once you have actually made friends with a guy, he's someone you can wholly rely on. And you'd better be someone HE can wholly rely on, too. And he's gonna rag on you, and you'd better be ready to fling that shit right back at him. But if you can? Wow. Such great friends! Gimme male friends over female any day of the week!

[@getalife805]

Underage 21 yo is a term I still don't understand

[@varnix1006]

SJWs like to speak in Oxymoron.

[@battokizu]

SHES 25 YOU MONSTER

[@gellax111]

I believe there's a word for it: oxymoron

[@bishopofeternity48]

Bitter old women want to poison the well for their younger, often more beautiful counterparts.

[@jacksonguillory8114]

​@@bishopofeternity48 you mean "Bitter, old DEMOCRAT women"? Or nah lol

[@MegadeathAdams]

Claiming anything as "coded" is the non-argument equivalent of that one kid on the playground who obnoxiously always has some power that makes them invincible.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Literally though, 90% of these dorks are those kids whose parents never told them to stop being a sperg

[@GeneralProfessor]

The whole "code" business is akin to external trans"gender"ism, where instead of defining your own identity and imposing it on others you define the identity of others and force them into compliance. There may be some overlap with this and the sissification fetish. That fetish thing should be considered in general with anything involving the trans business.

[@Trollificusv2]

That little pissant. Kids: "Shot you with a pistol, Bobby!!" Bobby: :Nu-uh! I'm immune against pistols!" Kids: "Got you with a grenade, Bobby!" Bobby: "Nu-uh! I'm immune to grenades!" Kids: "Hah! Got ya with a rock to your stupid head, Bobby!" Bobby: "Waaaah! Teacher! Teacher! They hit me with a rock for NO REASON!" Yeah. Hated that kid.

[@randomduck8679]

​@@Trollificusv2Cut Bobby some slack. He didn't even use a force field.

[@SutekhTheDestroyer]

It really feels like the (pathetically absurd) term ‘post-minor’ has been invented to allow people in their 20’s to drag-out their adolescence in perpetuity, and as such avoid all the usual responsibilities that come with being an adult.

[@Aubreykun]

As dev pointed out immediately after - that specific person has some kind of fetish for pretending to be a toddler. It's possible that they have some kind of trauma and were causing issues by projecting their problems on onto society + using their fetish to cope. 100% someone who needs a mentor of some kind to help them.

[@NicholasBrakespear]

To be honest, I felt this way as soon as "young adult" fiction came along. I found myself thinking, what the hell is a young adult? Do you mean a teenager? Because if you mean a teenager... well, they should be reading adult books. There should be kids books, and then adult books. That's it. I guess that was the thin end of the wedge when it comes to the infantilization of the West.

[@Aubreykun]

@@NicholasBrakespear "YA fiction" is really for around 14-23 year olds, skewing in the lower end of that. It used to skew more in the middle in the older books - The _A Wrinkle In Time_ series has some pretty insane stuff in it, for example. Outside of fiction, "young adult" typically means 18-25 (sometimes slightly higher, up to 27, and sometimes as low as 16 - depends on the location and context). This consists primarily of people in college, apprenticeships, interns, and early-career hops. It's also - traditionally, as this has fallen apart somewhat - normally around when people marry. The dividing line is partly cultural. Think those "all my friends are working/have kids/etc" memes that go around now, those are for people who have passed out of the "young adult" stage.

[@AkiRa22084]

Sam and Frodo's story about friendship would have been undermined if "those people" had their way.

[@Razornuke]

Im so happy we're in such a progressive time where we can judge someone racially based on their behavior or their race's (typically) offensive stereotype. Very forward and ethical.

[@Zetact_]

It basically boils down to "what can I use as a weapon to browbeat you into giving me more power"? Like there was a recent story about some French activist getting thrown out of an anime con for harassing Akamatsu Ken over his stance that manga artist's freedom of expression should be protected, specifically calling him a paedo, but if you looked at her previous Tweets you would see her actively defending Cuties. Also speaking of Akamatsu-sensei, he is a case where the reaction to his works would show the double standard because especially in Negima (where the primary setting/cast are middle schoolers) he would tend to draw a lot of characters as looking/acting way older than they actually canonically were (to the extent that if you picked up random manga chapters focusing on those characters you might assume that they were high school or maybe even college students) yet I doubt people afford them the same standard and say, "It's fine because they're adult coded." I wouldn't say that AOC is Latina because AOC wouldn't say she's Latina, she's "Latinx".

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

I would say that AOC is a fucking idiot who should go back to tending bars (and get some dental work)

[@danielsurvivor1372]

14:36 And then they have a nerve to say it's LIBERTARIANS who want a test for licence to engage things to become a reality 😂

[@untethered24]

I think we've established that Twitter is the worst invention ever.

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

I get where you're coming from, but like everything else, Twitter is only a tool. It's how that tool is USED that is the problem. Much like Reddit, that way. The "good parts" of Reddit are GREAT, and the "bad parts" are a nightmare hellscape. Same tool, different uses of it. Twitter has proven to be a good tool for getting companies to actually pay attention to you when you can't get customer service to do so, which is an absolute godsend for that purpose! Unfortunately, it also makes them listen to the screaming minority instead of understanding that's exactly who they are - a vocal minority, who will never be happy, no matter what the company does.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Giving the 3rd world magic boxes wasn't a great idea either, nor was allowing the CCP to own so much of the west's marketing and advertising industries

[@thiccactus]

Twitters gone buddy, its X now

[@NicholasBrakespear]

@@kateshiningdeer3334 "Twitter is only a tool. It's how that tool is USED that is the problem" No, if you actually examine the nature of that "tool", it becomes apparent that its basic communication patterns are anathema to civil discourse and a healthy society. To put it in very simple terms, a traditional forum-style approach to social interactions on the internet may not be perfect, but is fundamentally a lot healthier because it is a clearly-defined topic-focused narrative, in which the original post becomes less and less relevant the more communication happens. With Twitter, the communication pattern is... more like a series of bullet holes; brief impacts, designed to grab attention almost by definition. The subsequent response isn't a clearly-defined linear narrative, reducing the actual individual significance of the original post with every subsequent post; it's a branching pattern like cracks in a mirror, where the original post's significance is actually amplified the more people interact with it, devoid of any larger context, and the mass of replies and quotes all operate in a more independent manner rather than becoming part of the clearly-defined ongoing narrative. Essentially, Twitter's fundamental communication pattern amplifies and encourages the worst behaviours, and exaggerates - by design - the worst aspects of knee-jerk, out of context reaction, and the biggest egos. It teaches people not to work as one, not to come together for the purposes of drawing attention to something in a natural way, but to seek the elevation of individual voices at all times. It is a terrible, terrible tool, and has done almost irreparable damage to the Western world.

[@LadyHawke78]

Remember- in “woke left” spaces, whiteness = CAPITALISM. Its not even necessarily about skin color. If you uphold capitalism, you uphold “whiteness”- regardless of the actual color of your skin. This is why a lot of people of Asian heritage get accused of being “white-adjacent” because their cultures uphold values traditionally associated with capitalism (i.e: meritocracy, hard work, family.)

[@heinoustentacles5719]

'model minorities' is a term I've heard thrown around.

[@LadyHawke78]

@@heinoustentacles5719 - yeah, I learned that term from friends of mine who are of Asian heritage. It sounds racist asf, imo.

[@draketheduelist]

Of one of the many things I'm fond of saying: I'm from Baltimore. Thug comes in _every_ color. Pretty much every black stereotype you know (knocking up liquor stores, pants hanging down below the ass, graffiti, pointing guns sideways...) are tropes that Baltimorons of _every_ color dabble in. What most people don't get is that the "thug life" thing isn't a racial culture at all, but a _convict_ culture. It's a sort of battle-hardened "coolness" that the weak are especially susceptible to due to the demonization of veterans post-War-on-Terror (and post-Vietnam in the 90's) and thus there are no genuinely positive examples of emotional and physical sturdiness and dignity for the young with such potential for positive strength to model themselves after. (I'd say they should look to their fathers, buuuuuut...) In that vacuum... they found _their own_ role models.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Fatherless behaviour

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

"Baltimorons" - I haven't heard that one... Good term!

[@Trollificusv2]

Sounds like it might also be related to Glenn Loury's "Badass MoFo Problem" that he notes in black communities. Where the best and brightest of the young black men don't strive to be the most responsible, the best-educated or smartest, etc, but rather "The Baddest MoFo in the 341" (or wherever). It's really destructive, for the individuals and the communities.

[@keonkla]

@@Trollificusv2 Part of that problem is black men who reject it and try to do their own thing. They become ostracized as a result, not just by other black men but by black women severely as well. Its tiring hearing BW talk all that about how BM should be more responsible and less thuggish and demonize us yet,they will only ever call BM who don't partake in the culture losers. Yet how are black men supposed to break out of this cycle when their own racially adjacent women will ostracize them for not being stereotypes? I gave up on that community ever fixing itself and I as a BM make all my friends and Love life and long term relationships across all racial lines. Much more free and less outright stressed that way.

[@Sheriden.]

I am “minor coded” because of my appearance. I call it a curse because people actually treat you like a child.

[@Lyrikle]

"Ashido is black coded" She's literally japanese and bright fucking pink.

[@orboakin8074]

4:40 This one, in particular, was just weird. So being a responsible human being is tantamount to being white? 🤔🤔I have learned so many new terms as a Nigerian while in the west: Stuff like colorism, [Insert term]-coded, cultural appropriation etc You terminally online westerners have it so good that you literally get bored enough to create new words to define non-existent problems just to spice up your lives.

[@burgertime434]

That’s entirely correct. We’re so bored with our safe and well fed existence, that we have to create conflict just to feel alive. Kind of fucked up right? Maybe we all carry the seeds of our own destruction.

[@orboakin8074]

@@burgertime434 Yeah, good point, friend. Lord knows in my country, we cannot call ourselves flawless. I guess all societies have this issue but to varying degrees

[@internetzenmaster8952]

My friend, you just described a term we've had long before social media: "First world problems." The problem is that social media has allowed these nonsensical issues to take priority over issues that matter, such as war, poverty, world hunger and the like.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

We basically need a war at this point, but nukes and drones would make it pointless

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

Thing is, this is really only a problem that "the rich" and "the far left" have. Those who are poorer, and on the right, have much larger worries than this crap. Like keeping food on the table, taking care of ourselves and our families, and trying to keep the left from freaking destroying everything they touch.

[@BigScreamingBaby]

We should troll these guys by saying certain characters are like Aryan-coded or Racist-coded or Homophobe-coded ect. We should pick out character that are very popular in those circles and say stuff like "_______ is such a great representation of us Homophobes the way they act so _____________ really shows their true feeling about the gays and makes _______ so clearly Homophobe-coded" and then just sit back and watch them screech. Im nit sure if this is alredy a thing but it should be.

[@kimwhatmatters4085]

No you’re just racist. The point is you have to speak differently at work than at home. Non whites have to assimilate

[@llamasmeowing2061]

Great idea!

[@gavinr4214]

Good Sir I think I know the place you should propose this wonderful idea! 4chan/pol/ Though I do warn you it is often said that after one visit you're there forever.

[@BigScreamingBaby]

@@gavinr4214 It would be something for them to do they've been really inactive in their trolling as of late.

[@ottopotatum5775]

So you are telling us to act like muslims in the west...?

[@SkidMan_Jurej]

15:03 you forget we're dealing with the hierarchical standard of "rules for thee, but not for me"

[@trevorp8124]

I've always loved the frodo / sam argument. Ya know what gay dudes routinely do when theres nobody else around and they're afraid they're about to die? Lament how they never married a woman. Then later go home, propose to that woman and have three kids.

[@JackSlenderman]

I'm glad you brought up the point regarding Blackness near the end, Dev. Black person not adhering to Black stereotypes describes my existence and I hate the idea that we have to fit into these stereotypical and often racist boxes otherwise we're not "Real" Black people, etc.

[@the11382]

There's something deeply regressive about attaching culture to race.

[@Armameteus]

@@the11382 Yet they'll call _you_ racist for not enforcing racist stereotypes.

[@malicekerendu3574]

I'm black, but grew up in a mostly white and muslim area. People look at me weird when they blast rap music and I'm not bopping to it.

[@Garrus1995]

I feel that this often comes back to “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” Making the assumption that people have to behave/think a certain way depending on their race, country of origin, religion, etc. A lot of Lefties see no issue with, say, Black men being in a gang because they think it’s natural for someone of that demographic to act that way. When you view people in such simplistic ways, you’re doing them a disservice and in fact passively contributing to the world being a worse place. A person is more than their skin color, sex, class or faith. It’s funny how the side that goes on an on about “tolerance” can’t quite seem to grasp that.

[@darkzeroprojects4245]

It's nothing more than keeping black people from ever living like everyone else . Also to fill the pockets of victimhood grifters.

[@frankburton3002]

It's so ironic that these people will defend grooming and dragshows for children, but the moment you lewd misa amane, rebecca from edgerunners, or any character they deem minor coded, they lose their shit.

[@SynthwavelLover]

Statistically speaking nothing bad happens at those shows (look up the stats for what actually kills the little ones AKA cars and g*ns), and the parents are there to supervise. You're dog whistling and conflating gr**ming with dragshows. I agree on the latter with it being over-reactive but let's be pro-freedom and have parents be responsible. Don't be big government. This kind of emotional thinking is very similar to what these so-called "progressives" are doing. (P.S. Hopefully censoring helps me avoid sh*dow-b*n.)

[@frankburton3002]

@@SynthwavelLover yeah, you have a good point

[@SynthwavelLover]

​@@frankburton3002 Appreciate you being open to the point I made. I'm used to arguing with emotional people (on the left and right) so I just had assumed, and prepared myself, for a debate like that. Props to you for being different though because IMO this is what we need to actually progress as a society. Less "Us vs Them" more "Strive for Truth".

[@frankburton3002]

@@SynthwavelLover thank you

[@seg162]

@@SynthwavelLover "Nothing bad happens at [dragshows for children]" I don't think you understand what a drag show is.

[@xemnadicaxolando2217]

I've heard the neo-pedophilia thing is just older singles boycotting younger women out of the market for men their age. Like, yeah, they couldn't find anyone willing to settle down and just found out younger women don't mind older men.

[@alejampi2]

As a former Californian with many multi-racial/cultural friends i consider as close as any family i've ever had, "code-switching" just seemed to make communication between friends who's first language isn't English was just WAY easier. I don't speak any language other than English but learning how THEY used English and the associated slang just made everything easier for both of us.

[@SammyWhiteley]

I'm actually very familiar with code switching. I was born in Britain but have lived most of my life in the USA, to the point where I barely remember England. I normally speak with an American accent and use words like "buddy" "awesome" and "awright" but when speaking to the bri'ish or my family my voice changes quite a lot, and I don't notice it. One time at work my mother called me and I answered, when I hung up my co-worker said my voice completely changed, jokingly calling me "posh cunt"

[@firebreathingcow]

The first 30 seconds are just Dev describing his body of work.

[@AJadedLizard]

How could you say something so controversial and yet so brave?

[@-haclong2366]

11:40 The average U.S. American female is 5'4, I'm from the Netherlands with the tallest people in the world. The average Dutch 19 year old woman is 5'7, so excluding 2 or 3 countries the average woman everywhere is "coded minor".

[@KenLinx]

This went from "people speak differently in different languages" to utter derangement real fast.

[@Doug-89]

When I did first semester communication it was called accommodation, where a speaker naturally and subconsciously adjusts the way they communicate to be closer to the person they are speaking with.

[@TheHalogen131]

I haven't watched the entire vide yet, but isn't this just changing how you speak to sound more casual or professional? You don't swear in your corporate workplace, and you don't adapt a boring and lifeless speech pattern like in a meeting room when out on a beer with your buddies. It seems pretty normal to me

[@joevile240]

​@@TheHalogen131It is normal. No different than how many languages have formal and informal speech. Hell, if I remember right, Japan has 3 or 4 different levels of formal speak depending on how high up the manager hierarchy someone is.

[@markzuckergecko621]

​@@TheHalogen131exactly, it's the same as putting on a profanity filter when you're around kids, or accidentally talking like an idiot if you're around teenagers.

[@BillyBasd]

This is it!

[@Armameteus]

@@markzuckergecko621 "accidentally"

[@RrraverCrow]

So do they want to enforce stereotypes or are they against them? Or is it whatever narrative that suits their cause at any given time?

[@eddardgreybeard]

It's called double think.

[@Armameteus]

It's only okay when _they_ do it, essentially.

[@Trollificusv2]

That last thing. You nailed it.

[@NagaTales]

As someone who has spent extended periods of time living in (not visiting) other cultures and speaking other languages, code-switching isn't just natural, it's necessary. It goes well beyond the old context of switching your mode of thought with language. It includes how you stand near people, the amount and type of hand movement, posture, tone of voice, enunciation, the kind of jokes you tell, the idioms you use, the order you speak in groups; You basically shift the entire paradigm of how you communicate, not because you're imitating or 'appropriating' another 'code', but because that's how you make yourself understood with the most clarity. Even switching contexts within the same language inside the same culture will force alterations to most if not all of these same considerations. As a Marine, I did not speak with my peers in rank the same way I did my NCOs. I didn't speak to my roommate, who outranked me, the same way I spoke to other people of his rank. Even the difference between speaking to an NCO I work directly with, and an NCO from another unit; or speaking to the same NCO in-uniform and out-of-uniform, required a shift in how I communicated. So yeah, if I'm taking the effort and doing others the courtesy to alter my communication style between sub-groups of one culture and language, then if I'm living in Jamaica, for example, for an extended period of time, you bet I'm going to go out of my way to 'code' my communication to better match with the people I'm working with. That will mean picking up their vocabulary, enunciation, posture, hand gestures, speaking cadence, and even elements of their accent, if not outright adopting their mannerisms wholesale, because that's going to make communication easier for them and for me. The alternative is looking like the stereotypical Arrogant American, constantly speaking in my generic non-regional American accent and expecting everyone else to understand the subtleties of my communication while not accommodating any of theirs. And I don't know about you, but.... that seems a lot more insensitive in my book.

[@329link]

Jesus I can't believe these people. The minor coding shit in particular is INSANE! My mom is less than 5ft tall, and has some childish behaviors (she does what she finds fun, "childish" or not), so my dad's a pedophile? Edit: another thing on that is how it affects the women. A girl can't enjoy the dynamic of being the small, cute girl who wants an older man to care for her? It's yet another example of "women can't think for themselves!"

[@terradraca]

15:15 It's one of the most steadfast rules especially online: When people accuse others of something and they're REALLY overly passionate about it, it's always a sign of projection.

[@lendrigangames]

Coding is simply a functional synonym for Dog Whistling, yet again rebranded as "wholesome when WE do it."

[@Xplora213]

The flip of minor coding is adult coding. They are trying to excuse pedophilia. Don’t think for a second that a bunch of PDFs are not ready to move this in a different direction.

[@andyz6306]

That fact that none of this was new to me, god. I'm a short adult female who's almost 30 so I am very much minor-coded to many of these people.

[@BlueArremer]

It's interesting to see this come up, because I'm seeing this "postminor" phenomenon in the fiction writing space as well. It's now considered "creepy" to write an age-gap romance, even if both parties are over 18 (I'm still getting feedback that one of my MCs is too young, and this is after aging him up from 20 to 23), due to a power imbalance or something.

[@mpo48]

Just ignore them, and maybe post their messages publicly so everyone else can laugh at them too

[@heinoustentacles5719]

age your character down to 16

[@adherentofladycolumbia725]

It's amazing when you learn either sides tactics, specifically in this case the left, the alteration of language & the connections to the ideas they are proposing become so much easier to pick up, & where it's heading.

[@Vercalos]

You want to know what's worse about these people who froth at the mouth over 'minor coded' characters? They'll actually report that sort of thing to the FBI, and when a victim of childhood exploitation comes forward in response to accusations of pedophilia, they'll actually say the victim deserved it. They care more about 'minor-coded' fictional characters than they do real life victims.

[@Aubreykun]

From what I found in digging, it's not about individual victims to them but a paranoia about rooting out "cryptopedos" (seen a few use this word, not that many) that are hiding in their circles. There's no real objective way to find anyone like that, so all the criteria they look for is circumstantial and based entirely on how "sus" it makes the person. And if someone actually harms a child or admits they have such desires, that's moreso regarded as just "hard proof" of a bad person being found out. It's essentially an irl application of the trolley problem combined with "send 9 innocent men to jail in order to catch the 1 criminal" corruption of justice. They would gladly have 1 person sacrificed (in some cases these are minors themselves doing this as activism...) to "keep an abuser from being able to make more victims" or something The reason it's common in fanart/fanfic circles is probably because of a misunderstanding of the "don't kinkshame" etiquette - where instead of it being a a golden rule situation, it was misinterpreted to where kinks became equivalent to sexuality/identity, rather than an interest, and so meant it was a protected characteristic. Then you had people who were _actual_ pedophiles self-rationalizing and not getting help, the awful "MAP" thing, and it became this paranoia about secret abusers hiding. This in turn leads people who have not harmed someone but are having mental crises to not go get help, as if it leaked out that they went to go do that they would lose all their social support and contacts, and then to push very hard against anything that would be regarded as "sus" to try to keep eyes off them.

[@MLGeoff]

I ventured past the warning, and my god this is quite possibly the most infuriating video to wrap my head around. We need to reopen the asylums, immediately

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

I support just plowing through the next protest over clouds being too white

[@Fullmetal.Alchemist]

Dont be nice to them. Being nice is what caused this. Be firm and kind, and if they try to force you to adhere to thier narrative. Then you kick them to the curb.

[@Armameteus]

Everybody gets one. If you mess up your chance, you're gonna have a hell of a time earning a new one. And if you mess up bad enough, I'm gonna make you eat your teeth because you absolutely deserve it.

[@blackosprey2219]

True. These are the kinds of people who turn into massive bullies and tyrants of their niche fandom spaces when left unchecked.

[@ghoulbuster1]

Normalize kicking marxists into the concrete

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

"Stfu sperg" I miss talking irl

[@anneoneal3865]

Or better yet, call their bluff. Anytime someone accuses you of being a while supremacist, a nazi, or a child molester, just tell them, "Either call the cops or f**k off."

[@ringoreddo308]

Also remember: there is a long, long list documenting anime haters either being actual predators and absolute degenerates. These people loosing their marbles because some anime girl is too cute, they are almost garanteed to have skeletons in their closet.

[@rezorus8832]

Boy have I pissed off some people telling them fictional characters aren't real. Really pissed them off when I found out they were a furry and started talking about cubs. Talk about hypocrisy, just look at their twitter likes.

[@thedarkmasterthedarkmaster]

It amazes me because these people will simultaneously deny this is happening while saying it's good that it's happening.

[@SkylineFTW97]

Doublethink.

[@Armameteus]

Their rationale (however flawed) is basically "It's not happening, but if it _were_ happening, it's a good thing and you shouldn't complain either way; if it's not happening, you get what you want, but if it _is_ happening, you should be supporting it." All the while, they're actively encouraging it and trying to make it happen, whilst denouncing those that would be against it as some form of -ist, -ism, or -phobe. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[@mattd5240]

​@@ArmameteusWhich is why these people should go to Canada and order some MAID service.

[@malicekerendu3574]

​@@mattd5240🌩️🌩️🌩️

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

@@SkylineFTW97 Ya know, that term has always annoyed me to a certain extent, because I'm one of those people who can have contrary viewpoints in my head at the same time and ponder them both from multiple perspectives. The best quote I found on it was talking about Torah Interpretation, and said "Two Jews, Three Opinions." That describes me perfectly, LOL. I can see things from many perspectives (which is a gift, IMO) and still have my own opinions, which are often a mix of the best of both sides. (Because I tend to be a thinker, not an ideologue.)

[@zombiegamer123]

The thing with the minor coding is a hard one for me. There is a woman who had some reality show because she has some condition that makes her look like an actual child even though she’s at least late 20’s. She has a normal man as a boyfriend and it’s like she deserves love like anyone but like come on man her BF is mega sus.

[@ivansmirnov7342]

If it’s the one who I’m thinking then the only “childlike” feature she has is her height. You can tell she’s an adult when you look at her up close. So nothing sus really. Edit: and her voice is kinda weird. It’s high pitched but there’s an element to it that makes it sound... I dunno how to describe it even.

[@cookiecreep9204]

And thus, she can't date anyone who is ever online, because no matter who would she date, he would be lynched for it...

[@gavinr4214]

To be fair he did come across as rather sus

[@SaVanityVan]

I mean that's different, there are rare medical conditions that cause a person to never physically mature and thus look like a child, and it will always be a grey area. But that's not what people mean when they say minor coded, they literally just mean someone (usually a woman) who is short and/or petite, or even just thin and not curvaceous. Children are small, so if you are attracted to someone on the shorter side it's sus, prepubescent girls don't have chests, so being attracted to women with flat chests is sus, etc. Some people say even liking shaved pubic areas makes you a pedo since 'only kids don't have hair down there'.

[@RyuuRider]

What makes pedos evil are their manipulation of individuals who lack the mental development and life experience of a typical adult (and the devastating effects of it on the youth). Someone who looks like a child despite being at their peak of maturity is entirely out of their control; they are still capable of self-reliance and choosing for themselves as an adult, so there's not much to feel sus about. It would be quite different if that condition included childlike mental development. Understanding the reason for the taboo helps in these situations.

[@MahDryBread]

Ahh yes. Minors and...that thing that's after being a minor. What do you call it when you're not a minor anymore again? That's right, post-minors! I don't know what "This fandom" the person was referencing to, but I want to stay far away

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Absolutely based and I love your videos

[@Good100]

It's kinda funny coming across the portion about age gaps after I just asked out my friend's sister last night, who happens to be 18 while I am 28. I never knew her before she was 18, and I am not specifically attracted to her because she's 18 or because our ages are so far apart, but I have been concerned that weirdos with malicious imaginations would accuse me of being a pedo or a cradle robber just because I am dating a fully grown woman who happens to be younger than me by several years.

[@MrGenedancingmachine]

We always shake our heads and laugh at these concepts....then three years later, they're being repeated in the halls of Congress.

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

Pendulum swings

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

Yep. And I am 100% scared where this is going... I just hope people wake up in time!

[@ninjahedgehog5]

OK, so " minor coded" is just a boring' cringe prog way if saying "legal loli" Also can we talk about twitter lefties constantly worried about pedophilia towards fictional characters but completely hand wave literal child trafficking as Qanon conspiracy?

[@kielbasamage]

Don’t forget they hunt down and fight people for ending up with that dragon from dragon maid like they’re Frank Castle, but they’ll watch Cuties in VR and goon in a voice chat with fifteen people doing the same thing.

[@internetzenmaster8952]

"legal loli" Back in my day I believe we called that 'jailbait'. Christ I feel old.

[@ninjahedgehog5]

@internetzenmaster8952 weebification is here for you old man XD'

[@MaxiemumKarnage]

​@@ninjahedgehog53 nukes when

[@kateshiningdeer3334]

@@internetzenmaster8952 LOL, I think for me, "jailbait" was always people of uncertain age - Are they legal, or are they not? And when they were willing to lie to you about it, it was ALWAYS dodgy. That's why actual age-gap laws exist in some states. Because 18-21 is only a 3-year gap, but also a jail term if things go wrong! "Legal Loli", as I understand it, is people who are adults (again, 18 to 21, depending on the state) dressing deliberately younger to attract people who like younger people. Seems like there was a case where an older woman (I think maybe like 25?) was making videos where she looked 16-17, and there was some serious concern if her videos counted as actual child pornography, because that was certainly the intent.

[@intboom]

Death of the Author was always intended to be the thin end of the wedge: it was never a simple observation.

[@SubtleStair]

Or maybe the tip of the spear.

[@danielsurvivor1372]

12:55 Modern woke-coded characters: 🤢🤮 McDonald's cashier: 🥰😍

[@XartiXV]

This is one of the reasons why some are saying "Shipping is a mistake" and don't exactly like shippers in a fandom. I mean "child coded".

[@DjDeadpig]

Pin or Uber gay

[@ExteriorsDoneRight]

Gay or Uber pin

[@randomuser5443]

Pin gay or uber

[@KyriosHeptagrammaton]

Nice try Dev, the pin doesn't change anything

[@bertellijustin6376]

Unpin or Unter Gay

[@SirDankington]

Pin of Gay Uber