This is what I'm going to start calling those "Oh, god, did you have to go and feminism?!" moments. You know the kind I mean. Those moments where everyone's having a good time, joking around, laughing, and then someone says/does something incredibly sexist/racist/ableist/classist/cissexist/heterosexist/all of the above. If you're anything like me, what comes after that bad thing that was said or done is, "Um, no." A moment of quiet. And then the rant comes where you have to show them exactly why what they said or did was wrong.
I just had one of those on facebook, of all silly places. A friend--actually, a friend of a friend--said that they like to use offensive language because it's an "extremely effective and under appreciated method of undermining the ignorant, racist use of those same terms."
Of course, I couldn't control myself. I was good, though! I didn't TYPE IN ALL CAPS, or call them a privileged sack of crap, or even act meanly. I just replied "False," and left the link to this article on hipster racism. You should go read it, but it basically explains that "hipster racism," or the jocular use of racist language, is bad because it perpetuates racism--duh.
Okay, so maybe it was a passive aggressive move, but whatever--it's my bookface.
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