“Why yes, my overpriced fake leather nostolgiabait shoes that have nothing in it, dont come in wide, and gives people pla tar fasciitis is muxh better than the other overpriced fake leather hipsterbait shoe!!!”

And then kids will literally screech in the damn store if they dont get their shitty nike shoe, becayse its about the NAME of the BRAND!!!

FUCK OFF SNEAKERHEADS YOU ALL SUCK!!!

          • raven [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            Really, I wouldn’t have dreamed I would see someone getting dogpiled for this take, which would have been uncontroversial here 2 months ago. Federation has been a disaster for hexbear culture yea

              • raven [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                3·
                10 months ago

                I’m a three year user here and I’m definitely not confused. The incidence of ableist language has gone up significantly since federation.

                The comments defending the ableist term have since been removed. I don’t know what the significance of the op being from lemmygrad is supposed to be.

                  • raven [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    41·
                    10 months ago

                    For the purpose of talking past you:
                    There’s thoughtlessly using a minor ableist term, and then there’s doubling down and defending it’s use when asked not to.

                    Having an ableist mindset is not only harmful to your comrades but also harmful to our movement itself.

                    An ableist mindset:

                    • Takes the blame off of the real problem, being a chud’s reactionary immature, uninformed mindset, and clouds your ability to react to it in the most useful way.
                    • Is not solidarity.
                    • Encourages calipers shit.

                    You see chuds saying shit like:

                    spoiler

                    Play stupid games win stupid prizes

                    When people get conned, which assuming they are in fact less abled, implies that that makes it okay to steal from them, as if they don’t have an equal need to eat and have shelter. That’s what this is playing in to.

                    You can insult people without being reactionary. If you find that difficult it is your own skill issue not “tone policing”