4/8/2023 0 Comments Slate star scratchpad![]() ![]() Metal and rap both seemed shockingly offensive in their day now that they’re too familiar to accomplish that there has to be SOMETHING similarly shocking to modern sensibilities as, say, liking a musician who seriously appears to worship Satan and bite the heads off live chickens. But if we collectively decided to ignore or laugh at “offensive” stuff rather than regularly “calling it out” and starting a Two Minutes Hate in response, wouldn’t it fade away? Sinai.They said that here was this incredibly precious divine artifact, which God had written 974 generations before the creation of the world (what who was having these generations), and humans were unworthy of it. If you form a community around the idea that certain specific words or images are scary and have great power over people eventually SOMEBODY will find spreading those exact words and images attractive. According to the Talmud, the angels objected to God’s decision to give Moses the Torah on Mt. What’s the evidence that it “became mostly for real”? I’m sure we’re seeing different parts of the elephant but another explanation might be that the SJ folk accidentally created (at least the appearance of) the specific demons they fear in much the same way that serious Christians some decades back accidentally created “Satanism” and heavy metal music. If this is true, it has important implications for edginess and irony in general. And then at some point in the past year or two it became mostly for real. People on 4chan would use the n-word and post those comics about super-stereotypical Jews and put swastika characters in their name, but only because “FUCK THE POLICE” was no longer sufficiently edgy and annoying. ![]() My impression is that Weird Internet Troll Racism used to be mostly joking. ![]()
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