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Tone police (have you tried calming down?) (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 days ago by Bad@jlai.lu to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[green is running, screaming, their head is on fire] FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK HELP ME!!! I AM ON FIRE HELP!!! AAAAAAAAAAH IT BURNS

[orange lookis pissed] Could you please scream a bit less? It's getting on my nerves

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[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the recent "debates" about not dehumanizing Nazis...

No, you fucking losers, Nazi's do not deserve respect!

If someone's aim is to FUCKING KILL YOU, the last thing I want to hear from self-rightous buffoons is, "but you might hurt their feelings!"

Claiming it's "bad" to call bad things bad because it biases others against that thing... is also fucking dumb tone policing. It's GOOD when bad things have "bad" associated with them!! It's GOOD to call the people that push for bad things also bad... because they ARE bad people.

[–] bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why must we treat them with the level of respect that they would never ever bestow upon others?

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago

Exactly.

It's like the Golden Rule version of the Paradox of Tolerance. If someone would demonstrably never extend you the courtesy, then you should have no obligation to extend said courtesy first.

Only a fool attempts to welcome an invading army in.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 6 points 1 day ago

The trick arises from there being more than two people involved. In life, we have 10000 people on fire, another 10000 claiming to be on fire and also demanding help, another 10000 wearing flame-colored wigs claiming to speak for the fire-headed and demanding power, another 10000 trying to sell water buckets, another 10000 trying to sell ethanol buckets, another 10000 selling just buckets you're supposed to fill yourself, another 10000 trying to sell pictures of the burning ones, another 10000 trying to use those pictures to say its their own fault for putting fire on their head, another 10000 trying to tell people water is too precious to be 'wasted' on helping people, another 10000 trying to say it's all orange's fault so orange has to be given the power to 'help' green, another 10000 saying the fire-headed should be shot as a danger to the children, another 10000 who are sick of all the noise and would gladly flood the atmosphere with vaporized kerosene if it would just mean an end to the whole thing, and all those same number again pushing for the exact opposites.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 8 points 2 days ago

person on the right is a 911 dispatcher