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there's a difference between nigger, which is an artifact of systemic racism, and poking fun at identity politics using the weapons of identity politicians: sentinel words. That is, words that seek to minimize the discomfort of hypocrisy by signalling an end to conversation. And in this very way social doctrines limit the investigation of ugly realities. †
The difference is that "niggers" really exist; Blacks are America's niggers, Palestinians are Israel's niggers, etc. Good gays, bad gays, otoh, dont exist (hardly, phenomenologically, socially and historically speaking) beyond their qualification as good or bad people. Unless -- and this is the point, I think -- you're secretly, if only to your embarrassed self, homophobic, in which case calling you a fag is merely a mischievous way to incite honest introspection.
Hence kuronazis are fags because they arent as good as the fags they pretend are as good kurobots for all the wrong, empty reasons. No, they're stuttering nazis who hate fags, women, peace and the challenge of progress.
It's all about confrontation. Confrontation is neither good nor bad but derives its usefulness from an evaluation of the outcome it seeks to provoke. I wish to provoke kuro5hin's collective self-examination. Is that so wrong?
† It happens because the society in "social doctrines" is inherently reactionary by virtue of its very existence; society wouldnt be possible if it didnt preserve itself, which is why Americans differ fundamentally, at an inextricable ideological level, from Russians, for example.
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The difference between trolling and life is life doesnt have to make sense.
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