Heeey, I get it can be super frustrating and even angering to have completely opposite opinions in a fandom, and Im not trying to start an argument about it. But it is deeply, DEEPLY fucked up to call a group of people degenerates, especially over fandom nonsense. Jerks, buttheads, stubborn purists, thats whatever. But degenerate? Immoral, impure deviant to the point of being subhuman? A favorite term of the Nazis and popular descriptor of anyone deemed unacceptable by the current rising fascists in our time? Over...not seeing a video game character the same way you do?
Cmon.
interesting how you jump to the worst possible conclusion of my statement instead of just scrolling and moving on. shame on you
that being said, I did change the wording of the original post they mentioned to say "idiots." Mostly because I'm not going to stoop to their level and be petty about a very real issue. Using degenerates may not have been the right term, but claiming that you're "not about to start an argument" and then calling me a NAZI is fucking insane. get a goddamn grip, it's pixels.
Fuck it, you know what, coming off anon.
I did not call you a nazi. Nowhere in that ask did I say that you are an evil awful nazi for using the word degenerate. I said that the word degenerate is a fascist word that nazis love, and that you shouldnt use it to refer to people who have a different fandom opinion than you.
If you had said "the jerks/assholes", I would have kept scrolling. I have no interest in fandom arguments, because Sephiroth is fake and it doesnt matter. I truly dont care what anyones Sephiroth opinion is. But you casually slung around a very fucked up word that was used to genocide millions of people, and is still used today to describe groups of people that modern fascists want to genocide, so I sent you an ask telling you that its a nazi word in case you didnt know or didnt consider that before posting. I NEVER called YOU a nazi. I don't think youre a nazi. Thats why I didnt just tell you to go fuck yourself, because I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe you didnt get what you said.
I told you to please not use a nazi word because nazis use it and you responded with "Shame on you! How dare you call me a nazi! Its just pixels get over it!" When YOU used the nazi word! If I made a post saying "Anyone who like kingdom hearts 4 is a r----d lmao (i dont actually think that, wouldnt say that, and also know nothing about KH)", and you sent me an anon saying "hey thats an ableist slur and has been used to harm people, dont call people that especially over a video game", would I be appropriate to say "Shame on you for calling me ableist. It's just pixels, focus on real issues"? Of course not. The appropriate response is to just change the word and not use it again, because its a fucked up thing to say.
And Im glad you changed it, which is literally all I wanted. I wanted you to change out the nazi word and not use it again, that was it. Please don't call people degenerates.
But jesus! Thats all I said! I just said "Cmon, thats a nazi word, dont use that." Because it is actually a very real issue the kinds of words you use! Someone fucking sieg heil'd during the US president's inauguration this year, people who look like me are being thrown in concentration camps, "degenerate" topics are being erased and "degenerate" people are being targetted, including me and a lot of friends that I deeply care about. Sorry if my message sounded mean? I wasnt trying to be nasty, but I dont sugar coat things, my writing tone is very blunt
