ofc you get this bullshit all day every day - but jesus, you chose to when making this blog. it's not as if polite words take up too much time? in fact it takes way more time to put in all the swear words like you do. and don't tell me the tone argument is bullshit - it's simple fucking psychology. probably you should think about your aims with this blog - whether you actually want to make thin people aware of their privilege and consequently change something or just leave a trail of anger.

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Actually, there are all kinds of reasons why strong language can be HELPFUL in getting the point across. There are a lot of people who will take from polite language that the matter under discussion is academic, that it does not affect people’s lives, so it’s fine to discuss it in the abstract. Strong language and anger bring home to them that it DOES impact some people’s lives, and that those people are upset about it.

I once converted a firm pro-lifer to a pro-choice position by shouting and cursing at him.

Furthermore, being polite to those who are mean to you only tells them that they can get away with being mean to you, where being nasty back tells them they’ve hit the limit of what you’ll put up with.

And finally, the tone argument is completely invalid because it is entirely an excuse to ignore the words of the oppressed. What the privileged really don’t want to hear is that they’re wrong. It doesn’t matter how nicely we tell them they’re wrong, they will complain that we are not nice enough.

There are plenty of people out there doing the soft approach. They’re effect for the people that’s good for. Fine. They don’t need to change their tune.

But this is what we do here, and we do it for good reasons, and it works.

And you are a derailing tone troll and can fuck off. Your derailing is not welcome here, and so your words are not welcome here.

-MG

And that, my fats, is the last bit of tone trolling shit I will allow for the moment.