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I'm definitely not a leftist but I had a brother until about 2.5 years ago. He was gay. Pretend you're me and you have to sit there and listen to people talk shit about your dead brother who they never even knew. He was a mechanic. He was the best mechanic in the shop and he changed the morale of that shop during his tenure there. He even helped the wife of a fellow mechanic to leave her home and get over her agoraphobia.

But yeah...it's totally appropriate to make jokes at the expense of everyone within a group, especially when they didn't choose to be a part of that group...a fact I can verify having grown up with him, watching him grow. The flamboyant tendencies were there just under the surface going back to preschool age.

You're free to speak however you like, but maybe you should consider using language that is specific and helpful rather than vague and hurtful to people you don't know whose perspectives you've not considered?

Sovereign Being 2y ago

Can’t joke about randomly protected classes of people. Topic has been deemed off limits because of someone’s feelings.

“Making fun of disabled people, is retarded.”

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RedTailHawk 2y ago

With a name like Sovereign Bull though I would imagine that libertarian values would be something that meshes with you. Libertarian values would include treating people as individuals, not as members of a group. Perhaps you don't consider yourself libertarian though, and that would make a lot of sense as to why you would be willing to paint an entire population of diverse individuals with a broad brush.

Sovereign Being 2y ago

Equal treatment means that I don’t believe any people should be exempt from being joked about, regardless of who they are or what group they choose to associate with. I’m libertarian in that I don’t think speech should be policed based on the feelings of an individual or a group.