Terrible people celebrate Sessions confirmation with racism, gloating, more racism

But they’re totally not racist, guys!

At least we get to enjoy the Trumpgrets when Sessions proceeds not to lock Clinton up. (Hey, if they can have Schadenfreude, so can I…)

@Ooglyboggles

At least for Wisconsin, it was due to the massive voter suppression efforts. It’s always been a problem – “vote Wednesday!” flyers and having to show IDs – but the gerrymandering is horrible. They don’t want the “wrong” people to vote.

Hang on, what? His name actually is Jefferson Beauregarde Sessions? I thought people were mocking him when they said that.

Edit:
What WWTH said.

@Zatar:

Given the obvious hatred of everything ‘other’ I guess they’re idolising.
Imagining the day they get to kill a bunch of people for no good reason.
It’s definitely not ‘the terrorists’ that scare me. It’s these guys. The glee they express is… *shudder*
And they’ve got the WH.

@WWTH:

*goes to read up on history*
It was never my best class.

@Ru: Oh nooooo! I am going to have to choose something to put with my nym, I think!

Also, great choice in nyms haha. <3

Oh and also… I’m wondering if I want to torrent The Red Pill, just to see. I don’t want to give her any money, but I’m also trying really hard to pay for my media…

Ugh.

When people on the internet (outside of present company and a few other actual-nice-people-groups) talk about autism or autistic people, they’re using it as a synonym for “Upset about something” or “angry” while also disparaging the thing that person’s angry about. It’s more channer garbage. ‘Cause if you express care for anything ever, it’s just nothing but an indication that you’re a screaming whiny crybaby.

But toxic masculinity’s just a feminist slur, guyse. Doesn’t actually exist.

I have seen signs that she is secretly a feminist who will totally change her views and cause major headaches for the Trump administration.

Yeah, no.

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The woman is a walking disaster.

They have little or no idea how to describe what they dislike or what is wrong with it.

If I can babble a bit on that – thanks @Brony for saying it, ’cause I think that’s really the core of the problem we’re dealing with.

When I was a wee freja, barely capable of scilding at all, I had a guy as a roommate. We watched The Matrix at home with friends, and I really liked it. Afterwards, I started babbling about all of the cool biblical allegory and the metaphors of self-actualization that the movie was full of,and how well it portrayed the Hero’s Journey, because wow did it ever have a lot of that. (Also I to this day refuse to acknowledge that it is a trilogy.)

He stopped me and replied, loudly and angrily, that I was full of shit, and that it was about cool camera tricks and gunfights and robots and stuff. That there was no meaning to the fact that the ship was named Nebuchadnezzar, that Neo died and came back to life, claimed victory, then ascended to heaven. He was angry about the suggestion that there might be a meaning to the movie, that there might be themes and morals hidden within it that are worthy of discussion.

That’s what we’re facing. It isn’t that they want to troll us or make us angry, it’s that they have a deep rooted need to believe that things do not have deeper meanings. That’s just a hunch, really, but I think that this lurks beneath their need to troll and hurt – it’s a defense mechanism.

I have no idea why they would want to avoid deeper meanings of things – I have some hunches on that too but I don’t want to say them, ’cause I’m interested in what everyone else thinks on this. Why on Ymir’s green earth would they so desperately struggle against the thought that things have meanings?

@Scild

I bet it blew his puny little dudebro mind when he found out that the whole series (ptth =P) is mostly an allegory for the Wachowskis’ internal struggles as trans women.

When I see someone use autism as an insult, I usually violently berate them until they feel sorry enough to apologize. Most people who do this are, ironically, online white cishets.

Interestingly, I encountered exactly the same sort of thing amongst Stellaris players. They were happy to discuss trivial and obscure points of lore about Star Wars and Warhammer 40,000 for hours; and yet got extremely annoyed when I tried to discuss the cultural significance of it. I’m privileged enough – especially in that circle – that I never got directly attacked for asking such questions, but I definitely lost prestige as a result.

I have a hypothesis as to why it is, but I’d love to hear from people who know more.

(Unlike Scildfreja, I’ll share my hypothesis. It’s that our society encourages people – especially young white men – to seek self-abnegation in escapist media. When we analyse such media, we remind them that it exists within the context of the wider society that they’re trying to escape from, and we therefore ruin their self-abnegation. Because this self-abnegation is very important to them, the response is very visceral and immediate.)

I’m with Jesalin.

The impulse of how they react may manifest differently in young male populations than others. Certain people are just entirely resistant to any meaning below the most obvious surface of things. I see it plenty with older people too.

I have no idea why they would want to avoid deeper meanings of things – I have some hunches on that too but I don’t want to say them, ’cause I’m interested in what everyone else thinks on this. Why on Ymir’s green earth would they so desperately struggle against the thought that things have meanings?

I find this really interesting, because I’ve always had a great deal of trouble figuring out themes and subtext, and at times it’s made me feel insecure, but at no point have I ever felt the need to argue against the idea of theme or subtext. Like, when people bring it up, I think “Oh that’s neat, I wish I could have figured that out on my own!”

Perhaps they are having similar feelings, but different outward reactions? They couldn’t see it for themselves, and instead of confronting that inability, they reject all other interpretations outright?

Another possibility that comes to mind is that they are offended that someone could enjoy a thing in a different way than them. They see it as a threat to their ability to enjoy the movie completely. Sort of a zero-sum view of media experience? “If there’s subtext, and I don’t like the movie because of it, then I’m not fully appreciating the movie, which is unacceptable, thus there is no subtext.”