I'm watching an argument that the expanding brain meme is "ableist" and should be removed from discourse.

Y'all, I'm definitely taking the day off from my allies.

@zebratron2084 a;reijs;bims;erjerg I was just having a conversation with @Jssra​ yesterday about the harm done by overpatrolling social justice spaces. this... is definitely part of that problem. :|

@green @zebratron2084 Anything like this comes with risk of a witch hunt if you overcorrect vs. the mainstream. It's worth trying to thread the needle, but oy, the facepalms when it goes wrong.

@Jssra tbh (btw @zebratron2084 lemme know if you want out of these thread-mentions) it reminds me a lot of the Tumblr "More Woke Than Thou" culture, in which points are earned by the amount of TURRIBLE INJUSTICES that you can ferret out amongst your peers--i.e., witchhunts for sport and social profit. :|

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@Jssra @zebratron2084 yeah, I tried Tumblr and then got my first taste of "social mob justice" and noped the fuck out of there.

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