maybe basing our sociopolitical movement largely on our personal trauma, especially that reflexively felt merely by first glance at a particular word or phrase, is not the most sophisticated or reliable path to a just society because of, you know, the whole HUMAN SUBCONSCIOUS IS A BIG HOT REACTIVE MESS thing

i'm not saying slurs and such don't matter—i'm must saying maybe the value of a satire that subverts and recontextualizes them outweighs the tenth of a second of pain caused by something that makes you feel bad, and maybe just maybe looking past the bad surface association to the actual context is a skill that grownups, even those who have been hurt in the past, should have, because not everything that looks hostile really is. and while trauma should absolutely be accommodated, and anyone who has to GET THE FUCK AWAY from a bad stimulus should never ever be shamed for it, it is literally not possible to pad society so thoroughly that nobody will ever be exposed to anything that ever reminds them of something upsetting, unless you really truly want and need to give our entire culture the texture and flavor of weak lukewarm tea.

so yeah, if you didn't like the attack helicopter story, you should absolutely criticize the fuck out of it, because that's how culture improves itself, but if you scream for it to be removed from the cultural stream without even getting past the GODDAMN TITLE and the possibility that it is ironic, i just can't accommodate your needs anymore, because we have a lot of work left to do on this culture's semiotics, and nobody ever promised you it wouldn't get messy

@mmsword Not just critiquing it, but comparing it to, direct quote, "GETTING KNIFED IN THE FACE."

https://twitter.com/puck1008/status/1217216637830455302

I just fucking can't break bread with these people anymore.