aaa stress
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acquaintance of ours messaged us on discord and their status message is the fascist frog, they say they want to not let the fascists have it (and i believe them, they're super leftist) but it still sets off the fight-or-flight response really really strongly for us to the point that we had to take our anti-anxiety prn, and we really try to avoid having to do that
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it just feels like if people are made this profoundly uncomfortable by the mere sight of a thing it would be a good idea to not have the thing in a status message that cannot be hidden
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i don't want to push our beliefs on people or say that people should always try to please us because that's not true but like
who is in the wrong here? or is anyone?
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sorry this should probably have been CW'd
there was a lot of stress and not thinking straight
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right-wing memes, our current-but-not-fully-solidified opinions
@Felthry The fascist frog honestly isn't merely an anti-leftist symbol? It's explicitly associated with the extremely racist, ableist, transmisic, misogynistic, etc. etc. etc. alt-right
Also? Reclaiming is primarily about using a symbol that means /you/ to mean something positive (because you are worth celebrating).
I don't like it. I think it's a bad idea. (I also have no affection for Pepe, so, caveat, but still.)
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