Posted by exodus on May 07, 2025 at 16:19:09 EST in reply to When someone can explain to me in an actual conversation why “collectard” turns them off I’ll be happy no matter how the conversation turns out. Until then everyone just ignores me and lets me do what I want because I’m not hurting anybody. That old suicide pact… People who can’t take any negative feedback whatsoever are also terrible at giving it. They think this is because they are “nice”, and I’m not saying they aren’t nice, but they are also getting stupider every day. A person who never reads isn’t literate. Someone who knows how to play basketball, technically, because they did it at some point but never practices sucks as basketball. Pretending that logic can exist only with “yes” answers, removed of all the negative feelings associated with “no” is suicidal idiocy. Only humans are smart enough to be this dumb. No animal works this way. A cat or a carp knows negative and positive feedback are equally critical. Giving nuclear launch codes to an egomaniac idiot and simply believing nothing bad will happen is not good. Believing EV SUVs are going to remove all our CO2 emissions sans any engineering realism is just as stupid. The paths forward are hard enough to see as it is without closing our eyes and making it all so much worse. Overall you and I can argue but we’re not stupid and we have very similar value systems in the grand scheme of things. The only real difference is I’m too scared to be self employed but not so scared I end every sentence with an upward inflection. We value humans more then money, etc, we want to do what’s right more then we want to be right about something…I think…but what hope is there of explaining to someone what a fascist salute looks like if you can’t help me move on from the term “collectard” because conversation is scary? It’s basically impossible to hurt my feelings. Go ahead. Explain yourself. It’s OK. Stating your business with confidence doesn’t mean you’re a horrible person unless your confidence is unearned. (n/t) from SignOfZeta.
it's incredibly straightforward. "collectard" is a portmanteu of collector and "retard" which is a derogatory term toward a whole swath of people who are non-neurotypical or have developmental disabilities. Since it's based on a term that's specifically used as a slur toward a marginalized group of people you shouldn't use it unless you want to align yourself with people who enjoy punching down. I don't know why you wrote so much stuff about this when the explanation was pretty obvious.
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