Problem?
Seems as good a way as any to say conflicting feelings can go suck a dick when they need to reconcile with these facts over here.
Dumb to get peeved over that.
“Facts over feelings” has been used almost exclusively by conservative “influencers” for the last decade (despite them not really caring about facts, mind you). It’s a dog whistle at this point for being a massive dickwad.
Letting the other camp “own” signs like fake news, 👌🏼, or facts over feelings is basically cooperating with them & validating whatever they decide those signs mean for the rest of us.
Yet the literal meaning of those words (& signs) can serve anyone.
Language can be creative, no?
Instead of ceding to them like a bunch of feeble losers (and implying we only argue with feelings), maybe we should reappropriate what was given, stir confusion, apply some creativity to make those signs serve us against the “dickwads” we oppose?
That purity mentality of recoiling from anything “tainted” by those we oppose isn’t useful.
It’s better to restore, redeem, create.
Problem? Seems as good a way as any to say conflicting feelings can go suck a dick when they need to reconcile with these facts over here. Dumb to get peeved over that.
“Facts over feelings” has been used almost exclusively by conservative “influencers” for the last decade (despite them not really caring about facts, mind you). It’s a dog whistle at this point for being a massive dickwad.
Maybe unlearn that or learn to throw it back?
Letting the other camp “own” signs like fake news, 👌🏼, or facts over feelings is basically cooperating with them & validating whatever they decide those signs mean for the rest of us. Yet the literal meaning of those words (& signs) can serve anyone. Language can be creative, no?
Instead of ceding to them like a bunch of feeble losers (and implying we only argue with feelings), maybe we should reappropriate what was given, stir confusion, apply some creativity to make those signs serve us against the “dickwads” we oppose?
That purity mentality of recoiling from anything “tainted” by those we oppose isn’t useful. It’s better to restore, redeem, create.