Jan_Aage_Fjortoft
Well-known member
It's not racist but it's not a term that I'd use.
It's a term that is basically used to be offensive towards a group of people. I find it strange that people use it. Often those people think they have better views and are more progressive. Yet here they are using a term designed to upset those with oppossing views. Try to talk to people and educate them. If that doesn't work then just ignore them. No need to be insulting to others. Or really you're not much better than they are. You're a d*ck as well. Just in a different way and to a different group of people.
Like what are you trying to achieve? Do you think someone is going to change their views by you insulting them? Or are you better off trying to show how they might be wrong?
It's terms and behaviour like that which was the real reason that the Remain campaign failed. Instead of showing people why their beliefs were wrong, the default position was to call them racist or stupid etc. That was never going to change people's views. Changing the world to be a better place requires education not insults. Ignorance can be overcome. Insulting people just entrenches their position and makes them defensive.
It's a term that is basically used to be offensive towards a group of people. I find it strange that people use it. Often those people think they have better views and are more progressive. Yet here they are using a term designed to upset those with oppossing views. Try to talk to people and educate them. If that doesn't work then just ignore them. No need to be insulting to others. Or really you're not much better than they are. You're a d*ck as well. Just in a different way and to a different group of people.
Like what are you trying to achieve? Do you think someone is going to change their views by you insulting them? Or are you better off trying to show how they might be wrong?
It's terms and behaviour like that which was the real reason that the Remain campaign failed. Instead of showing people why their beliefs were wrong, the default position was to call them racist or stupid etc. That was never going to change people's views. Changing the world to be a better place requires education not insults. Ignorance can be overcome. Insulting people just entrenches their position and makes them defensive.
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