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As it should be in the Fediverse (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I mean, still. I associate them with the games more than anything. And that's definetily not the kind of look i'd want out of a community that originated specifically because they DIDN'T want to just follow the herd and use what's popular regardless of how shitty it gets.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Well maybe you should make your own community without that rule and it's NSFW.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

So embrace it ironically then ;)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk, crusading against common myths is something that's pretty hot these days. Stuff like:

Christopher Columbus didn't actually discover America, and he was actually kind of an asshat
Bell didn't invent the telephone, he was simply the first to patent and subsequently litigate
"Frankenstein" is the name of the scientist, not the monster
Many modern tropes about Christian Hell stem from a 17th century political satire novel

Crusading for truth in easily verifiable matters feels very on-brand for the kind of people who use Lemmy. In that light, reclaiming a negative term that's only negative because of a false premise to describe ourselves doesn't sound so bad. At worst, we become a little insufferable as we have to introduce the term with a "well, ackshually", which a lot of us would probably do anyway.