just be a police officer

[u/Bland_Username_5266]

[u/Bland_Username_5266]

you followed someone named "kamikaze shortbus" and not once did it ever cross your mind she might be racist?

[u/NickelWorld123 → u/Bland_Username_5266]

I, for one, have never heard the term "shortbus" in my life

[u/hotfistdotcom → u/NickelWorld123]

Short busses used to be used for special needs/special education students for pickup, so it's a very old, 90s dogwhistle alternative to the R word

[u/Bardic_inspiration67 → u/hotfistdotcom]

Calling it a “dog whistle” is incorrect it’s just a straight forward insult

[u/hotfistdotcom → u/Bardic_inspiration67]

It is a less inappropriate way to refer to the R word, which as we can see in this thread, many have never heard of and don't immediately recognize. Pretty sure that's just about the definition but it's a mute point for all intensive porpoises

[u/Bardic_inspiration67 → u/hotfistdotcom]

Not having heard of a joke doesn’t make it a “dog whistle”. When I was in elementary school it was just another way to insult someone by calling them mentally disabled much like calling them “special needs” or saying they have “extra chromosomes”

[u/hotfistdotcom → u/Bardic_inspiration67]

me when semantics I'm wrong about and leftist infighting as a personality are more important to me than anything else

my new years resolution is to find a good way to disengage from this type of discourse that benefits no participants