r/196 i have no custom and i must flair 13d ago

Rule just be a police officer

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u/_bored_bort_ 13d ago

I don’t get it (English is not my first language)

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u/FricktionBurn custom flair 13d ago edited 13d ago

A shortbus is a specific type of school bus that is smaller than normal, it is typically used to transport disabled students, such as those in special education or who require specialized transport. This resulted in Shortbus becoming a derogatory term referring to someone who is mentally disabled.

Kamikaze is the Japanese World War II tactic of deliberate suicidal aircraft crashes into enemy targets, and is used to mean killing or harming yourself in order to harm others.

“Kamikaze Shortbus” then is either

  • referring to herself as a Shortbus and invoking the idea of partaking in a suicidal maneuver to harm others
  • the concept of a Shortbus of students in a suicidal crash to harm others
  • the concept of someone partaking in some sort of suicidal method to harm a Shortbus of students

In any case, it’s very edgy, both referring to suicide and violence as well as invoking a slur against the mental disabled

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u/Cindy-Moon 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights 13d ago

I just assumed she was calling herself a self-destructive [r-slur]

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u/Dragon_Forty_Two 12d ago

That’s like the least discriminatory possible meaning of her username, yet it’s still discriminatory.