Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

(I don't know if this is really a conservative opinion because I think public college tuition should be a third of what it is now and that state government support should make up most of the difference)

(It's definitely uncool though)

You’re right, free Universities are where it’s at.

i saw Ted Cruz called a Karen online because of his need to criticize the 1619 Project.

I feel like I missed something there, Andrew Sullivan was throwing a shit fit about it, but I couldn't really understand

some people think america is good but actually, it is bad

"don't call attention to the genocidal ravages of colonialism and chattel slavery! america's good"

hmm, why would a right-wing piece of shit not like writing regarding the legacy of slavery

Any argument against the 1619 Project should be met with fire.

“Karen” was a term created *specifically by Black women* to talk about white women’s interpersonal + state violence against us and our communities: calling the police on us for getting coffee, threatening to have us fired, talking down to us at work (where we’re now “essential”).

— alicia sanchez gill. (@aliciasanchez) April 5, 2020

Per Luvvie Ajayi, the progression is Becky > Karen > Susan.

https://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2020/04/caucasity-karen-becky-susan.html

it's interesting that treesh identifies this as a conservative opinion bc it treats gen x liberal centrist feminism as conservative, which for rhetorical/dialectical purposes it often is, and then i saw this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXVlEMdVcAETEiB?format=jpg&name=900x900

tbf noone is ever mean to posh men

most men (esp. cis-het white men) are over-sensitive to criticism and need to "man up" -- if they received the same privilege push-back as white women do on the reg, they would either cry, try to cancel the internet, or else shoot a bunch of people

otm

a challenger approaches

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EXW_wrpU0AAEV1e?format=png&name=240x240

is she a jogger y or n?

I have seen evidence that "Karen" has already made the jump from woke Twitterites to broke Facebook whites.

― 🔫 (peace, man), Tuesday, May 5, 2020 6:00 PM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Karen" definitely means the person who narced on you for not wearing a mask and standing too close to people out in public now.

according to who? you mean on facebook?

Pretty sure it now means absolutely nothing coherent

What is this "Karen" thing?

I mean of course xp

the life cycle of slang:

black trans women invent a slang term to mean something specific

white gays co-opt it, bringing it into the mainstream while diluting its original meaning

white people in general exhaust all signification of the term completely in the course of two weeks

the Charmin twitter says "bae" or whatever

I pretty much now will not use any slang I heard recently at all because this process doesn't need my participation

uncool conservative belief: white people shouldn't use slang terms they just heard b/c it's either misused appropriated black queer/trans slang (bae, woke, Karen, slay, yass) or it's been invented by online white supremacist reactionaries (incel, cuck, simp, SJW)

that belief isn't uncool, it's poggers

"white people shouldn't say "woke" or "SJW"' is anything but a conservative belief. There is no conservative belief about what white people should say except "Any suggestion that white people shouldn't say just what they like is the real racism."

My uncool conservative belief is that there is probably very little public health benefit to wearing masks outdoors unless you are going to be in an unusually crowded setting for a long period of time.

mask wearing is a signal that you are taking this seriously and are unlikely to get in someone else's face, thus contributing to general social order.

as to the science behind my face bandana, i'm guessing "better than nothing" is likely accurate but - given the available options - the former is likely more important than the latter just now.

I don't live in the kind of metropolis where I'm going to bump into six or ten or twenty-five people on sidewalks, yet our county requires us to wear masks in enclosed public spaces.

Wearing the mask outdoors signifies that you care about the social compact.

I guess my uncool conservative belief is that I'm skeptical about the whole Karen origin on black twitter thing. I've not heard that anywhere but here. Light research suggests that it came from a reddit user that was complaining about his ex who was literally named Karen and the meme stemmed from that. Maybe a coincidence?

according to who? you mean on facebook?

― Evan, Monday, May 25, 2020 8:30 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yes. Every time a post pops up criticizing the general public for not social distancing, there rises a chorus of "Karen!"

I get the social signalling aspect and think it has real value, but where I live, I feel like this is taken care of by the fact that mask-wearing indoors (at least at the grocery store, which is the only place I've been indoors) is universal, even though not mandated by the state.

my uncool conservative belief is that ppl shouldn’t buy into misogynist stereotypes like “Karen” in the first place

white feminist is a slur

10^9 is a milliard. 10^12 is a billion.

ok grandpa

1 x duck is a mallard. 1 x chicken broth is a bullion.

I'm skeptical about the whole Karen origin on black twitter thing

can someone give some more info on the queer/poc origins of karen? i feel like i've been seeing this meme slowly evolve for the past decade on places like r3dd1t

my understanding was that it was just an evolution of the "can i speak to the manager haircut" meme

10^9 is a milliard. 10^12 is a billion.

― imago, Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:37 PM (two hours ago)

imago start saying "crore" imo

lol maybe

I just need to say this somewhere without derailing a good thread - I hate the lofty, self-righteous, self-serious rhetorical tone that every single fucking person adopts on twitter and facebook when they talk about BLM. I hate how every single fucking person feels like they need to make a big dramatic speech on it. I guess the "performativeness" is part of what I hate, and that's not even a conservative critique, I just find it really grating when people do that soaring speechifying thing.

this is THIS

THAT IS THAT

LISTEN

LEARN

PRAY

WALK

THINK

fwiw social media posts scolding people for not wearing masks are pretty performative, seldom seem interested in persuading people so much as wallowing in their own righteousness. I wear a mask and they still rankle. Tho this might be an US/UK thing, less people obnoxiously proud of not wearing them here.

yeah I find that irritating too - "I WAS JUST AT X PARK AND SO MANY PEOPLE WERE NOT WEARING MASKS!" as if just to say "humanity is doomed by its stupidity and I am above it."

look, i dunno. people are freaked out and frightened and i don't blame anybody for reaching for whatever tools they feel they need even if they're super sanctimonious. better that than nothing.

Tracer otm + even the most annoying things on earth can be dismissed if don’t let it aggravate you. Let it roll off of you.

agree, which is why I just quarantine such thoughts to thread like this

True. This is the place for it. And these are tough times. Sometimes stress manifests as irritability. Happens to the best of us!!