Brexit

[Jonah]

I'll admit that I had no idea what the term cuck means...

Obviously, it’s short for cuckold, an emasculated man.

However, in the past year it’s become the hot new internet insult. It started out as cuckservative, an insult by Trump supporters to describe Bush and Bush supporters. Then it became a generic insult by Trumpers to describe any conservative too spineless to support Donald. Now it’s been shortened back to cuck and used by right-wingers of all stripes, everyone from neo-nazis describing anyone not racist enough to movement conservatives describing RINOs.

Only recently has it started to be used against liberals by trolls pretending to be stupid. Still, whatever form it now takes, like all of the most crude insults, it’s all about projecting your own fears, failures and cowardice onto someone else.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Obviously, it’s short for cuckold, an emasculated man.

However, in the past year it’s become the hot new internet insult. It started out as cuckservative, an insult by Trump supporters to describe Bush and Bush supporters. Then it became a generic insult by Trumpers to describe any conservative too spineless to support Donald. Now it’s been shortened back to cuck and used by right-wingers of all stripes, everyone from neo-nazis describing anyone not racist enough to movement conservatives describing RINOs.

Only recently has it started to be used against liberals by trolls pretending to be stupid. Still, whatever form it now takes, like all of the most crude insults, it’s all about projecting your own fears, failures and cowardice onto someone else.

Yet somehow the first person to utter the words here, the first person to bring it up, is one of the boards liberals.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Melting pots don't really work, because the social groups in power force the powerless to conform to what they think is ideal. While something like food may be an example where a "melting pot" approach has worked, things like beauty standards, language, religion, clothing (and countless other examples) are examples where it hasn't. I think the better approach is a "cultural mosaic". Allowing peaceful coexistence and mutual respect/appreciation for separate cultures that are all tied together in one greater picture-- i.e. the 'American identity'. Melting pots involve a "dilution" assimilating process, whereas the latter doesn't.

Why is assimilation so bad? I've seen you speak out against national pride, but somehow cultural pride is so much better? White people can't have dreads because they're white and from Ohio? ****, we better ban archery hunting so we don't culturally appropriate the Native Americans, right?

Let's be honest...if this is what we have to bitch about, then life isn't too bad. There are so many bigger issues out there, but this is what y'all wanna spend your time on. And Dala, there will always be those in power and those who are "powerless". It's not going away. You're just trying to switch who's in power.

 

[Jonah]

Yet somehow the first person to utter the words here, the first person to bring it up, is one of the boards liberals.

Well, I won’t defend its use by anyone. It’s out there for partisans of all stripes to brand perceived enemies and says much more about them than whomever it’s directed against.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Well, I won’t defend its use by anyone. It’s out there for partisans of all stripes to brand perceived enemies and says much more about them than whomever it’s directed against.

I agree it's stupid, but nobody here is using the word, so why are we talking about it? It's not an issue.

 

[Jonah]

I agree it's stupid, but nobody here is using the word, so why are we talking about it? It's not an issue.

I was responding to the poster who used the word here but was either ignorant of its real meaning and current usage as insult or, more likely, just pretending to be stupid.

 

[RandyForRubio]

Scat doesn't have to try to pretend to be stupid. No worries there.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Yet somehow the first person to utter the words here, the first person to bring it up, is one of the boards liberals.

a total **** post, if I'm being honest

 

[Deleted member 848]

I agree it's stupid, but nobody here is using the word, so why are we talking about it? It's not an issue.

You're able to scroll up and read. I implied that it was a matter of time before a Trump-supporter like Scat would go around calling people cucks (a tactic generally specific to the neo-nazi wing of America's conservatives). It has the racial imagery of white America letting themselves be ****ed by left America, as represented by a black male.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Why is assimilation so bad? I've seen you speak out against national pride, but somehow cultural pride is so much better?

Why do you speak in simplistic generalities? How on earth can we simplify national pride to one simple thing? Wtf are you even talking about. I'm insanely proud of my Canadian identity, and my Albanian heritage-- look no further than the first post of the Euro 2016 thread. But, of course, here comes the 'nuance' that ppl on the right seem to be so allergic to: national pride is a spectrum, and differs both in extents and ramifications from scenario to scenario.

White people can't have dreads because they're white and from Ohio? ****, we better ban archery hunting so we don't culturally appropriate the Native Americans, right?

Black hair is a complicated issue that you clearly show zero desire in understanding. I bet you have zero ****ing idea the lengths that black women go through in order to "whitify" their hair, thanks to employers and attempts to climb the rungs of socioeconomic status.

Let's be honest...if this is what we have to bitch about, then life isn't too bad. There are so many bigger issues out there, but this is what y'all wanna spend your time on.

Let's be honest, you shouldn't patronizingly insult an issue you clearly don't ****ing understand, and show zero desire to understand.

And Dala, there will always be those in power and those who are "powerless". It's not going away. You're just trying to switch who's in power.

You're right-- I'm trying to make those in power not be represented as one racial and/or cultural bloc who's very actions destroy and hinder the livelihoods of the powerless just because of their different racial groups. And I'm not ashamed of that.

 

[RandyForRubio]

a total **** post, if I'm being honest

You're able to scroll up and read. I implied that it was a matter of time before a Trump-supporter like Scat would go around calling people cucks (a tactic generally specific to the neo-nazi wing of America's conservatives). It has the racial imagery of white America letting themselves be ****ed by left America, as represented by a black male.

You are of course, aware that you were the one who brought up the word, right? If pointing out a fact makes something a **** post, then yes, it was a **** post.

I understand why you wouldn't like the word. I called it stupid myself. But still, nobody has used it yet (save yourself). Clearly you have different time commitments than me, but I don't really have time to rant about a word that nobody has used yet.

Fwiw, it's pretty ironic of you to use the "people like scat..." line. Had he said something like, "it's not long before people like Dala blow up the board", I can't imagine you would have liked it. You're doing the same thing.

 

[RandyForRubio]

a total **** post, if I'm being honest

Why do you speak in simplistic generalities? How on earth can we simplify national pride to one simple thing? Wtf are you even talking about. I'm insanely proud of my Canadian identity, and my Albanian heritage-- look no further than the first post of the Euro 2016 thread. But, of course, here comes the 'nuance' that ppl on the right seem to be so allergic to: national pride is a spectrum, and differs both in extents and ramifications from scenario to scenario.




Black hair is a complicated issue that you clearly show zero desire in understanding. I bet you have zero ****ing idea the lengths that black women go through in order to "whitify" their hair, thanks to employers and attempts to climb the rungs of socioeconomic status.




Let's be honest, you shouldn't patronizingly insult an issue you clearly don't ****ing understand, and show zero desire to understand.



You're right-- I'm trying to make those in power not be represented as one racial and/or cultural bloc who's very actions destroy and hinder the livelihoods of the powerless just because of their different racial groups. And I'm not ashamed of that.

You didn't actually answer any questions tho...you're trying to make this an emotional debate. Just answer the questions.