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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-10 03:51 pm

[ SECRET POST #3049 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3049 ⌋

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(Anonymous) 2015-05-11 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
Communities have standards and norms. This is true online and it's true in real life, too. Those standards and norms include what speech is considered appropriate, inappropriate, polite, rude, etc. Those standards exist because for society to work, it has to be ordered in some way.

There has always been policing of languages and phrases. People like you know this, because you live and work in the real world and you know what you can and can't say in social situations and at the workplace. Like everybody else, you even feel uncomfortable when someone says something that's not appropriate. You've probably gotten upset or annoyed with someone for saying a lot of rude things. You've probably even cut people out of your life because it seems like every time they open their mouth, something stupid or dickish comes out. But then you come on the internet and say "this isn't a hug box" and "it's only words."

It's not about it being "only words" or about it being a hug box, that's the thing. It's about you wanting to be able to say things that don't fit the standards of the community. You want to be able to be rude and not face any consequences for it, so you say things like this, even as you'll happily observe other social courtesies that are equally arbitrary and equally policing. In other words, you're a hypocrite and a dick.