“Straw Suicide” has given me a lot to think about. I don’t have a better or more concise term for what you’re talking about…but I did ponder other metaphors for losing a pointless and ill-advised argument even though you’re technically correct:
It’s something like faking an orgasm while masturbating…there is no sane reason to do it, no one will ever know it happened unless you tell them–and NO ONE wants you to tell them.
If for some reason you MUST share this experience with other humans, many will find it disturbing or offensive…but practically all will find it utterly baffling.
And you better be prepared for that.
Returning to the main subject, the pentacle and the swastika are kinda in the same boat as the Confederate flag:
Sure, you can argue all day that the “Stars And Bars” do not NECESSARILY represent slavery, oppression, and the brutal and systematic dehumanization of an entire continent’s populace…
And it means precisely dick if you’re right:
The association exists–it’s not going away just because you don’t want everyone to think you’re a racist piece of shit…
If you don’t want people to think that, don’t wear a fucking Confederate flag shirt.
And if you don’t want to be Nazi or Satanist-adjacent, avoid swastikas and pentacles.
Otherwise, be prepared to live with the accompanying presumptions.
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“Straw Suicide” has given me a lot to think about. I don’t have a better or more concise term for what you’re talking about…but I did ponder other metaphors for losing a pointless and ill-advised argument even though you’re technically correct:
It’s something like faking an orgasm while masturbating…there is no sane reason to do it, no one will ever know it happened unless you tell them–and NO ONE wants you to tell them.
If for some reason you MUST share this experience with other humans, many will find it disturbing or offensive…but practically all will find it utterly baffling.
And you better be prepared for that.
Returning to the main subject, the pentacle and the swastika are kinda in the same boat as the Confederate flag:
Sure, you can argue all day that the “Stars And Bars” do not NECESSARILY represent slavery, oppression, and the brutal and systematic dehumanization of an entire continent’s populace…
And it means precisely dick if you’re right:
The association exists–it’s not going away just because you don’t want everyone to think you’re a racist piece of shit…
If you don’t want people to think that, don’t wear a fucking Confederate flag shirt.
And if you don’t want to be Nazi or Satanist-adjacent, avoid swastikas and pentacles.
Otherwise, be prepared to live with the accompanying presumptions.