pigginz:genzedong.xyz

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Cake day: July 19th, 2023
  • pigginz@lemmygrad.mltoGenZedong@lemmygrad.ml•"Russians are not Europeans but Mongols "
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    1 year ago

    Her whole public persona is crafted to be as irritating as possible. It’s part of the whole 4chan/NAFO/reddit/internet liberal/fascist culture where “triggering” people is the entire goal, because showing emotions while engaging in any sort of discourse means you’ve been “owned” and any points you might be trying to make are invalid because you’ve been exposed as hysterical and biased as opposed to being an enlightened centrist.

  • pigginz@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Plastic surgery and designer babies under socialism?
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    1 year ago

    Yes, but my point is more that it can be dealt with, it’s a relic of the old world that doesn’t have to survive. A demand for excessive plastic surgery and genetically pure babies are not likely to be a thing, long-term, in a socialist society.

    Maybe I misunderstood the OP, but I guess I’m trying to say that socialism itself - insofar as it abolishes the old systems of capitalism and inequality - already is the solution for most of those problems, I don’t think outlandish medical procedures and genetic engineering for the masses need to be part of the conversation.

    Like you said, reconciliation and understanding.

    Edit: to be clear I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment, I think I probably should have replied to the thread instead of to your comment.

  • pigginz@lemmygrad.mltoComradeship // Freechat@lemmygrad.ml•Plastic surgery and designer babies under socialism?
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    1 year ago

    I challenge the idea that “discrimination based on attractiveness and height” would necessarily be a thing in a socialist society. Is the socialist state going to be rigorously maintaining and pushing western beauty standards once the profit motives and corporations that currently do so are gone? Why would it do so? What does the proletariat have to gain by dividing and fracturing itself according to arbitrary standards of appearance?

    Standards of beauty are a cultural thing, and culture is malleable. If the material motivations for classifying and discriminating against groups of people are gone, then any remaining remnants of dangerous and discriminatory ideology should be substantially easier to isolate and combat.