I wouldn’t put too much stock in the weird shit Johnson says without a second corroborating source, personally. He’s an old Marine with some cliche drill sergeant characterization because he started as a throwaway side-character.

Plenty of people who were diagnosed, or just grew up, before ASD replaced Asperger’s as the preferred nomenclature don’t see themselves as in the same bucket as someone who is nonverbal or otherwise severely impacted.

Sounds like you don’t know very much about ecology. Outliers are very often punished in nature.

I’d say that most people don’t mask as well as they think they do, it’s just that people also don’t pay attention to others very much.

Edmund Burke and Joseph de Maistre were not anti-monarchist at all. Rather the opposite. If you’re thinking of the founding fathers of the United States then you’re not having the same conversation as who you replied to.

Brain damage is a consequence of of other sports as well, but the braindead hand-egg meme already betrays that you don’t actually want to think about it.

I don’t think it can ever be that thin. There’s too many constraints: needs to block other light, needs to be at a comfortable focal distance, needs power and a processor, not to mention the input and audio components…

Augmented reality glasses, yeah I can see that.

It’s just pointing out that your position isn’t consistent and seems to be related to how close the subject is to your own experience, while providing examples of the phenomenon of turning a derogatory generalization into a broadly understood concept that isn’t necessarily attached to its root. (Barbarian is a fun one since the word was making fun of the way foreigners talked. I don’t know of a direct contemporary comparison because people would rightfully point out that “chingchonger” is wildly offensive.) “Mansplaining” is a behavior specifically called out as a self-assured-man-assumes-ignorance-in-woman-and-condescendingly-explains-a-thing. It’s not just dudes talking, it’s not all men, and it doesn’t hurt men that the behavior is identified. Mansplaining is a particular tone and context, it’s hyper-specific language critical of one facet of patriarchal dominance and the assumed value of masculinity.

Alright well the key difference is that males are not a historically disadvantaged class and that makes a big difference.

Do you rail against “Karen” as an insult? What about philistine, Luddite, or barbarian? Do you fight this hard against “eat the rich” or ACAB?

The word is formed from an experience common enough that the word caught on overnight. We don’t need to get #notallmen about this.

(Also, “I’m struggling to think of examples”: thinks of several examples)

I’m sure that will be very comforting to all the people who still live in places where they can be executed for crimes like “sodomy” or “heresy”.

He didn’t even have to be a shit person to get rich! Just turned out to be one anyway.

And English is a very contextual language so something can be a slur in one use and not in another.

“Language changes and evolves over time, so we could also make a new word for this phenomenon.”

We did, you just don’t like it.

That’s some professional-grade entitlement.

The whole Anglosphere is pretty fucked thanks to Rupert Murdoch and easy cultural exchange. I’m not super up-to-date on European politics but I haven’t heard anything bad about Finland lately.

I’m the wrong guy to ask for that, sorry. Blue cheeses aren’t something I reach for.

This isn’t about what’s available in Europe (also, hyperbole makes a terrible argument. I can just point to something like Reykhólar) You’re specifically complaining about cheese availability in the United States and I think you’re way more invested in hating the country than actually trying to fix your problems.

There’s a lot more than one “American Cheddar”, it’s a big damn country with several distinct dairy regions. (Wisconsin, California, New York, and Vermont being significant but not exhaustive) And the cheese culture is just a fork of the various European colonizers/immigrants that brought cattle over, combining old techniques with new resources.

Cream cheese, Humboldt Fog, and Cougar Gold are some highlights of American-developed-and-produced cheeses.

If you can only find Cheddar and Colby Jack (which are real cheeses) then you’re doing a very bad job shopping for groceries.