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Tell me how these things are different, please...
- Inviting people to help you tar and feather someone
- Frivolously referencing or advocating prison rape
- Suggesting suicide to someone as an alternative to having to admit they’re wrong
I’d like to add in the point about not calling your enemies out as inhuman (cockroaches, dogs, opossums...) but I’m afraid that’s a different argument — the one under the heading of bigotry. You, know, this one:
DO NOT: Use racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, ageist, able-ist language -- or hate speech, generally. It is not acceptable at this site. We respect everyone. (Nota bene: that includes our enemies, dammit. And since a picture is worth a thousand words, that includes images that “say” the same thing.)
Now that I haven’t covered that point, let’s get back to not calling for violence, including self-harm. Even in jest. Even when you use a cartoon or a gif or a still image to say what you are being careful not to say in words. Even when it’s somebody else’s tweet you pulled off the internet and linked to. Even when the comment picks up a dozen recommends and a couple of Attaboys.
Violence is not a joke. Rape is not a joke. Suicide is not a joke. If you must treat them that way, please find another venue to do it in.
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