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Of this I'm not sure I agree. What greater expression of disapproval of an ideology than denigrating it by what it considers the worst possible words? I'm not arguing that be done here, only that such things ought to have their place for any group and targeting anyone. If it's a free for all, nobody can lay claim to some special status as oppressed. But if special exemptions are given, and expected, that paves the way precisely for the boat we are in now. It hardly matters what group you are part of, increasingly these days just not kowtowing to Californian progressivism is a death sentence.

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I get what you're saying. But we're talking about things like this: https://web.archive.org/web/20190820162056/https://old.reddit.com/r/DropTheTea/

The images in the banner, or a series of posts like the creator made called "Monsters Among Us". Just mockery and sneering and disgust, disguised as activism.

Freeze peaches and all that jazz, but how does that make us look? As LGB people trying to fight for our right to exist?

That's why we're saying someone else can make it and do whatever they want. And hell, we'll even link to it so any users who do want to pull off the gloves and go hard, they know where to go too. But it's not appropriate here.

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I think you're mistaken regarding mockery as not activism. Do you honestly think religion would not be being beaten back from its excesses were it not for the mountains of well earned mockery levied against them? That is the place of mockery to begin with. If you are not allowed to argue, if the people you argue against won't hear you, that is exactly when mockery is deserved and best suited.