this reminds me of that time i off-handedly called someone a "psycho"

and someone showed up to be like "blah blah thats an ableist slur", then i and a few other people were like "i thought it was a reference to psychopaths"

the whole point of the word psychopath is that it literally just means someone who is a piece of shit who goes out of their way to cause harm without remorse.

it's not a mental illness. it can't be treated. you can't treat asshole-syndrome, aside from holding people accountable.

and this kid's argument was that "psycho" was a reference to "psychotic", which is a completely different thing.

so i just kinda said okay whatever.

but this kid just kept going and going, acting like simply NOT KNOWING something is a mortal sin.

drawing up comparisons of how "trans people have existed forever" therefore i should magically know stuff about trans people.

so i said okay thats a stupid comparison, because i'm trans. but due to my upbringing i didn't know what trans was until i was like 24.

so obviously people don't just magically know stuff.

then after a while of trying to explain to this kid how knowledge works, they start dropping racist slurs just for the sake of being edgy and trying to get a reaction out of me.

i just blocked them, because it was clearly gonna be nothing but a waste of time after that.

anyway.

this whole "pleroma is for nazis" business reminds me A LOT of that encounter.

because clearly, even if "pleroma is for nazis", then mastodon is for trolls who misuse and weaponize bad social justice rhetoric just for harassment and creating conflict.