• Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    What is the actual anger you feel?

    A few people in our society would like their honorific to be Mx. How does that impact your life?

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      1 year ago

      One, it’s virtue signaling at its best.

      Secondly, randomly adding in the letter x to things is not ‘common sense’.

      Common sense is the ability to make practical judgments and behave in a sensible way. It’s the knowledge and experience that most people have, or should have.

      So my original point still stands. ‘Mx’ is not common sense. Knowing not to play a game of chicken with traffic, is common sense. Maybe this is why common sense isn’t so common anymore, people just appropriate words/phrases to mean whatever they want, instead of what they mean.

      This is how we’ve ended up in a world where the word literally no longer means the word literally.

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        1 year ago

        Bitcoin isn’t common sense. NFTs aren’t common sense. Picking fruit in Brazil, sending it to China for packaging, and shipping to Brazil for resale isn’t common sense.

        Common sense doesn’t work as a magic guide.

        Is it virtue signaling for someone named Benjamin to ask to be called Ben? The request is to know their name. That’s all.

        Also, virtue signaling what? I don’t see it.