• jsomae@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I’m not the on who brought the word problematic into this conversation. But I bet you if I put a poll on, say, tumblr, asking about different potentially problematic things, “pretending to be asian” would score highly on the problematic scale.

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      2 days ago

      He wasn’t pretending to be asian, though, the book John Dies at The End makes that very clear and gives a silly in universe reason for the now dead pseudonym. It really was not problematic, even at the time of it being used.

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        1 day ago

        Just a few comments up you said

        He stopped using it for that very reason, and took accountability. People are allowed to self correct, if he understands the problem with what he did and course corrected

        Now that you were pushed on it a bit you’re saying

        It really was not problematic, even at the time of it being used.

        Something about this interaction feels really dishonest.

        Was there a problem he needed to take accountability for or not?

        • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
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          1 day ago

          Two things can be true.

          Also.

          Read into the guy if you’re so fucking concerned and I’m so fucking dishonest. Cunts like you are why I’m two seconds away from being done with this stupid site.

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            13 hours ago

            If you’re just here to throw a tantrum and call people mean names I don’t think you will be missed.

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                4 hours ago

                Leaving this site aside, its good for everyone, both you and I, to take breaks and focus on our mental when we can.

                Whatever you’re doing here, I don’t think the replies you’d tend to get behaving like this are worth the mental energy it seems to be costing you.

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                  3 hours ago

                  Considering you started this conversation blatantly calling me dishonest for recommending a writer who doesn’t rape people or pursue political and social erasure of a demographic, maybe take your own advice.

                  What did your other response say before you deleted it?

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        2 days ago

        Then I will rephrase – asking tumblr “is it problematic for a white person to go by an obviously Asian name as a pseudonym,” I feel that even phrased that way they would still say “yes.”

        I don’t really use the word ‘problematic’ in the social justice sense myself because it’s incredibly vague, but if you’re going to specifically use the word problematic and claim that Jason Pargin isn’t, then I feel that it’s a pretty cut-and-dry “yes that was ‘problematic’” scenario.