NeoGAF & ResetERA - The Hilarious N̶e̶v̶e̶r̶e̶n̶d̶i̶n̶g̶ Splintering "Gaming" Forum Circus

Denmark Mafia said:
This thread about "white fragility" is fucking hilarious. So much angry dogpiling and REEing over even the slightest dissent.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/wh...-an-important-step-in-combating-racism.80238/
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I take it people are familiar with the concept of compaction cycles? It's basically when a group engages in constant purity testing while ratcheting up the intensity of their rhetoric in an effort to force a set of beliefs. Anyone who fails to keep tempo is excluded from the group; in ResetEra's case this is really easy because the mods can just ban offenders. This is normally discussed in the context of cults, but it can apply to any sufficiently exclusive group. Anyway, the "compaction" part doesn't just refer to casting out non-believers, it also refers to how the people who remain get more and more radicalized over time. Now, I haven't been observing ResetEra ever since it was created, but I do know that the bloodlust present in some of their more recent threads wasn't as intense a few months ago. It's also how you get this guy getting banned for a week for "trolling", the standards have shifted to a point where the very obviously racist person he's replying to is fine but he's evil for questioning the narrative.
 
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CrunkLord420 said:
Alright, this has to be a Twitter ToS violation. https://twitter.com/NESbot_feed/status/1061187842280427520 (https://archive.fo/DqBYS)
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https://twitter.com/Tnudering/status/1061209838292791296 (https://archive.fo/8IsjG)
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These people aren't GGers or conservatives, they're card carrying liberals who follow identity politics.
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Could you make a REEE New Ban twitter account that spits out the username, ban message and a link to your site with the post whenever someone gets the ban hammer?
 
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Sinners Sandwich said:
Whenever I see peole using troon vocabulary unironically like this "cis" bullshit I wonder how they became so cucked.
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Senior Lexmechanic said:
Scientific documentation generally frowns on using imprecise terminology. Literally all I'm saying.
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Fun fact, "cis" is an actual word used primarily in central sciences, since it is a prefix which kinda-sorta translates to "same." You hear it a lot in mid-level chemistry courses, actually. Linguistically speaking, however, it doesn't make sense. "Trans" means you change something and end being something else, like from one place to another, or in this instance, one sex to the other. "Cis," however, also carries the implication that you are changing something, you just finish the same way you started at the end of it all. So saying "cis gendered" is inherently linguistically incorrect, because it implies you underwent some surgery just to end up the same sex you already are. It shows that the people who adopted the terminology were just applying the closest thing to what they thought was right without actually putting much thought into it.

Ignoring that it defies language, there's not much reason to denote somebody as "cis gendered" when people who are transgender are inherently an outlier. We don't have a special name for people who have all their limbs or who aren't blind because that's the expectation for a healthy individual, and the alternative simply isn't statistically likely. If you encounter somebody who either demands or says "cis gender," it shows they've fallen for the angry ranting from people who demand we have some moniker for what is otherwise the undifferentiated norm.
 
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Munchingonfish said:
Could you make a REEE New Ban twitter account that spits out the username, ban message and a link to your site with the post whenever someone gets the ban hammer?
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You can only use the twitter API to post if you've used a phone number to verify the account. Other than that, it's very easy.

If anyone has a cheap/free method to provision a disposable number without going all out and buying a prepaid SIM card feel free to send me a PM.
 
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Fun fact, "cis" is an actual word used primarily in central sciences, since it is a prefix which kinda-sorta translates to "same." You hear it a lot in mid-level chemistry courses, actually. Linguistically speaking, however, it doesn't make sense. "Trans" means you change something and end being something else, like from one place to another, or in this instance, one sex to the other. "Cis," however, also carries the implication that you are changing something, you just finish the same way you started at the end of it all. So saying "cis gendered" is inherently linguistically incorrect, because it implies you underwent some surgery just to end up the same sex you already are. It shows that the people who adopted the terminology were just applying the closest thing to what they thought was right without actually putting much thought into it.

Ignoring that it defies language, there's not much reason to denote somebody as "cis gendered" when people who are transgender are inherently an outlier. We don't have a special name for people who have all their limbs or who aren't blind because that's the expectation for a healthy individual, and the alternative simply isn't statistically likely. If you encounter somebody who either demands or says "cis gender," it shows they've fallen for the angry ranting from people who demand we have some moniker for what is otherwise the undifferentiated norm.
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True, but the definitions used socially don't really line up with how they're used scientifically, particularly in chemistry. The only relation the two have is its something to differentiate one thing from another. I was under the impression that in troon speak, trans was rooted in transforming, and cis was supposed to be an anagram for "comfortable in skin." I assume that after the term trans had caught on by the mid 90s, someone noticed in their science class that cis was opposite of trans, and in giving cis a cute new meaning, it gives us a way to stop calling people not like us "normal." It's all a bunch of language gymnastics to normalize their cause to a country that otherwise doesn't really care one way or the other.

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