Things I Don't Get

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Why airports have bars that serve alcohol then wonder why many passengers are too drunk to board the plane.

Why people still feel the need to throw the R-slur like confetti around in 2023.

Same

1. Because in their circle the word while a slur had not gotten to the point where you can’t say or have to use an R- euphemism.

2. They do know you are not supposed to say it but want to prove to themselves and others they have not become politically correct/woke.

3. They do know you are not supposed to say it but do it for trolling purposes.

I don't get why some people seem to think and act like they're the main character of the world.

You see it with a lot of social media, people filming themselves in public doing the latest dance trend so they can try and go viral or whatever and then get annoyed that there's people in public (like someone walks in front of the camera) or get mad when other people get annoyed at them for bothering everyone just to film their ding-danged videos. (I remember seeing one video where someone was annoyed at them for blocking the sidewalk and the person who was trying to film a video told them to just 'walk on the street')

Like I personally have a negative reaction to all those dance trend videos you see because of idiots who bother others in public in order to film themselves, but at least do it in private or in a place where there's no one around to bother.

I don't get why it's difficult for some autistic people not to understand a metaphor or idiom that they haven't heard before. Surely an NT wouldn't understand a metaphor that they have never heard before.

Or is it something an NT can easily work out? I don't get it

I do not get why the people most devoted to their religions are contemptuous, mean, and downright cruel to anyone whom they perceive as "defective" or "inferior" in some way.

I feel the same. It's like EVERYONE is selfish and self centred now, acting like they are the star and everyone should revolve round them. We can't have 8 billion stars on the Earth however, that doesn't work.

And anyone trying to help others or do good in the world is labelled a Woke PC leftie snowflake and mocked.

Isn't it GOOD to help other people and show kindness?

WTF is going on in this world if we are mocked for helping others.

Add thin skinned to that list too.

I'm proud to wear all those labels thrown at us by s**t munchers.

So true! Well said! They're after money I suppose, as usual.

Oh yes, me too. As far as I know, Woke means 'aware of other people's needs and not just your own.' And PC means 'treating other people with respect.' Leftie means 'left wing political beliefs.'

That is fine by me!

I've no idea what snowflake means though

Snowflakes are people that are offended by things that weren't considered offensive before.

Woke is extreme political correctness, and political correctness is policing what people can and can't say.

I know how to be respectful but without being part of the woke culture. For example I have friends that are black, and homosexual, and I don't see an issue with that. They're just people like me, regardless of colour or sexuality. But I don't agree that a white person voicing a black cartoon character has to be offensive. If a black person voices a white cartoon character is that still offensive? I wouldn't be offended. I just enjoy the cartoon.

So I'm in-between. A fair balance.

I don't agree with your definitions of woke and PC but I don't mean that as a criticism of you.

I've seen 'snowflakes' on the left and the right of the political spectrum so I think when people say 'leftie snowflake' it's not always correct, it can be any side of the spectrum. I don't mean you are saying that, I mean people in general.

I don't get my intelligence level and abilities. I have no idea how capable i am.

It's a typical reaction to not understand a metaphor, or even take it literally, if one has never heard it before. But if an autistic person does this then it's just social ineptitude and that to be socially skilled you have to know every metaphor before you reach age 5.

I hate it when people who know I'm Aspie assume I will take every metaphor literally. Like one time when I was a teenager my therapist asked me if I knew what "coming out of my shell" meant and that if she wanted to draw a picture to help me remember what it meant. I just sighed and said, "no, I do not need a picture drawn, I know what it means, thank you". Jeez!

I don't know a single person who has said or thinks it's offensive for white people to voice black characters in cartoons, the entire argument for voice actors stepping down and being replaced is that it should be like in live-action TV shows and movies where minority characters are played by minority actors.

Like no would even think of having a white person playing a black character in a live-action show, so why have them voice one in a cartoon? Yeah you can definitely argue 'Well it's a cartoon, it's not like they're donning blackface for the voice role' and that's very true, but at the same time, why not just hire a black voice actor for them? Same with any other race.

Also have to disagree with your definition of 'snowflake', that may be the dictionary definition of the term (when used in a political/social context), but from my own experience it's mostly just used by right-wingers as a term to refer to liberals and leftists (which they also love to conflate and treat as the same thing even though, speaking as someone who is very much far-left politically, I and other leftists have virtually nothing politically in common with liberals) who have any reaction to anything they do or say.

Like I personally have been called a snowflake for....calling out and not putting up with people saying bigoted and hateful garbage.

????

The term literally is meaningless (not like it ever meant anything anyways, it's mostly just a snarl word).