Reveal Your Uncool Conservative Beliefs Here

that gluten comment reminded me that i really like the smell of baker's yeast

sorry this probably belongs in a 'weird smells you secretly love' thread

xp yeah i chose my profession based on vaguely altruistic aspirations which i'm totally over and now i have a shit ton of debt and a low income range so my spending capacity will probably just become more limited in the mid-term, buying things has turned into my way of not dealing with it well. i also want to travel so bad.

Money is good when you can travel, buy drinks for friends, and think of nice places to eat lunch.

sorry this probably belongs in a 'weird smells you secretly love' thread

Is there such a thread? I would like that. Though probably I'd find out that all the 'weird' smells I love are totally normcore and boring.

haha probably applies to me as well

i searched for it but couldn't find anything really relevant

there's a sickly sweet smell of wood that the table at my summer camp made when i scraped/filed it w/ the broad side of my pencil. also that chlorine'y indoor swimming pool smell.

I vote "strange scent wafting out of the a/c vent"

I think it's a shame that not all schools are teaching cursive writing anymore.

I have a limited range of small-c conservative beliefs but the ones that tend to cause the most arguments are:

The interests of teachers and teaching unions don't always overlap with the interests of learners.

Defamation and privacy laws need to be fit for purpose and resistant to obvious abuse but should be robust enough to provide a genuine check on a 'free press'.

weirdly i think all of my conservative beliefs are really leftist beliefs in disguise?

like, nature is indifferent, nobody deserves or is owed anything, not freedom, not safety, not a future, not care nor consideration -- there are no rights, history has no moral arc. that these things exist in the present is the result of long struggle, easily reversed.

humans are totally depraved, by their nature

that's not really conservative though? hobbes is a foundational thinker in liberal thought?

it's a conservative belief cf. Lakoff

My most conservative belief is probably that deep down I'm pretty glad/relieved to live under the protection of the world's most powerful military.

I like Uber a lot.

I like Airbnb a lot and ppl are always equating the two. Is there a difference? *wanders out*

i love airbnb

i have an almost physical revulsion to public shaming -- even in cases where the person did something "bad," i feel there is something unseemly about reveling in how bad and awful they are and how they are a "perfect example" of some larger social formation that is ultimately outside their control

People who use Uber and AirBnB and all these services should dispense with any pretense that those they are paying are equals, when they are functionally "the help" and should be treated accordingly and dress the part.

i get mildly annoyed by the use of "latinx" instead of latino, it is just cumbersome and i am skeptical of the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive

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http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2012/12/friday-damn.gif

Twenty One Pilots is a good band

i get mildly annoyed by the use of "latinx" instead of latino, it is just cumbersome and i am skeptical of the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive

― marcos, Friday, August 26, 2016 4:39 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'll go one further and say that i think the notion that grammatical gender is oppressive is deeply anglocentric, as many languages -- including spanish -- can't do away with gendering things as easily as english can

except "latino" and "latina" are words used in an english language context in the first place. it is a political designation in the US to describe people whose national/ethnic heritage traces to latin american countries. the term itself is already anglocentric. making it gender neutral in writing is p cool, though kind of a bear to vocalize. la-TIN-ex? la-TINKS? la-TIN-equis?

(also language is def oppressive tho obv using the right pronouns alone is not justice, etc.)

throws conservative 2 cents in: polyamory is a fool's errand

I wouldn't call it a belief but when an acquaintance or internet stranger goes on about their life being out of control, my reaction is sometimes "why not just have your life not be a nightmare train wreck" as if they chose it

This is the most uncool thing I'm aware of about myself.

Being roughly aligned with J Street as far as I/P issues makes me a conservative by some standards and a self-hating Jew by others so I don't count that.

I really don't enjoy people who use FB as the place to air all thir woes

*their

you shouldn't be able to graduate college without passing a class called Shutting the Fuck Up About Things Most of the Time

bureaucracy is good

throws conservative 2 cents in: polyamory is a fool's errand

― 6 god none the richer (m bison)

for straights

Noted!

I don't think septum piercings look particularly good.

Tattoos are fucking repulsive.

i think sometimes you probably have to execute your political enemies

i prefer latin@s. haha.

nothing anglocentric about the use tho, you see latinxs and latin@s in Spanish - well ive seen both used in spain and chile.

i agree that the fact that the plural term in spanish for something including both genders is just the form used for dudes is not the biggest issue.

the term "gender" was historically purely grammatical of course, up until modern times at least

isn't rendering something in a way that's unsayable privileging the written over the lived? or does it call attn to that fact? is it logocentric (only 90s kids will understand)

I assumed that ppl who use it just say "la-TIN-ex" like m bison suggested above? has anyone here heard someone say "latinx" irl?

or, to be accurate, I assumed ppl pronounced it "la-TEEN-ex"

Pretty much only at Black Lives Matter rallies and similar protests.
Xp

(It is la-TEEN-ex as far as I know)

la-TEEN-ex is phonetically atrocious imo, sounds like portmanteau of latrine and kleenex. i had previously imagined it pronounced la-TINX, which doesn't quite roll off the tongue, either. i'll call anyone whatever they want tho because being uptight about it is NOT one of my Uncool Conservative Beliefs B-)

there needs to be a word for the cycle of denial, anxiety, frustration and acceptance we go through when made aware of new inclusive/pc terminology lol

The 4 stages of woke

i don't tihnk i'm getting more conservative but i think like internet social justice clickbait shit and all the pop culture armchair sociology and shit around it is getting tiresome, like analyzing every beyonce VMA appearance or young thug album cover as some hugely meaningful thing in our discourse around social justice is annoying. idk im a poc and have spent a lot of time the past few years immersed in social justice / diversity / inclusion work in my career including chairing the diversity & inclusion committee at my last job so part of it could just be diversity fatigue which i've talked about w/ other people doing this kind of work byut i also just have less patience for the dumber shit said by people who i otherwise agree with

latinx okay i get it but i still think it is kind of dumb

latinx sounds like an energy drink for latin@s

bureaucracy is good

This is an uncool liberal belief, not a conservative one

http://i.imgur.com/8o9Z2lZ.jpg

like one way street upthread what I think of as "uncool conservative beliefs" may in fact be "mainstream liberal beliefs" that I suspect would catch flak from my more occasionally radical interlocutors

Many xposts

To be clear fwiw my la-TIN-ex pronunciation is the long I sound in Spanish