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          It’s a question about languages and you’re erroneously conflating that with race. Homie, this is not the hill for you to die on; and if you ever condescend to me like that again, we’re gonna start having problems. Wanna sit there and talk about “siding with the racists” and then play paternalist at the tail end of your fuckoff statement, fuck is wrong with you?

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            Step back and look at the situation from the third person and ask yourself if you like what you see.

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              So reality checking you didn’t work; I’ll tell it to you straight: log off for a week.

              Your conflation is flatly wrong. Language and race do are not some linked quantity. There is no gene preventing a white man from speaking Swahili, or a Black woman from speaking German, Dutch, Russian, and Gaelic.

              Were I to allow that erroneous conflation to slide, I’d be committing a type of liberalism as we (unfortunately, as of right now) share a community. Your not even considering self-crit when it’s made as clear as I possibly Can make it that you’ve got the wrong end of the hook here is another. Log out, touch grass, do better; otherwise don’t darken my inbox again. I know what ‘verbally looking for a fight’ looks like; and you’re doing it right now. Chill the fuck out and log off.

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                Believe me i’ve already logged off. If this shit happened in an org I would have resigned out of disgust.

                EDIT: “don’t darken my inbox again” 🤨 Is that really the kind of language you want to be using in this conversation? I think you have your own soul searching to be doing, if this ‘log off’ rant is any indication to be going off of, you probably do, because this the kind of thing that’s indistinguishable from twitter fascists who think they’re leftists yet spend more energy attacking the left than they do the right. Talks the big talk but routinely side with nazis whenever push comes to shove.

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      This person volunteered to be the one we can practice using this new knowledge on, bless their pure heart

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        We do need a word for these kinda comments. People who are so dull, boring and insignificant that they spend their entire time online attempting to be offended at literally fucking everything and everyone

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          Just come out as a pedophile, it’s a more productive use of your time and accomplishes the same thing.

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          I don’t think that’s what’s happening here and I don’t know of anyone who does that. Words do offend people, that is not something you have to try hard to do.

          I’m not a native English speaker and I don’t see how this could be offending. Or maybe this is some US thing?

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      Non native here: (without going to the link) here in South America we sometimes call a person by “Juanito” or “Fulano” they are some sort of “Jhon Doe” names and the insult being “you’re so irrelevant to me that I don’t want to learn your name” or “who is this random person that came uninvited” is not common but some people still use it from time to time. Is akin of calling someone “furniture” (yeah that used as an insult in Argentina mostly). (going to the link) it make even less sense now…

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    Dipshit. It’s my favorite insult. If you call a man an asshole or fucker, many take it as a sign of strength or say, 'i just tell it like it is." Dipshit is stupid and juvenile and naive and just perfectly describes so many people.

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      “Your mother was a hamster!” is pretty self-explanatory though.

      But elderberries smell rather nice. Or at least the last elderberry jam I had was quite lovely. So that certainly makes for a confusing insult.

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        They made booze from elderberries. The insult translates to “Your mother is a whore and your father is a drunk”

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    Shitist? Either that or “You have a February nose, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.”

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      Non native here: “Shitist” Shit elitist? shithead? defecation goutmette?
      “You have a February nose, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.” Boogers?

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        The Shitist thing is Australian I believe. I’m pretty sure it’s just “shittiest” or just now looking at urban dictionary “the most shit anything can be”.

        As for the other, I just looked up Shakespeare insults haha. Apparently it’s “Your face looks cold and unpleasant, and you seem angry.” According to the page I found it.

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    There are some southern or appalachian insults that I’m sure would confuse foreigners, even those who are functional in English.

    Comparisons like “He’s twelve ounces short of a pint”, backhanded compliments like “I just love how you don’t care what people think”, idioms like “three sheets to the wind”. And then of course there’s “rode hard and put up wet”.

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      Non native here: “three sheets to the wind” “rode hard and put up wet” are totally unknown and over my head.
      “He’s twelve ounces short of a pint” and “I just love how you don’t care what people think” I got them.

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        Rode hard and put up wet is a reference to horses. Riding a horse hard and then not taking care of them after the ride can cause them issue, physically and mentally. It is usually used to say someone is tired or generally not well. Others, my mother included, use it to mean she thinks a woman has had too much wild sex, usually with too many partners.

        Three sheets to the wind, means to be drunk. It is from nautical terms meaning the sails are not fastened.

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      There’s also “bless your heart”. Around here if someone tells you that, it is not a compliment.

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        And each modifier between “your” and “heart” increases the factor of how insulting they’re trying to be by at least 2

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    He’d peel an orange in his pocket

    He has two brains cells and they’re both fighting for third place

    He’s a face like he’s trying to eat an apple through a tennis racket

    The tide wouldn’t take her out

    Scarlet for your mam for having you

    Your arse is jealous of your mouth

    Snipers dream

    Spanner

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    In Australia, being a total bastard is a good thing, while being a bit of a bastard isn’t so good.

    Mad cunt = good. Shit cunt = bad, see image

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    “Crayon eater”, this one is specific to members of the U.S. Marine Corps, it can be used affectionately, but it’s very context dependent.