META: If being civil is our most prominent rule then we should refrain from using Red Pill buzzwords and Blue Pill mockery.

Atlas_B_Shruggin · 2016-08-14T23:36:56+00:00

yeh uh how are we going to discuss "the red pill" without discussign redpill terminology

the_shitposting_pill · 2016-08-14T19:37:10+00:00

PPD just isn't the same if some TRPer can't call me a "beta faggot" and I can't tell him to shove a red-colored suppository up his ass in return...

cxj · 2016-08-14T21:51:16+00:00

MURICA here. If I can't call ppl on ppd faggots at will, well, SOMEONE'S GETTING SUED!

Entropy-7 · 2016-08-14T22:15:32+00:00

It's a matter of degree. If this place adopted Parliamentary etiquitte it would be boring enough to scare away the 90% of people who don't know how to call you a fucktard in rather refined terms.

[deleted] · 2016-08-14T22:53:06+00:00

I could only take terpers seriously if they posted reasonable discussions in all good faith in the red pill. Because they don't, I can't see how anyone can debate their theories with any seriousness in PPD.

I see PPD being here for debating gender issues, with red pill theory and terminology an amusing diversion.

SkentyDooBabble · 2016-08-14T19:32:13+00:00

which red pill buzzwords are you referring to? I agree that things like "cock carousel" are pretty extreme. But where is the line?

Interversity · 2016-08-15T06:58:35+00:00

I fully agree. I dislike the use of terms such as 'terp', 'bloop', 'twerp', etc. and I think we would be no worse off, and probably better off, without those sort of terms being used.

I'm less sure about TRP buzzwords, however. They do make it simpler and easier for us to communicate somewhat complex ideas very quickly. 'Cock carousel', for example, would take at least a long sentence, if not a paragraph, to say fully every time. Using CC as shorthand is just more efficient.

midnightvulpine · 2016-08-15T10:58:58+00:00

Honestly, it might actually be an interesting exercise to see people leave the rhetoric behind. The jargon and buzzwords are easy. Having to put your arguments purely into plain english would be a way to extend one's own understanding of them, perhaps. To elaborate without going off topic and to avoid the impulse to drag the discussion down with unflattering words.

the_shitposting_pill · 2016-08-14T19:59:49+00:00

but then how would i have gotten such a flair, if not for red pillers calling me a whore (or fat or ugly) when i say something they don't agree with? it's practically a rite of passage here these days.

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LeaneGenova · 2016-08-14T23:50:02+00:00

Using RP terms isn't uncivil. That's absurd.

Civility is speaking to and about people as if you were face to face with them.

No, it's not. Civil: (Adj.) "Polite but not friendly : only as polite as a person needs to be in order to not be rude."

despisedlove2 · 2016-08-15T02:40:03+00:00

You might as well ban debate.

TrialsAndTribbles · 2016-08-14T20:29:17+00:00

There's a fine line between civility and censorship, I would rather suffer the consequences of too much freedom than not enough.

SpaceWhiskey · 2016-08-14T21:40:41+00:00

How are we going to discus TRP without mentioning TRP buzzwords? Buzzwords are basically everything in TRP.

SetConsumes · 2016-08-14T23:50:59+00:00

RP terms are modern english.

ProbablyBelievesIt · 2016-08-14T21:00:40+00:00

Terms & Acronyms

I'm a big believer in indirectly weeding out those unwilling or unable to educate themselves on the position, ideology, terminology of the other side. I'll be happy to explain the jargon if asked, but I will never stop using the jargon. If it scares away "civil" people, good riddance. Life's too short to change for lazy anti-researchers.

Title	META: If being civil is our most prominent rule then we should refrain from using Red Pill buzzwords and Blue Pill mockery.
Author	[deleted]
Upvotes	13
Comments	151
Date	August 14, 2016 7:28 PM UTC (9 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/PurplePillDebate
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