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What are the taboo subjects? (leminal.space)

submitted 3 days ago by infinite_ass@leminal.space to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The subjects that you can't even bring up without getting downvoted, banned, fired, expelled, cancelled etc.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago

Marxism, depending on the audience.

[–] LouNeko@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

With women, bathroom talk. With the boys we always talk about shit and piss and crack each other up. But mention anything related to that around a girl, she'll look at you as if you killed her dog.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Israel

Men’s rights

Boys being left behind in school

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Men's rights to do what?

[–] Analog@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Report being raped without being laughed at.

[–] hightrix@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

Family court. Prison time. Homeless assistance. Failing education rates for boys. And on and on.

There’s a huge amount of topics in “men’s rights”

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 2 days ago

You first!

[–] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anything veganism (positive)

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[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel like I’m not good with words, so when I criticize popular things like Baldur’s gate 3 or Witcher 3 I usually get downvoted

[–] KuraiWolfGaming@pawb.social 4 points 1 day ago

That's how I feel with nearly any online conversation. I'm on the spectrum and have social anxiety. Not a fun combo for trying to be understood when being critical about anything really. Let alone someone's favourite game.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

People put BG3 on a massive pedestal and any sort of valid complaint around launch was heavily downvoted. It's not quite as bad now, thank god. I got gaslit so much. Everything was my fault supposedly, not their perfect, polished game.

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[–] horse_tranquilizers@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Kernel contributions

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

gun rights

[–] _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it though? As long as one is relatively reasonable. There's even gun communities here, even if they're pretty dead at the moment. Time for me to come up with some memes maybe.

[–] random@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I guess so, it's just that if I say I support the right to own a gun, I get downvoted in most communities

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, in heavily left-wing spaces guns give people the wigglies. Even if it's not rights, the general fact we live in a world with them is something people try to memory hole.

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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Try talking about Return to Office around the workplace and watch everyone get quiet real quick

[+] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Eugenics is the single stupidest idea in human history. To advocate for it now is to deny biology and history.

It relies on the same misunderstanding of evolution that underpins 'great replacement theory'.

[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

The only place with eugenics in human history is agriculture. There were many genocides done using eugenics as an excuse with no clue of genetics, and you blame eugenics instead of the murderers.

We have gene editing now, so it's only a matter of cost when parents start customising their babies, which is a good thing because human variability will increase, making us as a species more resistant to unknown threats.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

The funny thing is that a lot of those problems are better attributed to society/culture/education than genetics or biology, since it's people that vote/support other people. Unless you can somehow breed out psychopaths, and whatever makes people willing to sacrifice the collective for personal gain, from the human species, eugenics won't do shit.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Eugenics isn't a stupid idea on the face of it, but then you look at where our dog breeding has gone...

The good news is that humans are pretty adaptable already. The only things that really definitely could sink us are our inability to react to very abstract, gradual problems and our tribalism.

[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without dog breeding, dogs would be still be wolves.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's pretty unclear how much of the breeding 30000BC-1500AD was deliberate, and how much was just a kind of selection as people decided to eat their naughtiest dog when famine came. I'm talking about the highly-targeted breeding that brought us the pug unable to breath and German shepherds with back legs that stick out wrong because it looks cool.

Also, wolves are pretty good at what they do, I'm not sure it's fair to say they're worse than dogs somehow.

[–] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Breeding unhealthy dogs could be called dysgenics. It's like breeding better slaves instead of better humans.

Wolves are good, evolution worked. Pet dogs are extra lives producing added value to themselves and their owners.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, well what I'm saying is we'd do that to ourselves too; we're not to be trusted with our own biology. Not yet, at least.

[–] Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Eugenicists are the only people who should be barred from reproduction tbh

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

I agree with you but only on Eugenics being automatically downvoted. Look, I did it!

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago

The assignment was to state a topic. Not advocate for it.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Apparently asking what people are going to do to relax after voting must be taboo, because my post got deleted without me being told why.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Did you look at the modlog? They're open here.

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[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 14 points 2 days ago (12 children)

The left lane, and how no, it's not for going as fast as you want to drive.

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