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46 points

That’s an oddly transphobic/intersexphobic way to express a criticism of semicolons…

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“If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other … you’re a liberal. If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative. What could be simpler?”

-Kurt Vonnegut

Yeah it looks like the dude had some issues to say the least…

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That’s not his views… that’s from an essay where he’s parodying the mainstream ultrasimplification of political alignment.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/cold-turkey

You left out some language that I think clears up his ironic tone:

If you want to take my guns away from me, and you’re all for murdering fetuses, and love it when homosexuals marry each other, and want to give them kitchen appliances at their showers, and you’re for the poor, you’re a liberal.

If you are against those perversions and for the rich, you’re a conservative.

What could be simpler?

Totally changes it, doesn’t it?

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Oh, interesting. To be fair, Wikipedia left it out (not me), I was actually trying to check if the dude was a bigot or just 200iq ironic.

Still not convinced it’s the latter though.

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To me it felt like they implied going to college is a bad thing. I didn’t expect them to have a shred of metacognition after that.

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He was born in 1922, so that’s not really surprising. Almost no one born that long ago wouldn’t have those bigotries.

I’m not trying excusing it. I’m just not surprised.

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