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『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️ (grey@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:45:12 JST

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@Titanbreakerkun @Alex1488 @WhitestTemplar @RealRaul FEELINGS OF INFERIORITY

By “feelings of inferiority” we mean not only inferiority feelings in the strict sense but a whole spectrum of related traits; low self-esteem, feelings of powerlessness, depressive tendencies, defeatism, guilt, self-hatred, etc. We argue that modern leftists tend to have some such feelings (possibly more or less repressed) and that these feelings are decisive in determining the direction of modern leftism.
When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights activists, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities and about anything that is said concerning minorities. The terms “negro”, “oriental”, “handicapped” or “chick” for an African, an Asian, a disabled person or a woman originally had no derogatory connotation. “Broad” and “chick” were merely the feminine equivalents of “guy”, “dude” or “fellow”. The negative connotations have been attached to these terms by the activists themselves. Some animal rights activists have gone so far as to reject the word “pet” and insist on its replacement by “animal companion”. Leftish anthropologists go to great lengths to avoid saying anything about primitive peoples that could conceivably be interpreted as negative. They want to replace the word “primitive” by “nonliterate”. They seem almost paranoid about anything that might suggest that any primitive culture is inferior to our own. (We do not mean to imply that primitive cultures are inferior to ours. We merely point out the hyper sensitivity of leftish anthropologists.)
Those who are most sensitive about “politically incorrect” terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any “oppressed” group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual white males from middle- to upper-middle-class families.
Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians), repellent (homosexuals) or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel that these groups are inferior. They would never admit to themselves that they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not mean to suggest that women, Indians, etc. are inferior; we are only making a point about leftist psychology.)
Feminists are desperately anxious to prove that women are as strong and as capable as men. Clearly they are nagged by a fear that women may not be as strong and as capable as men.
Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They say they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he grudgingly admits that they exist; whereas he enthusiastically points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist’s real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.

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Titanbreaker-kun (titanbreakerkun@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:45:13 JST

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@Alex1488 @WhitestTemplar @RealRaul >Khadgar in a floating wheelchair
>it floats so it doesn't need wheels
>it does not need to look like a wheelchair
>not a construct of magic that can be anything
>not a mechanical throne
>not a mech
>not a special mount
>not force his legs to move with magic
>not mechanical prosthetics
>not magical prosthetics
>not limb grafting
>not a dragon companion to carry him
>not an artifact to ride
>not an elemental companion to carry him

A fucking. floating. wheelchair.

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:windmill_of_friendship:Alex1488:windmill_of_friendship: (alex1488@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:45:14 JST

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@WhitestTemplar @RealRaul World of Warcraft is doing the same thing recently, making at least two important lore characters disabled one way or another, with one of them having a very silly, convoluted reason as to why she doesn't have an arm (and doesn't just get a new magical prosthetic or literally just get it healed), while the other seemingly have no explanation for suddenly being in a fucking magic wheelchair (yes, magic wheelchair that is made out of arcane magics, is purple, and floats).

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WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:45:15 JST

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@RealRaul We referring to this:

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WhitestTemplar (whitesttemplar@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 26-Oct-2025 16:45:15 JST

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@RealRaul If so it's because in DnD it makes no fucking sense as magic exists and healing is a service the religion of choice would provide freely. The only reason a wheelchair would even exist in any form is to get the newly paralyzed person to a healer who will then fix them up good as new.

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