I told you guys to read his other posts
https://www.resetera.com/posts/13924700/
I did actually, and you would know if you read my comment properly Which is why i wrote up my opinion and explanation and explained about the Smack and how it pertains and such. It seems you read my comment too quickly and responded as such.
So no he is not talking about spankings. So unless anyone wants to argue that smacking your children in the face repeatedly isn't child abuse the guy is defending child abuse. So i wanna know if you all think its warranted or not. Because you guys are always quick to pile on Era for banning people, but in this case its pretty obvious that its warranted. I just wanted to know whether or not you would would agree with it or not. Because I figured supporting child abuse was something that everyone could agree is a bannable offense.
Please do not use any ad populums.
Now that the user is banned, ill happily invite you to read my post again and elaborate on it.
To be blunt i had not heard of it either (Or atleast the details of it) and i looked it up to today, so its funny that you mention it. I like the visual rendition of the meme and the explanation that comes forth with it: Essentially a visual representation for people who do not think for themselves and adher to overreactions. Which is a spot on metric for
a lot of ERA posts.
The fact people call it
dehumanizing is a perfect example of the NPC meme: By overreacting like that, they give that meme exactly the fuel that it needs to have.
Despite that, i can actually understand
why it recieves this naming: By essentially bringing people with a wild variety of opinions down to an anonymous and nameless
sheep you are removing all characteristics of someone's personality in favor of a more uniformed herd/hivemind. I think that part of the meme is
dismissive and unjust.
However, a good meme makes you laugh in lieu of
obvious satire. The NPC meme is on the onset ridicoulous and
obvious, thus the meme makes people laugh. It certainly gave me a chuckle.
And this is why ERAdians are giving the meme fuel - They are not aware of the
obvious satirical nature of the meme and take it
personally. Which, in this case, only makes the meme even better: The cluelessness of the people to which this meme is targetted towards to only serves to boost the hilarity (not Hilary factor mind you) factor of said meme.
I mean this is funny:
People who do not get the
obviousness of the joke often do not get the
butt of many jokes either and lack humor themselves.
For reference, this is what ERA themselves considers
funny (And the jokes itself are genderneutral, which helps!):
Atleast you can't vilify them for having a sense of irony:
EDIT LOL: I even posted in that particular thread and i threw in this clip below in order to summarize ERA best. By the great Sunhilegend.
Mind you, this was Oct 27, 2017, back in the day ERA truly showed great potential.