Do You Have RP Pet Peeves?

[TokyoPewPew]

I also find it a little ironic tbh considering in your original post you're the one that seems to treat race as an aesthetic with the whole "Aladdinland" bs, which literally reduces being Middle Eastern to an aesthetic fyi.

@Qia

I need help understanding how confronting and mocking this pattern of behavior, per the conceit of this thread, is actually endorsing and perpetuating it.

[Qia]

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I need help understanding how confronting and mocking this pattern of behavior, per the conceit of this thread, is actually endorsing and perpetuating it.

@TokyoPewPew

The issue isn’t that you’re mocking the trope. That part is completely fair. It’s that "Aladdinland" also flattens Middle Eastern inspiration into a punchline while accusing others of doing that exact thing. That’s what I was responding to. You weren’t endorsing the trope, but the phrasing definitely leaned into the same reduction, which is why your reading of my comment felt like a big double standard.

[TokyoPewPew]

Yes..... the behavior that's annoying and gross and worthy of lampooning. The one whose ridiculousness I set out to accentuate, on purpose. Yes, I used a low-effort meme in tandem with this highly advanced, sophisticated technique called "slight exaggeration" to mock it. Kudos for noticing the reductionist joke-post was, in fact, reductive.

[Qia]

Got it. Your tone makes more sense now. Just understand that my comment was never defending the trope you’re mocking, only pointing out that your reply assumed I’d made an argument I didn’t make. I clarified my meaning, you clarified yours. That’s about all there is to it for me.