Hey folks.

Using mixed capitalized/uncapitalized letters to mock a point is super ableist and possibly classist.

If you can& #39;t ridicule bigotry without resorting to bigotry like that, you need to work on yourself a LOT.
For that to operate as a way of doing ridicule, you have to believe that being illiterate or not super educated (thus, unfamiliar with the conventions of capitalizing letters) == bad/wrong.

You know who this catches?
Folks who are uneducated, folks who have learning disabilities, folks who are cognitively disabled, folks who don& #39;t speak/write English or any language with this alphabet.

None of whom are by definition hateful, facile, shallow, unaware, or deserving of such hate.
I& #39;m tired of seeing people like

"i aM sUpErIOr--" -- no, you know what, you& #39;re not. You& #39;re doing a bigotry in service of whatever your point is.

I get it& #39;s hard to notice, I get we& #39;re all learning, but please for the sake of something that& #39;s important to you, knock it off.
Also, the other group it catches is language learners, many many many of whom are children.

At everyone& #39;s peril do you infantilize fascists, folks. They& #39;re not cute little kids and they& #39;re not untutored in the ways of the world.

But it helps them if you think they are.
I eagerly await all the trolls who are mad about this thread.

inb4 with:
- using the format I called out to respond to me
- all versions of & #39;no Katherine you just have an ableist mind& #39;
- you can& #39;t make me
- freeze peach
You know what, folks, I don& #39;t really care if it& #39;s from a cartoon that did not originally intend it in that way.

There are many reasons why it doesn& #39;t matter; if it bothers you then feel free to unfollow, block, mute as you prefer--I didn& #39;t @ you, so this really isn& #39;t personal.
You look at the original cartoon meme image, and if you wanna try to tell me it& #39;s not punching straight down HARD at cognitively disabled people then instead why not go block me because you have no defensible position and deserve no quarter.
Couple more things

1 "the original" sponge bob included no text, so although the image is Problematic the text is not canon (thanks to someone who told me this)
2 the switch-case text is hard to read
3 it is classist, not "possibly" so. I was thinking through it while I typed.
In conclusion, I am muting this entire thread, so for those of you who HATE that I said this and MUST tell me about it, your activation energy for sharing your feels is now higher.

Be careful out there, everyone. Today is a hard day.
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