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Morlock-Holmes: “[T]here just aren’t that many places where right-wing assholes can assume that much social capital. The alt-right nitwit who likes to throw cuck around like an insult isn’t usually in a position where he can expect the social structure to rally around him like that.

“He might call you a cuck, but he’s not going to go, “Geeze, can you believe another cuck tried to start a conversation with us? *eyeroll gif*” outside of a few internet hot-houses, because people aren’t going to agree with him and he’ll look like a weirdo.” Source: https://morlock-holmes.tumblr.com/post/181914401380/psa-more-than-membership-in-the-stem-fields-more

My response: it’s called Know Your Meme, and it’s a hellhole.

Looking at some books in the library

Huh. This looks like an interesting series, but I’m a little wary of a middle-aged divorced alcoholic with antisocial tendencies as the superhuman hero who saves the world. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, but these stories have certain tendencies . . .

Two good reviews in a row. Sounds promising. I’ll read one more for luck.

“Dave is a cad throughout the book who rarely taps into his education despite earning multiple college degrees. He easily leans into sexist and racial stereotypes, fixates on one person’s physical disability of a missing limb, and needlessly slings homophobic slurs making it clear that gay = bad. None of these assumptions are challenged by a single character in the book, making the story cringe-worthy quite often. Dave’s views essentially equal the book’s views with nobody calling him out for being unlikable, wrong-headed or even a deadbeat father.”

Called it! Why are these books always like this?