Drama Queen - Ch. 32 - Go to Hell pt. 3

[PhallusHydra]

This is the lamest backstory I can think of. what really sneds me is the commenters on mangaplus relating to it, like, "I too relate to vaguely disliking popular trends and being slightly detached from my peer-group". (???)

I don't get it. thats like one step removed from including a myers-briggs type in your bio. why are you reading Ambiguously Coded Racism The Manga Edition

The "these people are normal, I am genuinely the problem here" is the real test. Not a very popular sentiment in western culture. And rather interesting for Japan too because what do you mean you have a problem with normal decent people who aren't doing anything remotely evil to you at all?

 

[PhallusHydra]

No the point is everyone sucks

Or the kids in her class were just mean? You think every loner has autism? lmao

They're not mean, they're enforcing the bare minimum social boundary and backbone feels like shes being attacked, which is absurd. If she weren't a dysfunctional person shed join a literature club and meet people she can do her hypercritical shtick with and find some kind of balance.
But instead she has a persecution complex that she herself knows is absurd bs.

 

[SirBlizz]

They're not mean, they're enforcing the bare minimum social boundary and backbone feels like shes being attacked, which is absurd. If she weren't a dysfunctional person shed join a literature club and meet people she can do her hypercritical shtick with and find some kind of balance.
But instead she has a persecution complex that she herself knows is absurd bs.

You're the kind of person who shares those "Actually you were a freak and deserved the bullying" posts aren't you.

 

[PhallusHydra]

You're the kind of person who shares those "Actually you were a freak and deserved the bullying" posts aren't you.

I have an autism diagnosis, I'm saying this because this character is almost exactly like me. Why are those students obligated to want to hang out with backbone? Itd be one thing if they actually did something nasty, theyre just communicating that theyre getting annoyed. If I freaked out like that every time I got that kind of reaction id be perpetually miserable.
I would never diminish this type of sentiment if I heard it irl from a real person because I would assume they are exaggerating their faults. Those posts are dumb and I hate them.

 

[Mah_Buddy_Keith]

No the point is everyone sucks

Or the kids in her class were just mean? You think every loner has autism? lmao

Clearly, you have had Tylenol.

 

[MonsterGirlHusband]

why are you reading Ambiguously Coded Racism The Manga Edition

Because I am racist.

 

[Kanami-chan]

Backbone just doesn't like being patronized by all of her normal classmates

 

[solamente]

Because I am racist.

I think you're part of the third gen of racism though. like, ok here me out this is my taxonomy

• first gen: "Racist? I dunno what that means, I just own slaves"
• second gen: "Racist? No I'm just a normal white supremacist, thank you very much"
• third gen: "I'm consciously identifying as a racist in a sort of weird meta self-aware way but also as a provocational tactic to shortcircuit liberal discursive norms"

I'm not saying you're a poser or anything like that, it's more like ... suppose after reading this post you went "naw I'm totally a racist, I'll do a hate-crime to prove it" (or something else, I dunno).

It just seems like when Cartoon Network villains monologue about, idk, killing kittens or pushing old ladies onto the road, y'know? It's less about grappling with your own self-interest or strategizing in pursuit of goals so much as a form of negative reaffirmation (I'm evil, therefore I'll do something evil - what's something Good people think is evil? Oh, killing kittens definitely).

All I can say is, I don't really get the point of consciously identifying as racist. When you see Serbians talk about genociding Turkey and calling them cockroaches, everything else feels like cosplay like you feel me? They've got this kinda genuineness to them, that's rare in the first world. There's no hint of irony in what they say. There was this guy in my class who said he was gonna stockpile guns and do another Christchurch massacre, we kinda ignored him. But it got me thinking, guy could plot and plan his whole life but I don't think he'd come even close to shooting or bombing as many Muslims than Obama already did.