Aria Ritz Finkelstein

UGH this is really gross. I think, maybe, on the bright side, even as bs like this has been proliferating all over for the last few days, the attention to TS is also teaching a lot of ppl about it, namely that *this* is not what it is.

Ooh! Not xtian, never had an advent calendar! Maybe the trick is to slip a treat in each compartment along with the boring stuff. New thing for me to try! 😆

Please say more about how you make it not the most painfully tedious task of the week. I wanna know about this "fun."

I see. You'll excuse me now, I need to go tend to my space lasers--I don't have the newest model yet so their battery life is pretty low.

Are you claiming to not know the difference between Zionists and reservists?

It is not a post about Israeli reservists living in New York. It is about the supposed dual loyalty of American Jews. It is much louder than a dogwhistle. It's a very obviously antisemitic accusation.

Did it do the work faster/better than you would have on your own? When I've messed with it I've generally found that keeping it on track or correcting it takes more work than if I had gone ahead without its "help."

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Idk from this convo if this is in good faith or not, but I'll assume it is. It's a Hebrew word that means "nations" or "people." In the Bible, sometimes it refers to the Jewish people, but more commonly it just means non-Jewish peoples. Anti-semitic dogwhistle when non-Jews use it like this.

Huh, not sure what I was responding to but somehow this got me blocked 🤷‍♀️

"Einstein does the busywork so you don't have to?" All of a sudden I don't know what's NOT busywork anymore...

Black people with coprolalia from TS do often shout slurs. This tiktok is making the rounds, so maybe you've already seen it, but it's worth watching if not. bsky.app/profile/asht...

oh no, now that you've linked it I have to read it. thanks a lot.

ugh, not to kink-shame or whatever

thinly. thinly???

Part of the fun of academia is spending time in conversation with others before you. Hanging out with your friends is different than getting a quick synopsis of what they did without you.

Not exactly the same post, but it's here, not *there* 🤪 bsky.app/profile/merc...

Very much so! I'm hard pressed to think of a better one, but I expect someone with a better imagination than mine can offer one that makes the situation easier to work through.

I agree, that's why I offered an example of bodily harm as well--also far from perfect, but I think few enough of us understand TS coprolalia that trying to find an analogy we might understand better with can be helpful.

Maybe a better analogy is you hit them in the face while you're seizing. Do what you can to make it up to them--pay med expenses, etc.--while everyone realizes it was involuntary.

I don't have a problem with an apology. It's not a perfect equivalent, but e.g. you have a tonic-clonic seizure and bleed on someone's stuff, it's on you to clean or replace it if you can. Now, it's also generous of the owner of the stuff not to require you to if they can.

Do you know why intermediate is worse?

In this regard, there's at least one study (I'm sorry, I don't have my hands on it) finding that white ppl with TS are likelier to use racial slurs when they're in mixed groups.

I'm not sure an override is the way to put it--that implies that you don't say it usually only because you're suppressing it--but there's definitely a similarity to what you're describing in that the taboo things that come out with coprolalia do so exactly because they're taboo.

I'm so sorry you have to deal with this. And glad that you have techniques for at least managing it a little bit. Thanks for sharing. This study is fascinating!

I see, thanks. I don't know enough about intrusive thoughts to know how they do or don't compare to TS coprolalia, so the conversation's instructive!

Can you share how you excised them?

Certainly making *A* point about cultural context, but I think we're making inverse ones 🙃

OK, that's what I thought you were saying. For clarification, TS coprolalia can bring on a whole host of other slurs depending on the cultural context of the utterer.

Is what you're saying that it's important to understand why one is in use today as a pejorative while the other isn't as widely so?