In topic: "The Homestuck fandom has a bit of Nazi Joke problem."

Thursday, August 14th, 2025, 10:44 PM23 days ago

i could have sworn i remember "x did nothing wrong" originated elsewhere before the nazi version of the joke existed? i cant find a source for this though, but I could have sworn i heard that was the case. even if this is the case, its a generic enough phrase that i feel like people trying to draw that association back make it feel like there's a bit of an eagerness to problematize. it also could be likely that vriska did nothing wrong sprung up independently of the other usage of the phrase.

it reminds me of when people get up in arms about the use of "gay panic" to refer to someone being gay and flustered, because it shares a similarity to "gay/trans panic defense" (a legal defense of "oh its ok because the killer was so caught off guard by the fact that the victim was gay/trans that they killed them", which is obviously very ghoulish) when its Highly unlikely that the former has anything to do with the latter and were likely coined independently with no relation to each other. it feels like people are trying to take a thing that's mostly normal and harmless and go "don't you know that's actually Bad because History?" as a thought terminating cliche.

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