Calling someone a fascist for that is obviously a bit OTT but you’ve ignored the “do weird shit” part of the response so it wasn’t literally what you said. Taking the full response into account you can easily interpret it as “I don’t bother with mental maths but use a calculator instead, anyone who isn’t like me is weird as shit”
That is a bit thought police-y
Except as you demonstrated, it requires quite a few leaps of interpretation, assuming the worst interpretations of OP’s statement, which is why it’s silly. OP clearly limited their statement to themselves and AI.
Now if OP said, “everyone should use a calculator or die”, maybe then it would have been a valid response.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t ignore it, I just interpret it differently as in, “I don’t need to do this unusual stuff that people do without a calculator”. Calling something weird doesn’t necessarily mean it’s off-color or that it’s even a trait of the person. In my use case, weird just means unexpected or counterintuitive, and maybe complex enough that the person doesn’t bother with describing it properly. I know because I use it that way too. Weird doesn’t have to mean a third eye on your face every time.
I do want to mention that it’s not the first time I see a visceral reaction to a passing comment. I usually see this from marginalized groups, and I can assure you, both Kolanki and I are part of those too. And knowing his long comment history, I sincerely doubt his comment meant weird as in you’re weird as shit.