I hate the word ‘Consumer’ or I mockingly call it ‘CONSOOMER’. Because that’s to imply everyone in the world is just cattle, but with wallets. We’re no longer customers. We’re consumers now. And a consumer’s purpose is to consume shit, whatever is put out there. Got money? Shut up and consume, it’s what corporate interests and capitalism itself thrive on. Consume and consume.

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    I don’t like the casual use of the word “hate”

    Maybe it’s just me but hate is quite an extreme emotion. It basically means you want something killed/destroyed. I know people don’t often really hate the thing they claim to hate but I’m far enough on the spectrum to not take words literally.

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      1 year ago

      I think it’s problematic when used in political contexts. Complex societal problems, like racism etc., are reduced to a feeling, thereby ignoring all the wider implications, histories and contexts while also reducing it to a mere individual problem.