I think it’s fine to make fun of someones appearance.
Copying my other comment:
Because people don’t give a fuck what some anonymous person thinks about their opinions especially because there’s always gonna be people disagreeing with you. the implication of “youre ugly” is “the people who know you think you’re ugly” which hits much closer to home than “people you know think your opinions suck”
Good point, “the people who know you think you’re ugly” has a way greater impact than “people you know think your opinions suck”, especially since chuds tend to care a lot for physical appearance.
I’d advise caution in insulting someone’s appearance though. Using it against working class people without class consciousness could turn them against the left, depending on how sensitive they are; and in the wrong social context the one making the insult could make themselves look like an idiot or buffoon.
Because people don’t give a fuck what some anonymous person thinks about their opinions especially because there’s always gonna be people disagreeing with you. the implication of “youre ugly” is “the people who know you think you’re ugly” which hits much closer to home than “people you know think your opinions suck”
That happens all the time everywhere. If you don’t look ugly than maybe the way you speak will be attacked. If not that then other things like being an air-headed prettyboy or bimbo who doesn’t know anything.
Psychology is aware of this and calls it The Halo Effect.
“The halo effect is the tendency to make sweeping generalizations about people based on appearance traits.”
Ngl, this is something I’ve had to put effort into unlearning, like ableism.
There is a general feeling almost all people in America (likely the West et al) where if somebody crosses a boundary, you have the moral highground to to dehumanize them. Everyone has their own different line. Chuds and liberals of course base their threshholds off of stupid shit like “you did a crime, now you deserve the punishment.” “Trump’s mouth is Putin’s cockholster.”
American leftists have this problem as well, where once we know somebody is “bad” then it’s no holds barred on what you’re allowed to say about them. That’s how the Vaushes and such form, where racist and sexism is not only logical but moral if you are doing it to a “bad person.”
I don’t know exactly how to stop it, because there are evil capitalist scum out there. But when our “responding in kind” veers into racism, sexism, ableism, etc. then it’s something we need to stop.
