On my limited amount of years I've experienced extreme amounts of name-calling, on a wide scale. Some of it is pretty mild, like loser to increasingly stronger phrases such as "fag" (I'm straight) or the typical leftist jargon of racist/bigot/homophobic/transphobic/nazi/fascist terms. I'm not and typically do my best to include. There are some pretty downright specific ones too, most of which would flag some sirens for authority but one of the more interesting ones was "jewish nazi".

I've been called enough things that most people would seek help for this constant abuse, but I intentionally don't. I do this because I simply do not care. I don't give a multidimensional cheese sandwich about how people act, do, or say to me. Part of this is likely a lack of self respect or empathy but it mainly revolves around understanding that it doesn't matter. It doesn't effect or change anything if I try to shut it down. It usually doesn't work. There's this twinge of irony of acceptance and equality when you shut down people who don't agree with you and that is exactly the problem with this overly sensitive culture of "we must do no harm to anyone because their feelings may be a little sad." Here's the truth that anyone who actually knows about people would say: The world is not nice. It doesn't bend to your will and gives no multidimensional cheese sandwiches about how you feel and if your feelings are hurt.

I'm a fair person and try to hear every side of a story. Free speech (quickly being censored) is a high example of why people should be able to insult me. I want to find out why they can think such incorrect statements about me, usually to little avail, but it still creates an open, diverse, and tolerant atmosphere to other ideas. Seems ironic that people try to censor this concept of removing harmed feelings.



If you're being name-called like myself, the best course of action in my opinion is to simply realize nobody else's opinion on yourself matters, and understand the foe, not banish them