Honestly, I worry much more that my actions are inadvertently HURTING people than inadvertently helping them.

That's how "cuck" is often used, against white people whose actions help non-white people. It's calling someone pathetic and not manly because they aren't protecting "what's theirs" and instead inadvertently letting "lesser" people enjoy the fruits of their labors.

No, a meaningless and off-target insult won't hurt, ever.

Yes, but they don't associate manliness with whatever idiocy the alt-right thinks they should be doing.

"Cuck can and should be used in situations where a person is unaware that their devotion of time/resources to something benefit others."

It doesn't work, though; most people have never heard the word, and most of the people who have either use it or find it bewildering. It just doesn't do what you're saying it does.

My point is that basing an insult on the fact that the person doesn't share your values is uniquely ineffective at actually hurting anyone's feelings, because it doesn't hurt to not live up to values you don't hold.

Yeah, but Masta Killa is actually pretty good… or at least interesting. His rhyme schemes and meters are all over the place; it doesn't always work, but he's way more distinctive than he gets credit for.

I dunno. Every context I hear it, the receiver of the insult is supposed to be manlier in a particular way. "You're a cuck if you don't want a wall to keep out immigrants!!" Most people against a wall would not think manliness has anything to do with a wall, or they would think it was stupid to be manly in that…

If I don't think it's belittling to not be masculine, then I am likely to act in such a way that a person would call me a cuck. I also would not be particularly insulted by someone calling me a cuck.

Yes, I know. That's what I meant by "traditional masculine ideals."

Because the word insults men who don't hold up traditional masculine ideals or white superiority. But those people also don't VALUE traditional masculine ideals or white superiority, so they don't particularly care about violating them as standards.

Cuck is one of the most bizarre insults I've ever heard, because it wouldn't insult anyone it'd be used against.

You're merging together two stories. The voting experts are urging her to challenge the results because cyber-security experts think they're suspicious.

I don't know what you mean by "embracing"… I think about it as just tolerance.

It's a scientific fact that the word "gender" has a particular definition?

"And it's not just a direct attack; it's the general sense that an opinion on an issue that affects white men and any other demographic is inherently more valid if it originates from the latter."

Liberals talk about this stuff all the time… where do you think all the gender options even came from?

"Anyway, one of the things I learned about this election is that people are super-aware and super-sensitive about any disparagement of something they identify as…other people, not so much."

What I hear is "White people shouldn't dominate the conversation here," followed by a million white people interpreting that as "you don't have a voice here" and flipping out.