A matter of principles.

[joss_phaux]

Probably everyone that I hold a friendship with, at some point, will have accused me of being too much of a hard-ass, for want of a better word, at some point. A pedant, an idealist, an argumentative, black-and-white-seeing son of a bitch, but I stand by my convictions

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[flye]

"What you are is someone who is able to recognise harmful, indentured stereotypes about people, but yet somehow, fail to see how laughing at people and their issues; regardless of whether it is gender, sexual orientation, race, or, as was disgustingly shown today, mental ability and health, is harmful."

THIS is the crux of the issue. These people are smart enough that they should realise what their behaviour means, but instead write it off as being facetious or post-racial. We don't live in a post-racial, post-misogynist, post-x world. People are still discriminated against based on many things and to blithely carry on those stereotypes for the sake of humour is plain ignorance.

[joss_phaux]

Exactly. How I choose to deal with it is another thing and it may not be right, but it's what works for me at the present.

[hipikat]

My plan is to make everyone around me a better person [i.e. more like me] through a war of social attrition.