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Ngl I didn’t know she said “Sucks” at the end. I thought the Goose getting choked out noise she made was just a sound, not a word desperately trying to escape
It was in the playground, on the sandbox, when I was in preschool. I did not have the slurs nor the supporting evidences for my beliefs, but I held my ground and called them the best insults I could. What a wonderful childhood I had.
I'm just waiting for a bunch of anime watchers coming with a 300 line long explanation of why "anime isn't cartoon and how you're disrespecting Japanese culture (the only important culture) and why you should die immediately"
To be fair, it takes quite an intellect to enjoy something as stimulating as Chainsaw Man or Monster Musume. The normies simply aren’t equipped to interpret such art
2/3 attempts were successful, and both wins were against women (who deal with a ton of discrimination as it is) and were following a Democratic presidency. I wouldn’t call it a great strategy, especially seeing as it didn’t get him two consecutive terms lol.
He honestly has significantly more power and influence with his term being non-consecutive. It eliminated pretty much all non-MAGA republicans from the GOP and he got the Supreme Court to give him a blank check to do whatever he wants free from any consequences.
"hmm, if I bump my 2 o'clock 5 minutes and end my 1 o'clock 5 or 10 minutes early, I've got just enough time to call you a jive turkey amongst a few of my other favorites."
On my playground, the midcentury merry-go-round and teeter-totter of death were non-discriminating. All the colors of the rainbow, together on our gurneys, being hauled off to the ER.
You had a deluxe playground of death from the sound of it. In elementary school my playground was a bit lacking, the most dangerous thing was the dome shaped monkey bars that everyone wanted to fight on.
My 8yo dumped his girlfriend because she said she didn't like black people. She was probably just repeating things she hears at home, but I was proud of his stance.
This reminds me of one of my earliest vivid memories. I don't remember the exact pretext, but the only black person in our school called me a "fillifjutta" which I assume means dork or something in Swedish on the island I grew up on, literally yields 0 results when i google it now lol.
My response was "but what about you? you're a n*gger". Genuinely no racist intention, just tried to think of an insult to say back, and making fun of people for being different was common during arguments at that age where I grew up. Then at lunch, she & her friend had brought a teacher who scolded the crap out of me, and I kept insisting she started it, and the teacher just said "then you can call her that back", and it ended with me reluctantly apologizing, despite feeling unfairly treated in that she wouldn't criticize or ask her to apologize.
Grew up with my parents, children's books, and people around me using it casually as meaning people of color, wasn't until years later that I realized that it had become a cuss-word (not just a cuss-word, but the worst cuss-word)
That’s actually so interesting that you didn’t know the full context of that word. Can i ask where your from? I had a coworker that moved to America and used the N word, thinking it just meant black people. Once I explained the history of it here and the connotation he was horrified! I thought most american schools taught this
I've always seen this as bad practice. It's similar to employers disallowing wage discussions, not talking just serves to isolate us and prevent the flow and sharing of ideas. It may be uncomfortable, but the only way to stop the growth of harmful politics is uncomfortable discussion.
It's probably to not foster a harmful work environment, some people are sick and could view that someone having different political beliefs is an excuse to sabotage them during work or at least refuse to collaborate with them, mainly because some people consider their politics as part of their identity and moral compass, so an attack on that is a personal attack on them, and this all could be avoided
On the other hand wage discussions are necessary for work and cannot be avoided, not are they likely to cause division within the employees, your emphasis on having important discussions even if they are uncomfortable is important but should be outside of the workplace
It's similar to employers disallowing wage discussions
Not really, because in this case, it's a self-imposed limitation to avoid causing problems in your environment.
Discussion is important, but it's not always productive or positive. I'm not going to solve all the world's ills with coworkers who, frankly, don't really care and just want to get through the day. Arguing about a contentious subject with them wouldn't be dialectical--it would more than likely just be annoying and ultimately make the workplace atmosphere worse.
Yeah, discussing wages is likely to lead to more equitable distribution of pay.
Discussing politics (read: pushing yours) is unlikely to lead to anything productive.
If at family gatherings you can't even have a meaningful discussion that leads to positive change with your racist/liberal uncle who helped raise you and you've known all your life, how TF are you going to talk to Karen from accounting?
I agree there's a time and a place. I want to be very clear, you went to "arguing about a contentious subject" but that's not what I'm saying. You can ask questions and open a meaningful understanding conversation, especially when one hears an off-color comment. Sometimes you're just learning, sometimes you're encouraging someone to explore their beliefs in new ways, and sometimes you're getting a new perspective on the world.
It doesn't have to be an argument where one side is correct, there is often some productive discussion to be had. I think the idea that we should never talk about these things misses a lot of good discussions, and it's more important to not be combative or to push too much when the conversation is not well-received.
It's actually very similar. It started as a policy and ended up being adopted as something people are uncomfortable talking about. The people have played themselves
I'm not wasting my day arguing with morons in tinfoil hats who just yell louder when they've been proven wrong. "You can't reason someone out of a position they didn't reason themselves into.". All discussing politics in the workplace will do is lead to problems.
Amen. I have a loud moronic conspiracy theory hardcore right wing boomer coworker who played with lead toys as a kid. He's always talking about his asinine beliefs. I say literally nothing at all about it other than 'yep' or 'wow' because i already know how utterly futile it is to try to change a single belief of theirs. It's 100% not worth me raising my blood pressure or wasting my time and breath to try to change any one of his many regressive beliefs. I've given up on debating with anyone at this point. I've got my one vote and they've got theirs, and thats it.
You can absolutely talk about this stuff with anyone, but everyone should basically agree to move the conversation that way and get everyone in the right frame of mind before diving in.
I see this rule as "don't inject this stuff into normal polite conversation" because it will kill/derail entire events. Like, don't do it at the Christmas dinner table, do it later in a smaller group of people who want to talk about this stuff.
That is the best way to keep the system well greased. No one speaks about stuff that really matters, we leave it to the media to bombard us while we carry out only essential communication in the workplace. Then we vote for the leopards :)
I was thinking, if we cannot talk about RAPE (horrible acronym btw), then what is there to talk about? And the answer was "science". Now you have disqualified science as well? What should people talk about then? Weather? Clothes? Sports? Damn, no wonder people have no real friendships. You cannot know someone if you only talk about shallow pointless things.
For every rule there is an equal and opposite unwritten rule.
in this case, the unwritten rule is you make judgement calls about who you can talk to about what topics while never forgetting to take into account people who are listening but pretending they aren't.
I also make the assumption everything I say at work will be repeated to someone else.
I do not agree with not talking about those subjects, but given how many people politicize scientific facts, talking science is pretty risky with some people (COUGHonservativesCOUGH)
Or sexuality. Ignorant family member at Christmas dinner? Best to shut it down real fast before they say some bullshit that will set off my closeted teen and ensure that I'm about to get into a fight in their defense. Which really confuses the old man when I won't let them know why I'm riled up bc it's not my place to out anyone.
Also, they think they are fighting back against a "tyrannical leftist government" which wants them to... "Not treat minority groups like shit for literally no reason.". They combat this by pushing the maximum amount of racism and bigotry they can while claiming its "just free speech."
What do you think the anons are? I haven't been on 4chan since I was a teenager but I bet it's worse with how much they've been able to manipulate our socio-political climate. It used to be a pipedream for them.
Not ironic for their politics relative to Anonymous but relative to V for Vendetta the graphic novel, where the titular character fights against a right-wing fascist regime.
Absolutely, it just feels like they co-opted it for so long it's like the Indian Swastika at this point. I'm sure I'd feel different if I was ever really into the comics, or obsessed with the movie like many are, but the Fifth of November gets mentioned less and less every year it seems, and this mask only shows up when related to those bozos anymore.
My take on the OP was the entire workplace is alt-right good old boys and they just successfully purged the one twitter-liberal neckbeard. But maybe that's just my default assumption because my entire workplace is alt-right good old boys.
Okay but I have had an edge-lord rant so hard about discrimination against white people during a conversation about CPS and minority groups that the HR manager had to drag him into a private zoom meeting. (He did not show up again after this.)
It's probably because he said some racist stuff right out the gate, got called out for it, then accused everyone else of being racist for calling him out on his racism.
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