Generation Wuss and related crap
09-17-2018, 01:09 PM
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yeah, but the article is so lol:
https://www.peta.org/living/food/why...%20Eat%20Tweet
https://www.peta.org/living/food/why...%20Eat%20Tweet
As feminists, we’re working to put more women in office and in corner offices. We fight for equal pay, tax-free feminine hygiene products, an end to sexual harassment, funding for women’s sports, and streets safe enough for us to walk alone. We push for strong role models who don’t objectify women on television and in movies. We work to end sex trafficking, slavery, genital mutilation, and “honor killings.” We rail against sexism in all its many forms—except, perhaps, when it comes to what’s on our plates.
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Contrary to popular belief, female cows produce milk only when they’re pregnant or nursing. They make milk for the same reason that human women do: to feed their babies. Cows who are imprisoned on dairy farms are forcibly impregnated through artificial insemination again and again on rape racks. Rape racks. All for your milk, cheese, and yogurt.
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Contrary to popular belief, female cows produce milk only when they’re pregnant or nursing. They make milk for the same reason that human women do: to feed their babies. Cows who are imprisoned on dairy farms are forcibly impregnated through artificial insemination again and again on rape racks. Rape racks. All for your milk, cheese, and yogurt.
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09-17-2018, 01:10 PM
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Cheese packaging is also sexist.
By Hilary Hanson
Someone wrote in to Jezebel this week with an irritating observation about Galbani string cheese.
“The 3 types of full fat cheese each have a different ‘boy’ string cheese cartoon character, but the low fat cheese character has been drawn as a girl,” the anonymous tipster wrote. “Wouldn’t have noticed it at all except my 5yo daughter excitedly pointed it out and asked if we could get the ‘girl cheese.’”
The tipster provided a photo, which matches up with the images of the cheese on the Galbani website — all their string cheese and “snack cheese” products have a stereotypically male-looking cheese character, while the reduced-fat versions have a lady cheese person.
GALBANIConsumerist points out this issue isn’t limited to Galbani — the site wrote about a similar issue with Lucerne-brand cheese in 2014. Neither brand immediately returned a request for comment from The Huffington Post.
Is the packaging on these cheeses the end of the world? No. But it’s indicative of bigger problems with the gendered ways that many people view food. Advertisers often market low-calorie or stereotypically “healthy” food directly to women, while presenting meat-centric food products as “manly” or macho. (Think Hungry-Man frozen dinners, which actually bear the slogan “Eat like a man.”)
A 2014 study suggested that gendered perceptions of food are so ingrained in our minds, people actually think food tastes worse when it comes in mixed-gender packaging. And another study in 2012 found that people see meat as more “masculine” than vegetables.
These kinds of associations not only reinforce the harmful idea that women should always be dieting, watching their weight, or otherwise depriving themselves, but they may also discourage men from making healthier food choices — or prevent them from considering plant-based diets that are beneficial to animals and the environment.
So really, eat the food that’s right for you personally. And remember that you don’t have to let a little cheese person boss you around.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0ffe6f8e9484b
This String Cheese Packaging Is Oddly Sexist
“Reduced fat” should not make a food more feminine.By Hilary Hanson
Someone wrote in to Jezebel this week with an irritating observation about Galbani string cheese.
“The 3 types of full fat cheese each have a different ‘boy’ string cheese cartoon character, but the low fat cheese character has been drawn as a girl,” the anonymous tipster wrote. “Wouldn’t have noticed it at all except my 5yo daughter excitedly pointed it out and asked if we could get the ‘girl cheese.’”
The tipster provided a photo, which matches up with the images of the cheese on the Galbani website — all their string cheese and “snack cheese” products have a stereotypically male-looking cheese character, while the reduced-fat versions have a lady cheese person.
GALBANIConsumerist points out this issue isn’t limited to Galbani — the site wrote about a similar issue with Lucerne-brand cheese in 2014. Neither brand immediately returned a request for comment from The Huffington Post.
Is the packaging on these cheeses the end of the world? No. But it’s indicative of bigger problems with the gendered ways that many people view food. Advertisers often market low-calorie or stereotypically “healthy” food directly to women, while presenting meat-centric food products as “manly” or macho. (Think Hungry-Man frozen dinners, which actually bear the slogan “Eat like a man.”)
A 2014 study suggested that gendered perceptions of food are so ingrained in our minds, people actually think food tastes worse when it comes in mixed-gender packaging. And another study in 2012 found that people see meat as more “masculine” than vegetables.
These kinds of associations not only reinforce the harmful idea that women should always be dieting, watching their weight, or otherwise depriving themselves, but they may also discourage men from making healthier food choices — or prevent them from considering plant-based diets that are beneficial to animals and the environment.
So really, eat the food that’s right for you personally. And remember that you don’t have to let a little cheese person boss you around.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...b0ffe6f8e9484b
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09-17-2018, 01:12 PM
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Why is nobody furious that Hillary Hanson is assuming the cheeses' gender? Did she stop to that maybe she should ask the little cartoon cheese persons how they identify?
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09-17-2018, 11:29 PM
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Damn white people and their...
(Scatters tea leaves on the ground)
Birth Certificates.
Birth certificates have always been a weapon for white supremacists
Policing the color line through vital documents.
By Susan Pearson
September 11
The Trump administration’s decision to revive and expand the Bush and Obama-era practice of denying U.S. passports to Latinos born in South Texas should come as no surprise. From his assault on Barack Obama’s citizenship to his allegations that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists to his promise to institute a Muslim ban, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes the only true Americans are white.
But long before Trump rode to prominence promoting birtherism, birth certificates were an important instrument for policing the racial boundaries of citizenship. In the Jim Crow era, states used these seemingly innocuous public records to ensure that the rights of citizenship were accessible to white Americans — and no one else.
The best example of this comes from the career of Walter Plecker. Plecker, the state registrar of vital statistics in Virginia from 1912 to 1946, worked with the white-supremacist Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America to persuade the state legislature to pass the 1924 Racial Integrity Act.
The act not only forbade marriage between any white person and any “colored” person, but also defined a person as white only if they had “no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian.” The law also made it a felony to falsely register a person’s race on a birth, death or marriage certificate. This law would later be overturned by the landmark 1967 Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia. But for nearly a half-century, it was the law of the land in Virginia.
Plecker was obsessed with white racial purity, a cause he clearly connected to his belief that the United States was a white man’s country. In a 1924 speech before the American Public Health Association, Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of North America, they came “to found a civilization of the highest type, not to mix their blood with the savages of the land, not to originate a mongrel population.” The fatal error, he believed, was made in 1619 when the Dutch introduced African slaves to North America. “The problem was not slavery,” he told his audience, “but the presence of the negro in what should be a white man’s land.”
For his part, Plecker dreamed of the day when all the descendants of Africans in the United States would return to Africa. He wanted to make America great again — 1618 great.
Barring that, however, he believed that legislation such as the Racial Integrity Act — combined with proper use of registration documents such as birth certificates — could prevent “amalgamation” and the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization. White Americans had to be on guard, Plecker explained, because the “mongrel” offspring of racial intermixture would try to pass themselves off as white and have their children registered as white on their birth certificates. They would, in effect, make an illegal border crossing.
Plecker’s office made his opinions official state policy. He and his clerks policed the boundaries of race, scrutinizing birth, death and marriage certificates for what they considered to be fraudulent attempts to pass as white or Native American (anyone having 1/16 or less of Indian ancestry was allowed to marry a white person). Plecker identified several Virginia counties that he believed were home to large “mixed blood” populations and assembled a list of surnames from suspect families.
Like the State Department today, Plecker considered births attended by midwives in these areas as particularly dubious. Whenever a baby from a suspect family on his list was registered for a birth certificate, Plecker flagged the certificate. He wrote to doctors, midwives and parents demanding they provide proof that the family had no “negro” blood.
In one letter to a midwife in 1924, Plecker warned that she had signed a birth certificate for a “white” baby from a family he considered “mixed.” He wanted her to provide more information about the baby’s ancestry. “These people are mixed and can’t be listed as white,” he admonished. “Even though he [the father] may be white in appearance, if he has any mixture of negro blood . . . he cannot be classified as white . . . Neither can his child be considered as white.”
Plecker reminded birth attendants that falsifying race on a birth certificate was punishable with jail time. He withheld birth certificates until parents or birth attendants, or the registered people themselves, agreed to “correct” their race, a process that always moved in one direction: from “white” to “colored.” If a person refused to agree to reclassification, or if the birth had been registered before the RIA took effect, Plecker issued the certificate with a note appended to the back, explaining that, according to his office, the person was not really white.
Virginia’s use of birth certificates to police racial purity had severe consequences. Plecker’s office corresponded with schools, hospitals, welfare agencies and other government entities to provide guidance about how to classify individuals so they could enforce state-sanctioned segregation. Though being re-classed from white to colored did not transform citizens into foreigners, as Trump’s passport denials threaten to do, it did transform them into second-class citizens. When access to employment, schools, marriage, voting, public accommodations, military service, jury duty and more could all be restricted by race, as was the case in the Jim Crow era, Plecker’s use of vital registration turned thousands of Americans into strangers in their own land. Indeed, that was the point.
Like the Trump administration today, Plecker’s reclassification scheme merged racism and xenophobia with a seemingly uncontroversial commitment to ensuring that our vital documents tell the truth. But like the present policy, only the (allegedly) nonwhite from certain areas, usually born to certain kinds of health-care providers, raised suspicion. And then as now, the underlying assumption was that only whites deserve the full rights and privileges of citizenship.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...-supremacists/
(Scatters tea leaves on the ground)
Birth Certificates.
Birth certificates have always been a weapon for white supremacists
Policing the color line through vital documents.
By Susan Pearson
September 11
The Trump administration’s decision to revive and expand the Bush and Obama-era practice of denying U.S. passports to Latinos born in South Texas should come as no surprise. From his assault on Barack Obama’s citizenship to his allegations that Mexican immigrants are criminals and rapists to his promise to institute a Muslim ban, Donald Trump has made it abundantly clear that he believes the only true Americans are white.
But long before Trump rode to prominence promoting birtherism, birth certificates were an important instrument for policing the racial boundaries of citizenship. In the Jim Crow era, states used these seemingly innocuous public records to ensure that the rights of citizenship were accessible to white Americans — and no one else.
The best example of this comes from the career of Walter Plecker. Plecker, the state registrar of vital statistics in Virginia from 1912 to 1946, worked with the white-supremacist Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America to persuade the state legislature to pass the 1924 Racial Integrity Act.
The act not only forbade marriage between any white person and any “colored” person, but also defined a person as white only if they had “no trace whatsoever of any blood other than Caucasian.” The law also made it a felony to falsely register a person’s race on a birth, death or marriage certificate. This law would later be overturned by the landmark 1967 Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia. But for nearly a half-century, it was the law of the land in Virginia.
Plecker was obsessed with white racial purity, a cause he clearly connected to his belief that the United States was a white man’s country. In a 1924 speech before the American Public Health Association, Plecker claimed that when the English, Dutch and Scottish landed on the shores of North America, they came “to found a civilization of the highest type, not to mix their blood with the savages of the land, not to originate a mongrel population.” The fatal error, he believed, was made in 1619 when the Dutch introduced African slaves to North America. “The problem was not slavery,” he told his audience, “but the presence of the negro in what should be a white man’s land.”
For his part, Plecker dreamed of the day when all the descendants of Africans in the United States would return to Africa. He wanted to make America great again — 1618 great.
Barring that, however, he believed that legislation such as the Racial Integrity Act — combined with proper use of registration documents such as birth certificates — could prevent “amalgamation” and the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization. White Americans had to be on guard, Plecker explained, because the “mongrel” offspring of racial intermixture would try to pass themselves off as white and have their children registered as white on their birth certificates. They would, in effect, make an illegal border crossing.
Plecker’s office made his opinions official state policy. He and his clerks policed the boundaries of race, scrutinizing birth, death and marriage certificates for what they considered to be fraudulent attempts to pass as white or Native American (anyone having 1/16 or less of Indian ancestry was allowed to marry a white person). Plecker identified several Virginia counties that he believed were home to large “mixed blood” populations and assembled a list of surnames from suspect families.
Like the State Department today, Plecker considered births attended by midwives in these areas as particularly dubious. Whenever a baby from a suspect family on his list was registered for a birth certificate, Plecker flagged the certificate. He wrote to doctors, midwives and parents demanding they provide proof that the family had no “negro” blood.
In one letter to a midwife in 1924, Plecker warned that she had signed a birth certificate for a “white” baby from a family he considered “mixed.” He wanted her to provide more information about the baby’s ancestry. “These people are mixed and can’t be listed as white,” he admonished. “Even though he [the father] may be white in appearance, if he has any mixture of negro blood . . . he cannot be classified as white . . . Neither can his child be considered as white.”
Plecker reminded birth attendants that falsifying race on a birth certificate was punishable with jail time. He withheld birth certificates until parents or birth attendants, or the registered people themselves, agreed to “correct” their race, a process that always moved in one direction: from “white” to “colored.” If a person refused to agree to reclassification, or if the birth had been registered before the RIA took effect, Plecker issued the certificate with a note appended to the back, explaining that, according to his office, the person was not really white.
Virginia’s use of birth certificates to police racial purity had severe consequences. Plecker’s office corresponded with schools, hospitals, welfare agencies and other government entities to provide guidance about how to classify individuals so they could enforce state-sanctioned segregation. Though being re-classed from white to colored did not transform citizens into foreigners, as Trump’s passport denials threaten to do, it did transform them into second-class citizens. When access to employment, schools, marriage, voting, public accommodations, military service, jury duty and more could all be restricted by race, as was the case in the Jim Crow era, Plecker’s use of vital registration turned thousands of Americans into strangers in their own land. Indeed, that was the point.
Like the Trump administration today, Plecker’s reclassification scheme merged racism and xenophobia with a seemingly uncontroversial commitment to ensuring that our vital documents tell the truth. But like the present policy, only the (allegedly) nonwhite from certain areas, usually born to certain kinds of health-care providers, raised suspicion. And then as now, the underlying assumption was that only whites deserve the full rights and privileges of citizenship.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlo...-supremacists/
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09-18-2018, 06:39 PM
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People that have never had to work* for anything do not value anything, except as a want. I want, give it to me, or I will take it. This is the mindset as planned by the years of gov't handouts for those that won't work.
Riches obtained by celebrity, whether TV personality, sports player/coach, entertainer fall into this same category. Which is why we refer to the Hollywood liberals, who are really just people that haven't had to work for anything, and so devalue it in others.
*and by work, I mean really toil. Sweat and tears, aching body and mind numb from the effort. Shaking your *** for a few hours a night on stage or in front of a camera does not count.
Riches obtained by celebrity, whether TV personality, sports player/coach, entertainer fall into this same category. Which is why we refer to the Hollywood liberals, who are really just people that haven't had to work for anything, and so devalue it in others.
*and by work, I mean really toil. Sweat and tears, aching body and mind numb from the effort. Shaking your *** for a few hours a night on stage or in front of a camera does not count.
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09-18-2018, 07:45 PM
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Was this actually a real argument?
Because, speaking as a greedy capitalist pig, if there was a way for us to totally automate 100% of all work and eliminate the need to pay salaries and benefits to humans, we'd have done it a long time ago.
I really don't know how you can fully automate paving roads, constructing houses, writing code, growing food, doing tattoos, practicing medicine, installing toilets, designing robots, cooking food, making clothes, repairing cars, erecting windmills and solar farms to power it all, and a thousand other things.
As someone who has always been a bit of a nerd, with a tendency to hyper-analyze anachronisms and inconsistencies in works of serial fiction, something always stuck me as odd about the economics of Star Trek.
In Star Trek IV: The Search for Whales, the crew finds itself on 1980s earth. Kirk: "They're still using money, we've got to find some."
In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, while listening to a boring political speech, Bones: "I'd give real money if he'd shut up."
In Star Trek VIII: First Contact, after having yet again being mysteriously transported back to the primitive time in which we find ourselves, Picard: "The economics of the future are somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century."
So, in 2286, money doesn't exist. By 2293 it's back, and then by 2373 it's gone again. Except that it isn't, because the Ferengi (and others) still use it.
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09-18-2018, 09:31 PM
#1894
I'm still not entirely convinced he wasn't trolling because it was so absurd. He did stop responding and was down voting me so I can only assume he was serious. There were subthreads like that all over the place regarding various details of UBI. It was mostly people who haven't even attempted to fully flesh out their ideas and only made it to the dreaming of Utopia stage.
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09-19-2018, 02:53 PM
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I think so. Humans are messy and inefficient. They would likely kill most of us and keep a few around for tasks where they were absolutely necessary.
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09-19-2018, 05:45 PM
#1899
I thought we were all just being kept around as batteries. (#redpill)
https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/huma...es-matrix.html
https://www.dwheeler.com/essays/huma...es-matrix.html
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