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^ Appropriating a fictional character as an unofficial mascot for your cause does not change the fundamental nature of that character. See: Pepe the Frog, Rainbow Dash, Donald Trump's ego (Freudian sense), Angry Kid, etc.
Related, by way of the concept of appropriation:
I just thought of a great way to cause a social meltdown: Loudly claim that it's time for "common-sense abortion restrictions."
This is a wholly original idea, to which I hereby grant an unrestricted license for anyone to use in any manner, provided that you don't implicate me.
President Trump (Jesus, I still have a hard time saying / writing that) used a knife and fork to eat KFC at a staged press photo aboard an airplane.
Consequently, anyone use who uses knives and forks is a *****.
* = Can we talk for a minute about the fact that Adolf Hitler was an evangelical vegetarian, so if we're ascribing negative vibes to behaviors shared by long-dead people who did bad ****, maybe that's gonna turn out to be a tad problematic?
I just now saw that you included the full article, after I went and searched for and read it.
I don't think "normal" people actually take this kind of stuff seriously anymore. It's a small group of incredibly extreme lefties that pat each other on the back over outrage.
If it was such a small group, why is it shoved down our throats all day long by basically every thing/one?
I don't know. I guess I'm not a good judge of the whole country. But I work with mostly white, college-educated left leaning upper-middle class people. And they all think stuff like this is ridiculous. My girlfriend who is very far left, is slowly coming back to center because of the stupid outrage culture.
A white woman calling a black woman “sis” is out of bounds.
I admit, I was hurt. Surely, she knows how much I love her? She knows how angry and disappointed I have been with white women playing it safe and staying silent because they can.
But she was telling me that, no matter how “woke” or evolved I may think I am, I walk this world as a white woman, which means I’ll never truly understand what it is to walk this world as a black woman.
It was hard to hear. I wanted to call her “sis” because I deeply wanted that feeling of sisterhood and kinship. But I also knew she wasn’t trying to hurt me. She was loving me enough to tell me the truth.
I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to hand her my bio of marches and rallies. I’ve had a black male lover. I’ve had female lovers. I know what discrimination feels like. I’ve been told I’m going to Hell from family members and from my own religion. Hell, I am a woman… That qualifies me, surely?
Nope. Still doesn’t make me black. No oppression, no misogyny, no religious persecution will ever make me a black woman. I can empathize but, as someone who is not black in America, I’ll never know.
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White people own the top percent of the vast wealth in this county. White people own the majority of real estate, run the vast majority of corporations, determine the cost of the products and the pay of the employees. We control the political system, the judicial system, the educational system, the health system and the legal system.
But none of these systems are broken. They were built this way. White people are broken. We built these systems this way.
That we live in a country where anyone would have to assert they matter at all, should tell you something is very wrong.
White people are broken, but we don’t have to be. Broken is not evil. Broken means something needs to be fixed. Healed. Changed.
White people created this mess. White people need to help clean it up.
To do so, white people can and should speak up. Sometimes, a simple “I agree,” is enough. Yet, we well-meaning white people or “allies” get confused about when to speak up and when to shut up, and we’re deeply afraid of saying or doing the wrong thing. Perhaps we can start by acknowledging that we don’t know what we don’t know — and ask.
People of color don’t need us to be their hero or their leader or their “sis.”
People of color don’t need white people to speak for them. They need us to hand them the mic.
I'm so glad she didn't tell us how we could fix the problem.
I love it. "This is broken, we need to fix it."
"How?"
*Insert NPC meme.
That's the great thing about being an ultra-lib in today's society. You don't have to be part of the solution, you just have to point out the problem and then wait for The State to fix it.
I mean, think about how many times a week you hear someone demanding that the government (typically the legislature) "Do Something" or "Take Action" in response to some perceived crisis. Rarely are they specific as to *what* they'd like the legislature to do. (And it usually involved liberties being abridged.)
Originally Posted by z31maniac
Also, what is wrong with chopsticks? Brainy is your hand-eye coordination and dexterity that bad?
Braineack hates nearly everything in the world other than cats, photography, and cat photography. (And he has some very strong prejudices about certain cameras and lenses, at that.)
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