CeruleanRuin @ CeruleanRuin @lemmings.world

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He's also a highlight of Green Room, which also stars Patrick Stewart.

Just in time for the holiday baking and candy sales season. How convenient.

Some kinds of mental illness can cause horrible human syndrome.

My grandpa was a nice, sweet guy until he got old and developed a degenerative neural disorder that ate holes in his brain and made him an awful person to be around for the last few years of his life.

It also doesn't matter what they did in order to "magnify the impressions" or whatever bumcrap, because that's ultimately not why advertisers are pulling out. All MediaMatters did was cast a light on what was there.

Mater would be a Pakled tow-cruiser.

"We look for things to get 'er dun."

... Why?

I didn't even see what community was posted on and related too strongly to this.

"What did I forget? What'a going to break tomorrow?"

You're not allowed to do that unless you're already rich.

You've heard of elf on a shelf...

It's not something children should watch alone, I'll grant that. But it is and always should be something families can watch together.

I would hate for this to take the same path the Trek franchise did and start adding in a bunch of gratuitous gore, pointless profanity, and alien titties.

Knowing there was new Trek for the first time in ages and then finding out I couldn't comfortably share it with my kids was a big disappointment. I don't want that to happen to Doctor Who.

Because racist people still exist and still control the narrative, that's why. Pride is protection.

This is the most obnoxious pedantry I've ever heard. Black Americans celebrate their old world origins just as much as Irish Americans celebrate theirs. They can't be more specific to the tribe or country because that knowledge was fucking erased. Black is the culture, broadly speaking.

I'm being charitable and chalking it up to people with 0 social awareness or life experience who don't realize how much they are enabling the real bigots.

It's okay to be ashamed if your grandpa was in the fucking Klan, my dude. Normal, even.

That is a hypothetical so far removed from any semblance of reality that it doesn't even merit discussion.

Might as well ask "well if we were all made of purple goo would we have anything to fight about?" It's fucking nonsense. Human nature dictates that a majority will always oppress a minority, even when it's not intentional. It's selective pressure, pure and simple. If you have a population that's ⅔ one kind and ⅓ another, the society will naturally trend to cater to the ⅔ more than the ⅓, and it doesn't take much thinking to understand why. And even if the smaller group grows to reach numerical equity, their historical disadvantage will stay with them for many, many generations, putting everyone born into that historical minority at a disadvantage from birth.

That's called systemic inequality, and it is real and pervasive in human societies. It's built into the system and will never go away, so we will ALWAYS have to also create ways to alleviate it.

Because it's the same thing as gloating when you win. It makes you look like an asshole rubbing it in the face of the less fortunate.

Exactly. "Black Live Matter" is a statement of imperative, as in "look at these people you have been ignoring", while "All Lives Matter" is saying "there is no problem, everything is fine".

Anyway "white" is too broad an identifier to mean anything, unlike groups which have had their cultures systematically oppressed. There's already widely accepted celebrations of "Irish pride", "Italian pride", "Polish pride", etc. Not a lot of specifically "English pride" celebrations because the British empire already made that the default for centuries.

This "pride" thing is specifically meant to mean "we survived, and continue to survive." Anyone advocating for "white pride" doesn't even understand what they're talking about. There is no "white identity" to be protected because it has never been under threat of annihilation. It's like stationing a battalion of troops around a public park in a suburb because you're convinced that The Enemy wants to take it over. Nobody's coming for your playground equipment.

That one falls under "idiot". To be a bigot when you have all the physical and intellectual resources of the world at your disposal requires either a deliberate effort to remain ignorant or the lack of mental capacity to process facts.

Those are just two different flavors of idiocy, and they typically go hand in hand.

I don't know why you're giving him the benefit of the doubt here. What in his history over the past few years has given you any evidence that he is not a complete fucking moron?