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This! One of the most disgusting trends I've seen are people misappropriating queer symbology to try to queerwash their genocide of Palestinians. They don't care about us anymore than they care about the children they're murdering.

I feel like ads got worse over time to the point that one can barely fathom visiting a news media site without an adblocker.

This could be a good thing in that it could potentially help democratize journalism, taking it out of the hands of billionaires. Conversely, it could make harmful conspiracy theories more widespread.

Most likely, it would be a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

Also, why the hell is this downvoted? Am I missing something?

You made a lot of people in the audience cry

The Lighthouse was so wacky that I couldn't really take it seriously.

Jowling Kowling Rowling

One thing that is not on my bucket list is climbing Mt. Everest. Any natural wonder and charm it once had have been destroyed by mindless tourists.

Robert Pattinson? It sure looks like him!

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks of him as the "Twilight guy." That's all I could think about when I watched The Lighthouse.

Unfortunately, it's just another in a long line of people who completely misunderstand anarchist theory and instead argue with a figment of their own imagination, based on years of propaganda.

On one hand, I should have more patience to educate people like that citing books and real-life examples. On the other hand, after a post's been up for nearly a day, I get fucking exhausted with explaining to yet another person why they are completely off base. I come online to escape the people like that who I'm surrounded by in my backwards-ass red state. If they're really interested in knowing why they're wrong, they can reference my other comments. But I don't have time for them.

No one person can represent an entire culture though. That's why it's on us to learn how to be respectful.

For example, someone from Mexico might be just fine with offensive Hispanic stereotypes, but that doesn't excuse such behavior. You can't just ask a random person for a pass, like what? Even asking for something like that would be utterly tasteless lmao

That's your opinion, and that's all addressed by anarchist theory. It seems to me you're just shooting from the hip and parroting anti-anarchist propaganda you've been fed all of your life.

Edit: Blocked because "anarchism is incompatible with anarchism" is some of the most utterly baffling pseudo-intellectual horseshit it's been my displeasure to read. I need to wash my eyes after seeing those words on the screen.

But cultural appreciation is not what is meant by "cultural appropriation." Cultural appropriation is when it's done in a disrespectful manner.

I grew up with some utterly racist experiences in school -- the feather "headdress" and cardboard tipis, the sombreros on Cinco de Mayo, etc.

I wish I'd had someone at the time to explain why that was wrong.

To me, the term "cultural appropriation" refers to things like schools having kids make chicken feather "headdresses" to "celebrate" Native American Day, or wearing a religious symbol in a disrespectful way. Even though people like the person in the post can be annoying, I think it's still progress that we're able to have these discussions, and I think it's too bad that for many people the takeaway seems to be "cultural appropriation is never problematic." I'd take the person from the post any day over someone who thinks they're immune from criticism when they unintentionally engage in behavior that truly is disrespectful.

I'm a bit of a nerd about longboarding and also building Commander decks in Magic the Gathering.

I wouldn't say I'm an expert in either case, but I'm really interested in trying different setups and also seeing people discuss their own experiences and builds.

Same! I've read it many times, and I still get tears

Yeah, I think that's fine, but some people get super direct or almost aggressive about it. Asking for more details is fine, but often the OP doesn't have additional details, and people need to be willing to accept that. For instance, this situation sounds a lot like a general observation and not something that's unique to one particular set of circumstances. It's also something I've experienced, so I guess for me, I understand what he's talking about exactly.

Some people also don't read the other comments in a thread before posting theirs -- a lot of people -- and then it gets super exhausting as the OP to have to respond to each demand for context individually, when they've already responded to someone else. I feel like I still have trauma from the time I made a post on reddit that accidentally depicted someone from Australia instead of the US, and I must have had like 50 comments telling me, even though I'd already responded to the first person who told me by admitting my mistake and apologizing for the mixup.

But I got a bit sidetracked there. What I mean is, something like "Does this happen in any specific place or circumstance?" is reasonable and non-confrontative. Saying, "There must be more to the story that you're not telling us" is unreasonably rude and aggressive. It's really unkind to make veiled accusations against someone, unfounded and unprovoked -- especially in a community that's expressly about sharing unpopular opinions! Like, wouldn't you want more people to share their unpopular opinions? That seems like the whole point!

Oh, that's too bad, in that I'm not currently a bird.

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Will you be my lawyer if I get caught? "Your honor, let the record show that my client wasn't circumventing the lock -- he physically destroyed the lock instead. Nothing further, your honor."

I'm in an American midwestern small town, and people do the same thing here. The more rural the community, the worse it gets.

I'm not sure people here even realize they're staring -- they're just not very good at interacting with people who aren't the few individuals they see every day.

I feel like he made it clear in his post:

there are some adults that will just look and look and look at you when you enter a room

These people are just starting unprovoked. He doesn't say that everyone does this, everywhere he goes. He says that some adults will stare at you.

And guess what? I've totally experienced this. Personally, I think part of it for me is living in a small-ish town, but still, it's unprovoked behavior.

Even if you're walking into lectures, it's still not good form for people to stare, and the farting is something you've totally conjured out of thin air. None of these details were in OP's post. We don't need more details. When he uses the word "just," that implies this is simple unprovoked behavior.

The idea that "further context is warranted" is absurd. The OP has already made clear in another comment that there is no further context.

Edit: Okay, I'm exhausted now lol. Good luck out there, OP!