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hazeebabee @ hazeebabee @slrpnk.net Posts 4Comments 194Joined 2 yr. ago
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This term is trickier since it is entangled with Europe's long standing use of blackness to denote wrongness. & that whole dichotomy of good=white bad=black is an often talked about source of controversy in literature.
As the wiki says "It means a situation in which somebody accuses someone else of a fault which the accuser shares". In the case of the quote the fault is being black. Both pot and kettle are black.
Here is an article I found that did a good job delving into the topic. They end up agreeing the term is okay to use but also offer some alternative phrases that side step the potentially offensive phrasing. My fav was, "the wifi calling the narrator unreliable".
Ah co-parenting with an ex can be super tricky. It sounds like at least a half win though, you aren't in the same house any more :) congrats on the break up, I know getting out of toxic relationships takes it's toll
& I get that the word is part of your vocabulary, I can't change that, just encourage some reflection. It's a term that's been used against me so I'm perticularly sensitive to it. Here is a link to an article in case you or someone else is interested in the history of the term.
That's fair. It's definetly one of those offensive terms people use without necessarily thinking about, like "getting gyped" or "pot calling the kettle black".
Knowing is half the battle & raising awareness is half of activism lol
I get that your anger probably comes from the frustration of a bad relationship. I also want to encourage you not to use bigoted terms. Just refering to them as your ex's family, or ex's fucked up family would have gotten a similar message across.
It really undermines your point, draws focus away from what youre trying communicate, & makes you look like a biased and unreliable narrator.
I hope that ex is out of your life & you're in a happier place now.
I also find it to be a derogatory, distasteful, and bigoted term. I definetly think less of people I hear who use it, & hope eventually it will be dropped from the cultural conciousness like other bigoted terms.
It's a way to police what "whiteness" should be, and is a term I've only ever heard from well off and judgemental people.
What a beautiful community. Thanks for sharing :)
Not all computers are eligible for a free upgrade, my work desktop (windows 10) got a pop up about ending support & that my computer isn't eligible for an upgrade to windows 11.
Edited to add: this post is so old idk why I commented. Sorry lol
Honestly I'd be down for one of the debates to be replaced by a big wresting match. VP candidates can tag in. Everyone gets silly outfits. Their one liners all have to do with policy. It would probably get a much bigger turnout than traditional debates lmao
Edited to add: it would probably better reflect current american politics too. Two actors play fighting in a gimmicky show. Sadly tho this match would be able to effect your daily life
Do you ever think about how confused far future archeologists will be when they dig up old museums with all these fossils from wildly varying time periods?
Would they infer that it must have been some museum? Will they think those life forms coexisted? Will they blame it on aliens? Will they be capable of reading the engraved plaques if those survive in the wreckage?
Would a monstrosity like the one pictured above confuse them?
Super cool. I can't imagine having to explain what happened to the lab manager after burning through the lab floor and a few feet of gravel and sand below lol
But what about the stoned geology guys? the stoned stone lovers, the geology ganjis, the crystal cannabis connoisseurs, the rock lovin rockers, the dabbing dirt collectors?
Super interesting compound. I wish somehow I could watch footage of strengs experiments. I bet some of those explosions would be really cool in slow mo lol
It worked for me lol.
It's the one where he's leaned forward really far (bent at the waist with his butt out) talking into a bunch of mics. Likely to keep his suit from having unflattering lines in the front.
Definetly still alot of good content on reddit. Lemmy is very new so the niche communities arent here, and lemmy doesnt have years of post and comment history to fill things out.
I do think with time those things will happen on lemmy & that the administrative priorities of reddit will slowly make that space less useful. Right now both have their uses, but i have high hopes for the furture of decentralized social media.
It definetly does. Small niche subs dont attract advertisers the way the massive subs do.
It makes sense advertisers are going to target spaces with the most people
Sorry, i wasnt trying to be rude. Just a playful response to what i thought was a playful post.
Yeah lol, i think it was the photo that made my brain think of kids on a playground.
Hope i didnt offend, i meant to be playful not rude.
Definetly your choice to make.
I don't mostly because I have a 'replays in the middle of the night' memory of using it in conversation with a black woman & she let me know exactly how it made her feel. Idk sometimes offense isn't about history it's just about how the random person next to you feels & the phrase isn't so important to me that I can't express the same thing in different words.