This is great! Thank you so much for compiling these resources. I've bookmarked it for reference. Please don't delete it!

NO! Everyone MUST speak how I do at all times, or they're WRONG!

There's only one way to speak, and any linguistic deviation will be reported to the POLICE!

That's why you should always include a banana in the picture. Then we can tell if the clock is right side up in relation to the banana.

Quote me saying that. I didn't.

Nice bait, though. Someone who's not paying attention to the conversation might have been fooled by it.

As a 2FA supporter, I get a bit addled when the time sync isn't working properly and my discord login won't accept the code

It sounds to me like you're a good person. The people they're talking about are the ones who may have stopped hating, say, gay people -- but who have redirected their bigotry toward other marginalized groups like trans people or Palestinians.

In my opinion, there's effectively no such thing as a good or bad person -- it's the words and actions that count. No matter what you've done in the past, that's over now.

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.

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

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.

Holy shit, that governor really made an ass of himself. He just kept doubling down lol

Thanks for the links!

I miss Radio Shack, but also I feel like toward the end there the workers wouldn't even let me breathe.