it’s a lot harder to fish for sympathy when modlogs are public

we called that lobbying I think

you don’t get to decide which words marginalized groups reclaim

why the hell would anyone be offended by a black person saying the n word

your neighbor may not have individual power, but his statements still carry more weight than the opposite. there’s a reason (most) white people would never dream of saying the n word, and that there’s no equivalent for the other way around, and it’s because there’s an inherent power dynamic baked into that word and its origins

where did I say that’s ok either? it’s not, and will never be. but it’s still not racism.

where did you gain that I thought racism was ok from that? I’m merely pointing out that it’s a false equivalency

racism requires a power structure to be historically against the oppressed. you cannot be racist against white people. you can be prejudiced, and I suppose you could make some argument that the above is prejudiced if you tried really hard, but calling it racism disregards the basis of what racism is

edit: for people down voting, please go read some books, take a class from your local community college, or just talk to your neighbors. this statement isn’t meant to be decisive, nor would it be in any race and diversity class.

certain periods of time in Middle Earth could suck a little bit. I’d love to hang out in valinor during the years of the trees tho.

big difference between Mennonites and the Amish I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of

since this is targeted at pirates, I’d actually stay away from mullvad since they got rid of port forwarding

based

I don’t think ignoring a systematic issue can be put on the same level as actively enabling it. sure, previous presidents haven’t helped much, which is asking for a tragedy to happen, but trump has been pretty much forcing them to happen with these cuts.

I completely agree. I work in IT, a lot of times I can see that people have taken the exact actions I would, just with no success, until I do it. I always say that it’s like the boss walking in a room and suddenly everyone stops misbehaving.

it must be really nice to be privileged enough to have this viewpoint. and all for what? so you can give yourself a nice ethical pat on the back when you help siphon from the dems, and the gop comes after women and minorities? not sure what your background is but damn dude that’s some fucked up shit