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#5

This fits so well with the art of chickens contacting a wise ancestor:

one of the amazing things about having friends is that they don't have complicated feelings about your parents. to your friends, your parents are just assholes who hurt a lovely person they care about. no excuses, no mindfuckery, no "oh but their childhoods were even worse, I've done phd work in analyzing and dissecting their behaviors." your friends don't care about your parents' biographies, don't give a shit about the tragic backstories. they care about YOU. and that "unsympathetic" perspective is invaluable.

"Quick" "easy" "lazy" recipes love to pretend that prep and cleanup occur within a pocket dimension outside time and space.

real omg

“The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. I often meet people in the West who insist that the Holocaust was the worst atrocity in human history, without question. Yes, it was horrific. But I often wonder, with African atrocities like in the Congo, how horrific were they? The thing Africans don’t have that Jewish people do have is documentation. The Nazis kept meticulous records, took pictures, made films. And that’s really what it comes down to. Holocaust victims count because Hitler counted them. Six million people killed. We can all look at that number and be rightly horrified. But when you read through the history of atrocities against Africans, there are no numbers, only guesses. It’s harder to be horrified by a guess. When Portugal and Belgium were plundering Angola and the Congo, they weren’t counting the black people they slaughtered. How many black people died harvesting rubber in the Congo? In the gold and diamond mines of the Transvaal? So in Europe and America, yes, Hitler is the Greatest Madman in History. In Africa he’s just another strongman from the history books.”

In addition: do not see this and think "oh, it's okay for me to buy Harry Potter stuff now and watch the show!" Her money is still going to fund hate groups. Supporting Harry Potter does material harm. This is just PR.

this isn't even a statement of support. she can't even bring herself to simply say "trans people", even though that's far less effort than "adults with intractable gender dysphoria".