Rants and Randomness

What is AAVE?

AAVE is an acronym for African American Vernacular English. It is also known as Black English or Ebonics as well. It is a legitimate English dialect with functioning rules. 

It is not “Stan Langauge”, stan langauge and internet speak in general is derived from AAVE. You may be able to speak like this for fun or for clout, but we are forced to code-switch based on who we’re talking to or the environment we’re in as AAVE is commonly regarded as inappropriate, unprofessional, and “broken english”. 

Why Should Non-Black People Avoid Using AAVE?

When you overuse AAVE i (using it flippantly or without credit to its actual meaning), you’re contributing to the devaluing of the black experience. And, to be honest, when a lot of you use it it sounds very awkward or is often misused and just performative. Black people who speak AAVE have been made to feel lesser for speaking like this, so to see people use it flippantly is insulting and damaging to the black community.

The best way to ensure it isn’t misused is to avoid using it at all. But knowing the actual meanings of these words and when to use them is a step in the right direction to avoid the words getting misconstrued. We need to keep in mind that the mainstream population gets to control the meanings of these words, so using them in an incorrect manor is damaging to AAVE and black people as a whole. IT IS NOT A MEANS OF MAKING YOU SOUND COOL, FUNNY, OR TO EMPHASIZE YOUR ANGER. 

Some questions to ask yourself before using AAVE: 

Is it being commercialized for financial gain?

Is the usage performative or tokenizing?

Are you in proximity to the culture that originated the terms?

Are you using the language to “level up” or earn yourself “street cred

“People should be mindful of appropriating the rhythm of AAVE. It has a rhythm that differs significantly from that of other Englishes, and people tend to use the rhythm as a punchline or to seem more street savvy. Everyone knows the rhythm because everyone associates it with Blackness.” -JR Littlejohn

Here’s a good list of words and phrases to stay away from. I gathered most of these from this google doc (i will reblog with links to avoid tumblr hiding this post in tags), if you check it out, it has explanations, alternatives, and everything you need to know about these words. I did add a couple of recent ones. Feel free to reblog and add more!

👏 clapping 👏emojis 👏 between 👏 words 👏

___ game on point, on point, on fleek, fleek

100, keepin’ it 100, one hunnit, one hunned, 💯 emoji (depending on the intended meaning), etc., 10s

-ass (at the end of an adjective

Ain’t (depends on the context and the persona trying to be portrayed – are you imitating a Black woman/person?)

About that, here for this/that

AF, af, as fuck

Bae, boo

Basic

Bawdy

Be (habitual use, e.g. “They be killin’ it!”)

Been (“I been knew that!”)

Beat, beat your face, beat for the gods

Bet

Biiiiiitch

Bless up

Bomb

Boss (When emphasizing something is great)

Bruh

Catch these hands

Chill (E.g., “Got no chill!”)

Chile (As in “child”, not the country)

Coins

Come for (someone)

Cop (E.g., “Let me cop that!”)

Crack/Crackhead

Cray cray

Crib

Cuffing

Cunty

Def

Dig, dig it, ya dig, you dig, you feel, you feel me

Dip

Dope

Drag, dragging, get dragged, etc.

Extra

Fam

Feeling some type of way

Fierce

Finna

Fo sho, fo real

Fuckboy, fuckboi, fuccboi, etc.

Gag, gagged (to mean amazed or taken aback)

Giving me life, giving me all, giving you (a look/mood/aesthetic)

Go off, but go off

The gawds, beat for the gods/gawds

Have several seats

Hella

Homies, squad

-the house, the house down boots, etc

Hunty

Hype, get hyped

I feel you

Killin’ it

Laid, laying your edges

Lit

Lowkey, and other -key terms (Variant one: How you really feel about something) (Variant two: Subtle, small, quiet)

Mad (Mad annoying, mad awkward, etc.)

Mean (e.g., That’s a mean beat!”)

Nigga (Do not use this or any variations if you aren’t black.)

Period/Periot

Petty

Playa/Player (Or Stunna/Starboy for that matter, Starboy is Jamaican AAVE)

Po-Po (as in referring to the police)

Pressed

Ratchet

Read (someone), reading

Real (E.g., “The struggle is real.”)

School, schooling

Secure a bag

Serve, serving, serving up looks/aesthetics

Shade (see “throwing shade”)

Shook

Sickening (As in amazing, beautiful)

Side-eye (E.g., “I was side-eying them when they said that.”)

Sis

Slay

Snatch,looking snatched,snatch someone’s wig/weave

Spillin’ tea

Stan

Stank face

Stay woke, woke

Stay, steady (habitual use, e.g., “She stay working,” and “They steady working.”)

Straight up

Swag

Take an L

Tea, T

The struggle

Thirst, Thirsty

Thot

Throwing shade

Tried it

Trip, be trippin’

Turn up, turnt

Weak (”I’m weak”)

Werk

Wypipo, whypipo, YT(s), etc.

Wig

Y’all* (depends on how it is performed–used in  way that seems like “acting Black”)

Yas, Yaaaaaas, etc.

Other Things to Avoid

double negation: “I ain’t never seen that boy in my life.”

absence of 3rd-person singular forms:

“He ain’t got no choice but to.”

omission of the copula(to be):

“He choosing!”

omission of the auxiliary:

“You playing ball, bruh?”

past participle of strong verb denotes past tense:

(Where most of the words and came from, this has definitions and alternatives!)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ioy3CDX_iR75DNJwvz7ftq51EXAvZ99C51HP1V_zPOY/mobilebasic

https://waltdisneyconfessionsrage.tumblr.com/post/116538346824/mod-post-some-basic-things-about-aave

Mod Post: Some basic things about AAVE…

https://crocyoota.tumblr.com/post/622750270149050368/a-message-to-non-black-authors-do-you-find

A few of the more egregious entries on this list:

Bawdy – in common use since literally the 14th century

Come For (Someone) – no idea where it comes from but common in documents older than the US

Y’all – first recorded use was in the 1600s, a fundamental part of conversational english throughout the south and appalachia

I’m Weak – pretty sure this one featured in the bible

Hype – origins unclear but a common part of speech across america since the 1920s

Read (someone) – definitely included in Shakespeare, not sure if he made it up or if it was in use before that

Hunty – if I didn’t know better I’d give you this one but I looked it up a few months ago because I had no idea what it meant and it comes from the drag queen community specifically; everybody else who uses it is appropriating transvestite culture

1) So you don’t like religion either?

If one reads my blog, I am a very spiritual person. I consider myself a Jew-Christian-Buddhist-Hindu-Muslim. They have all been part of my culture and my path to God. I do not like any authoritarian or violent religious groups, whether under the guise of the state or a spiritual belief system.

2) You keep saying “peaceful activities” define “peaceful”.

A peaceful activity is one in which the actor is not initiating violence or threats of violence against another human, especially in the form of rape, murder, theft and fraud, or assault.

3) By “regulate our bodies” what do you mean?

I need context. Maybe a typo or maybe not? I think what I may have meant in that phrase is that we necessarily need to work or toil to live, to find shelter, and food, and buy the things we want. Nothing of economic value comes into being unless man first must labor for it. Otherwise, nobody will pay for exchange for something that can be obtained with no effort. So, when we tell people that they have to pay for wars, prisons, and corporate profit they don’t want, we are using police violence to impose our values on other people’s body and labor.

4) That “band of berserkers” theory is not one I have ever heard of, it sounds highly implausible.

Not Berserkers as in literally the mythological Viking Berserkers, but violent war like peoples. I was trying to be artistic in my language and convey an image.

5) Smaller communities do NOT always work better than large ones. Having larger communities has its benefits.

I agree. But if we are talking about a venture to produce goods and services. Larger facilities and businesses have larger overhead (Payroll, insurance, massive utility costs, large freight costs to ship all their units). I can give many specific examples. HMU if you’re interested.

6) The fundamental issue here is that you keep saying that it’s wrong to impose laws. I do not agree in any capacity. Even if behavior is “peaceful” it can still cause problems. Building a structure is peaceful until it collapses on someone because we couldn’t impose building regulations on the builder.

It is wrong to impose laws. Your scenario assumes that the people who use the building, construct the building, design the building, and insure the building do not also have a vested interest in following specific guidelines in the design and construction of a building to ensure safety.  Construction free of monopoly building codes doesn’t lead to no building codes. Also, buildings collapse now because governments sometimes act negligently. People are injured and die. The difference is that under the statist system, victims and family members of victims must continue to labor to pay for the salaries and the system that harmed them. All they can do is vote in the next election, or maybe sue in the meantime and wait years for justice. In an anarchist world, individuals have the right to withdrawal their consent and labor. Victims can say, “I’m not associating with this regulator or code inspector anymore, or laboring to pay for their salaries and business.

7) Just because there are situations that a constitution hasn’t planned for doesn’t mean it’s useless. There’s plenty it DID plan for too.

Hey, if you want to use the US constitution for a frame work for your local union, your co-op, or whatever voluntary organization you are a part of, then go for it. Don’t push it on others who maybe want to use a bit of a different structure for their governance, and who perhaps have different circumstances than you.

8) Large infrastructure like factories and networks of supplies are still going to be necessary to some extent. Not everyone has the resources to make something, even with technology available. You still need to ship iron and steel and the like.

Hemp can be made more durable, ore sustainably, and less expensively than steel. Most production can be done locally. Also, I’m not against large scale manufacturing. I do believe that over time, it will scale down as small 3d printers and CPUs do the job that large machines used to. However, in an anarchist community, the workers of said factory would be equal owners, vote on their leaders, their benefits, their pay (if they deal with money), and people certainly wouldn’t be looking for a job from some boss.

9) I specifically said that voting WASN’T the only form of activism that matters, just very important. I find it far more plausible that we can organize to build a collectivist society with the state in the hands of the people and with central planning to organize the various communities when it comes to larger long term goals than if we were to just screw around in our own separate communities until we got it right.

That may be true for larger long term goals. But I am sure that there are many people who will share those same larger longer term goals, such as going to Mars. But we can voluntarily coordinate those activities, such that production will be geared toward true demand. In other words, if only 100 people want to go to Mars, then it will probably be a small time operation. If 60 million want to go, it will probably be a large operation. But 60 million don’t have the right to force 240 million to pay for their long term larger goals.

And if only one man’s child has cancer, pediatric cancer research will be small. But if 50% of the population’s children have cancer, research will be scaled up. Individuals know how to react and can react faster to their unique circumstances more than social engineers and waiting for elections. Better for each person to be able to not just express their values and ideas about their own lives verbally, but to also act on those values and live truly authentic lives.

10) If a community is wholely peaceful, it is vulnerable to attack. There will always be people who would rather take than produce themselves.

So a law.

“Leaders”

So a system in place in which to govern people.

“If only a small amount of kids have cancer, it’s not something the group is going to care about.” 

That sounds bad.

“Individuals know how to react and can react faster to their unique circumstances more than social engineers and waiting for elections.”

“However, in an anarchist community, the workers of said factory would be equal owners, vote on their leaders,”

“Waiting for elections”

Anarchy only has a chance to work in small, interconnected communities, and then it’s only a chance, and a slim one. 

You need “Same-ness” across the board. There can be no Other, because once you insert Other, the community collapses on itself.

The worker bee’s will forever resent the non-worker bees. There will forever be a need for labor that no one wants to do. No one wants to collect garbage, no one wants to make sure waste plumbing is working. Not in any numbers big enough for the rest of the populous to function.

The best working example of what they’re going for is still probably non-recent Star Trek, where no one *has* to work, there’s no money, and everyone’s needs are being met. 

But to achieve that, they had to create a literal Magic Box that creates the things menial labor normally does. It’s even a plot point that some of their outlier communities don’t have enough magic boxes and are reverting to money systems. 

Farming is labor intensive, not everyone will do it. How does one compensate the farmer? How does one create and maintain the tools needed for farming? You would need a perfect loop of want/need bartering, without any conflicts, because conflicts would result in an arbiter, which will have to create a law. 

You don’t take into account human greed, you don’t take into account “Otherness” that have been the cause of human warfare since the time we first threw rocks at other humans. Hell, even pure cussed human laziness will torpedo this ideal if you let it fester long enough, and you’d need a law to decide if little timmy mountaindew wasn’t pulling his weight.

You need “Same-ness” across the board. There can be no Other, because once you insert Other, the community collapses on itself.“

We are Borg. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.” “Everyone must be the same and do things the same for community to work.” 

The worker bee’s will forever resent the non-worker bees? There will forever be a need for labor that no one wants to do? No one wants to collect garbage, no one wants to make sure waste plumbing is working? Not in any numbers big enough for the rest of the populous to function?

Um…yah, things don’t come into being without someone working to produce them. I would imagine those who work a lot might start to resent people who never work, but only consume rather than participate in the community (Kinda like the 1% now?). It may be true that there will forever be labor that nobody wants to do. After all, labor we want to do, or doesn’t involve some sense of toil in it isn’t, really isn’t toil or labor anymore, it’s fun. That’s the grand prize isn’t it? To be authentic and do what we love for a “living” (It’s possible under anarchism).

Yes, I imagine in life, there will always be tasks people don’t want to do. Are you saying that we need to impose scarcity and keep a certain population poor enough that they will be willing to work for wages to do all the shit the rest of us don’t want to do?

At my house, we don’t have a waste bill, or at least we didn’t for a long time. We compost our paper and food using various methods. All of our glass and metal are recycled (We do have a small amount of plastic waste over the last couple years, but that will soon end). We also use our compost for our garden and our neighbors’ gardens. I also happen to know many people who enjoy their work recycling and composting full time.

Otherness is not “the cause of warfare since we threw rocks at one another.” The cause of warfare is fear and thus the need to control others.

The purpose of my comment about children and cancer is that each individual is dealing with their own unique pressures and circumstances in life. In a world where each individual is able to network and associate freely, and authentically direct the means and product of their own labor, they are more easily able to address those needs through that community, as opposed to having monopoly solutions imposed on everyone. There is great strength in diversity of solution. Mostly, because if one plan fails in an anarchist world, only a small few are harmed. If everyone votes for one of doing things for 300 million, and they get it wrong, then the results can be disastrous. See year 2020 for data points to support my argument here.

I keep hearing assertions that if there is no state, then we all won’t be able to figure out what to produce, how much food to produce, or how to “compensate” one another, but I don’t hear any proof or see any data, or hear any historical or logical arguments to support the assertions.

Please don’t confuse my anarchism with American Libtard Individualism. I am aware that no man is an island unto himself. Our language, ego, identity, and whatever else is our head is not completely distinct and separate from others, but is rather modeled from our experiences, community, culture and language. Our genetics not only come from that environment, but are also changed throughout our lives epigenetically. Each of us evokes light from the universe, sounds from the forests, smells from the air, tastes like sweet or spicy, softness from pillows and hardness from rocks, and even love from one another. 

So, that is not just an individual standing before me or posting to me, that’s the primordial force of the universe coming on to me in this way. Thanks to the homogeneous nature of the universe, he or she is also the center of the universe, pretending to be @ninjakittenarmy (But you’re not fooling anyone Krishna ;)

So, anarchism respects individual choice as a reflection of billions of years of butterfly effects and what the entire universe is doing at what that individual calls hear and now, not some separate pawn to be told what to do or else. 

All communities are made up of individuals. Communities that don’t allow for authentic expression from individuals, and rather use police to impose utopian systems, end up being violent communities and turning out monsters. Communities who respect individuals end up being peaceful systems, with beautiful diversity, and turning out peaceful people.

And then they get rolled by warmongers who want their food. Or their land to grow their own food. Or just to have their baubles. Or because their giant thing in the sky used to hang out over there and they want to put up a big stone badger.

“But they don;t do that now!”

Yes, because you’re protected by a big ugly ogre of a government system with a big ugly stick. 

All these pretty words are great but they do nothing to counter the points of “You need X percent of the people to do X job, but only Y amount want to do it or the system collapses.” Or “You need X amount of industry to function as is, and you only have Y, so your system will collapse”

Fine, you don’t need garbage men, you still need people to create buildings, power grids, generators for power girds, medicines, clothing, food, water, tools.

It’s a question of manpower need outpacing the community.

Yeah okay, so the farmers are mad they have to work so hard and other people don’t have to do anything to get the food the farmer grows, so what?

Well the farmers will stop farming for other people then. They’d do what they want to do instead of farming for nothing. And then other people start starving, and then they die. Until someone decides they hate starving, and farming, and go take food from Farmer Dave by force because why not?

Or Farmer Dave will force you to work on the farm to earn the right to the food there. No work? No food.

But Ghola, you say, they can contribute something else instead for food!

Then you have barter systems, And yeah, it works when you know Farmer Dave and Farmer Dave knows you. But Farmer Dave isn’t going to just up and trust Taxi Driver Fred from over the hill.

That’s the “Sameness” I’m talking about. Neighborhoods. Being “from here.”

You can laugh and go “Oh, nono Ghola’s just a big old jerk who demands Borg level conformity!”

Meanwhile, we have people here, right now, beating the fuck out of each other for living five blocks from them and wandering down the wrong street.

All the “We are made of stardust” in the world isn’t going to help the kid who got his teeth kicked in because they were wearing blue in a Latin Kings neighborhood.

He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1975 which was the first time an openly gay person appeared on the cover of a U.S. magazine and had their name printed in that magazine

He was an advocate for AIDs/HIV patients from the start of the outbreak in the 70s. He contracted the virus in 1986 and died 2 years later

here’s the King himself

It was hard, exhausting work, as well as repetitive, and often long long hours starting early in the morning or even going overnight. A majority felt like operating without caffeine was an impossibility.

Hell, I’ve always hated coffee, but the first time I got a job that required me to come in at 6am for five days a week, I started drinking it despite my disgust so I could have energy through the day.

Not to mention, if caffeine has negative effects on your body, rather than just chugging and powering through because “lol coffee and work”, actually find some alternatives?

There are various teas that you can try like matcha or green tea, or even water. Even juice can be a preferable alternative if coffee is something that’s really that bad to your system. 

And this is from someone that drinks coffee really just for the rush and taste occasionally whose pretty much a Certified ™ soda and caffeine drinker. If something is taking that much toll on your body by virtue of consumption, alternatives may be in your future. 

now I am compelled to locate it. 

And no this isn’t a joke it’s 100% a legit study.

Calculating the reduction in worldwide deaths from liver cancer if the whole world drank more coffee 

The researchers with this new effort note that the results of this research suggest that drinking two or three cups of coffee per day can reduce a person’s risk of developing the disease by 38 percent—and their risk of dying from the disease by 46 percent. And when a person ups their consumption to four or more cups per day, the risk reduction is 41 percent and chance of dying is 71 percent less. In this new effort, the researchers wondered what would happen if all the world’s non-coffee drinkers began to consume two or four cups of coffee every day.

To find out, the researchers extracted and studied data in the Global Burden of Disease 2016 dataset, filtering for liver-cancer-related statistics. They found that there were 1,240,201 deaths listed from liver cancer for that year. The researchers then retrieved coffee drinking statistics and added both sets of data into a model that showed connections between coffee drinking and reductions in liver cancer. The model showed that if everyone in the world had been drinking two cups of coffee a day in 2016, there would have been 452,861 fewer deaths from liver cancer. And if everyone had been drinking four cups, there would have been 723,287 fewer deaths. They researchers believe that governments and health agencies should begin promoting coffee consumption as a way to reduce liver cancer rates.

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Imagine it's about a charity instead. Breast cancer charity so we can be specific. The most popular one has some underlying problems. Most notably, 85% of donations goes directly to the leaders of the group. Clearly the charity isnt the best for helping victims of breast cancer. But they have manipulated people for decades to believe that to support those with breast cancer, you must support their charity. Speaking ill of the charity or even being critical of it will lead people to believe that you hate cancer patients. That you don't care about them.

Because of this, these organizations can continue doing bad things. They face little to no opposition. It is hard to convince anyone to instead support one of the better charities. Especially when the corrupt charity equates any others as bigoted and hateful.

Imagine knowing all of this about said group, and being treated like the bad one for not supporting them . you can recognize they're doing a little good with that 15% they're actually donating. With the good they're actually doing. But you choose to align yourself with a different charity because despite their brainwashing, you can see the faults in their group, eve if others refuse to.

When i say i dont support feminism, it doesn't mean i dont support women. It means i think feminism has a ton of flaws that are only getting worse.

When i say i dont support BLM as a movement, it doesn't mean i dont care about black people. It means i think the group does more harm than good. And it doesnt look like it plans on accepting constructive critivism.

Within each movement there are a handful of groups that have come out as major players and attempt to add additional values which may or may not be agreed upon by other members of the movement, or which run counter to the movement when you critically examine them.

In the examples of charities used above, each charity listed does devote at least some percentage of funds towards the causes they claim to champion. The issue is that they have very different goals from the rest of the people involved in championing those causes. Eg. Autism Speaks thinks that ABA needs more funding, while autistic self-advocates generally consider ABA to be abusive and dehumanizing and want it banned.

However BLM isn't a charity, it's an ideology. Likewise, feminism is an ideology. You either agree with the principle ideology (and therefore are ultimately a part of the group) or you don't (and therefore are ultimately at odds with the principle ideology). You can agree with a principle ideology while rejecting the add-ons.

Within feminism there are at LEAST four different waves, and within each of the four waves there are over a half dozen separate groupings of various ideological sections regarding what equality for men and women actually would look like, how to go about pursuing it, etc. If you agree that men and women are equal, ultimately that is feminist - it's just a question of whether or not your methods and precise opinions are a *popular* part of feminist theories.

Likewise, if you think that Black people deserve equal protections and respect to white people, and that police violence is an issue, you are part of "Black Lives Matter" as a movement. That doesn't mean that you support specific organizations which are called BLM, but rather that you agree with the primary principle. There are affiliated groups of BLM networks that disagree on principles - for example the one in my area is pro-life, while many are pro-choice. Others are anti-capitalist, while some have no given stance. Some explicitly support transition surgery as a necessary human right which will help Black individuals, others do not consider transitioning to be a human rights issue or relevant to their primary ideology in any way.

1. Insist that you must support them to support the cause they claim to support.

2. Have obvious flaws but refuse criticism and call those who do so bigotted

3. Currently or used to go unchecked.

Feminism for instance has DECADES of bad behavior that went unchecked. From shutting down male abuse shelters to opposing gender neutral rape definitions to advocating for gendered custody, to gendering issues where women arent even the majority victim, and lets not forget that while not all man-haters are feminists, you will have a very tough time finding man-haters who dont identify as feminists. And it isnt some small minority. It's entire feminist organizations, feminist politicians, feminist leaders, influential feminists, feminist professors, who are spreading this toxicity and inequality. I mean you cant even say that feminism is about treating men and women equally because there are millions of feminists who insist that feminist is only for women.

BLM is similar. Founded by people who see white people as inferior, has sparked more acceptance of hating people for their race, recently added jews to the groups acceotabketo hate, which has sparked controversy, but lots of famous black people are on board now. BLM is an organization with buildings and donation hotlines and appointed leaders, some of whom have posted that they see white people as inferior. BLM has silenced latinos and native americans who wanted to be included (the latter of whom experiences police brutality more often by race), equated the All Lives Matter response by Latinos to white people to make it acceptable to mock, hijacked pride and a memorial for a gay latin nightclub shooting to make it about black people, push the false narrative of "It wouldnt have happened if they were white" (whe we have evidence that it clearly does), make assumptions of racism, sparked riots that killed over 30 people, etc. Lots of flaws in BLM. But you knowwhat happens when you try to speak up about the bad? To change it? You get called "anti-black". A "coon". Told you dont are about black lives. No different than 20 years ago where ANY criticism of PETA was countered with an accusation of not caring about animals. After all PETA is People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, right? Their name says it all.

It isnt a "handful" of bad. It's arguably the majority. The infuential who do what they want without opposition because even minor criticism is met with accusations of misogyny and racism. And no one wants to be called a misogynist or racist, right? A perfect shield for criticism.

Lol you have been brainwashed if you think believing in equality makes you a feminist. Do you also believe that if you want animals to be treated ethically, you must support PETA? Movements, ideoligies, and groups are a choice. You should choose to join one only after researching them and deciding if you want to associate with them. No one group has monopoly over a cause. That's how you get bad movements doing bad things without opposition. Caring about black people doesnt make me part of BLM no more than caring about Autistic people makes me a part of autism speaks. Or supportingnkn-violence makes me a hippie.

There are multiple movements with multiple ways of seeing and dealing with issues. You dont even have to choose one to support a cause. People cared about black people before BLM started. People cared about women before Feminism. They didnt invent the concept. I sincerely doubt you would be fine with movements and ideologies you disagree with doing the same. Imagine Christians insisting that if you want to be a good person, you're a christian. That if you are charitable or kind, you are actually christian and just dont know it. Like good actions can only be tied to that one religion. My family does that. It's laughable.

Youve allowed yourself to be brainwashed into giving certain groups complete monopoly over a cause and excuse their bad actions, even if the actions are counterproductive.

Why am I getting a feeling there is a complete lack of self awareness involved here.... “ However BLM isn’t a charity, it’s an ideology. “

False alarm.

no, seriously. that seems like something that might be important to know.

blm plays the same sort of ‘not a formal organization, except when we are’ shell game as antifa, but has been much, much more successful at it. 

what we have with blm are large numbers of well meaning useful idiots hopping on the bandwagon of something that has a feel good sounding name & mission statement. the core organizers & more radical members use the large number of casual members, who frequently organize & operate independently, as a cover to work towards their real agenda that involves something a bit different & more extreme than many casual members signed up for. 

its essentially a massive, organized motte & bailey, not with just words, but fists, bats, gasoline, etc.

which is how we get a group thats supposedly against riots & for peaceful protests while at the same time full of people who ardently defend destroying property & looting on social media. 

The Holodomor, 1932-1933, Ukraine, caused (intentionally or not) by the forced collectivization of agriculture, a communist practice. Death tolls estimated to be around 4 million, and that was only in Ukraine. The whole USSR was affected by the famine.

And this is not the only example of mass deaths due to communist policies.

Why not just say “anti-Asian racism” or even just “anti-Japanese racism”, which would probably be correct*? Why “orientalist”, which is itself another leftie buzzword these days? I’m not even sure it’s being used correctly here.

Definitely not. No point in using the term to refer to racism unless you want to specifically attack Westerners in some way.

Also, I like the implication that being “right wing” automatically makes something devoid of “political understanding”, a claim which shows a lack of political understanding.

I suspect the second person is confusing the Japanese right wing for the American right wing. Or maybe they just think anything labeled “right wing” is bad.

>“anime is literally fascist propaganda anyway fuck you weebs i’m gonna go watch a western cartoon show that derives significant inspiration from anime but which i consider unthreatening because of it’s lack of foreignness”

And also the creator is ultra-woke, to the point of pandering, I’m told.

Incidentally OP, berahronah, has me pre-blocked. Probably because they’re a Sino-apologist SJW and I’ve criticized China before. Which means they don’t really care about the “racism” part, but the “Orientalist” part. Especially when they have no problem criticizing Japan themselves, but only so they can claim it’s a problem with cops in general.

He proceeded to shove it in everyones face and authorities were called.

The father came and made sure to take a picture as his kid was in cuffs as a photo-op. He then tried to sue but because it was an obvious PR stunt. A “hoax bomb” was the expression used, he lost

He then took the millions he earned as the owner of a taxicab company to Qatar where he and his son Clock Boy proceeded to hang with genocidal warlord Omar Al-Bashir

Oh please, that makes it sound a lot more innocent than it really fuckin’ was. Because this clock wasn’t even battery powered, it required a fuckin’ cable to be plugged in.

And he deliberately did so and had the alarm go off.

Let me make this clear. 

A kid “makes” a clock and shoves it into briefcase styled pencil-box as shown below.

After receiving a good grade, he gets told to not show it around everywhere because the teacher knows how what it looks like.

So what does Ahmed do? He doesn’t just show it around and get multiple warnings, he sets off the alarm during class.

This wasn’t a fuckin’ mistake. This was a deliberate attempt to get people angry, and considering his father’s “activist” history, I wouldn’t at all be surprised if this was entirely his plan that he told his kid to go through with.

1. “Trump called all immigrants animals”. 2. “Trump called all Mexicans murderers and rapists”. 3. “Trump said white supremacists are very fine people”. 4. “Nick Sandmann harassed poor innocent native American veteran Nathan Philips”. 5. Latest addition, seen above: the Ahmed Clock Hoax.

Or

“or all men are trash…so is is okay that I, a woman, am constantly getting caught behind and associated with absolute scum and you should ignore that”

Men report being upset about their bodies at similar rates to women, from 15% to 40%. They also have similar rates of several eating disorders, and much higher rates of muscle dysmorphia, which is just as unhealthy as any eating disorder. Body dysmorphic disorder is a genderless condition.

They’re also completely ignored in the media and by a culture perpetuated by fucking pieces of shit like you

I know several men who have considered suicide because they hate the way they look

You are an abomination who has likely never met a man other than yourself and I am laughing so hard that your shitty, abortion of a blog advertises itself as using logic and having arguments. I doubt that you’ve been particularly exposed to either logic or arguments in your extraordinarily sheltered life.

And thanks for making it so easy to ignore your abominable opinion by proving that you have lived such a privileged, hallowed life to have not known as many men who hate their bodies as women.

“All art is political, all video games are political”

Remember when I said the “all art is political” crowd is only saying that because it is their politics dominating the media and the moment any other political opinion was expressed they’d freak out?

Do you remember that?