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This happens way too much for me now but all I can do is smile and nod because if I say something I’m automatically a sjw and my words are dismissed.

A German book about racism (called Exit Racism) addresses this and calls it „leaving wonderland“, you will probably never be able to go back there, which is hurtful but also an important.

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Why do you hate people with rayginas

This is an excellent distinction, and it really illustrates the problem a lot of privileged folks have when discussing privilege. They think, "Oh, I can't bribe anybody, I don't have that kind of power!" because they don't see the regular, everyday, systemic ways they benefit from the privileges they do have but see as "normal".

A lot of ordinary middle class folks are unable to see the ways in which they happen to be privileged. I have a simple, mundane example: I like to walk. I walk a lot, both for exercise and errands. Sometimes, to take an efficient route, I cross a street in the middle of the block. Sometimes, I come to a red light, see that there is no traffic anywhere in sight, and cross without waiting for it to turn green. It's just barely possible that I might, someday, get a citation for doing that. But, as an older white man, there is no possibility at all that an officer will use my jaywalking as an excuse to detain and search me, as they regularly do to young black men.

And when someone points out that you have an "everybody should have this" privilege, they're not saying that you shouldn't have it or that it's your fault that others don't have it. They're saying that it impacts how you experience the world and what choices you make. If you don't experience cops as threat to your safety, you might support bringing more cops into your neighborhood. If you can enter any building by using the stairs, you might not think to organize your social event in a wheelchair accessible location. 'Checking your privilege' is: observing that you have it, observing whether it is something you shouldn't have, observing that even if you should have it, it impacts your perception of the world, observing that it impacts your choices, and finally: making better choices.

I should pin this as a warning

inspired: merfolk actually have very different concepts of gender to humans because they’re an entirely different species with their own unique culture

It’s a biological fact that fish do indeed change their sex to keep the male/female ratio balanced in their school population. So this fluidity actually makes more sense from a scientific standpoint than the silly idea that merfolk are born with a strictly assigned sex like humans.

Merfolk are all canonically genderfluid and we love them for that

OH MY GOD

So in the presence of a ship with an entirely or mostly male crew, nearby mermaids would become female to keep the balance.

That’s it. We figured out why everyone thinks merfolk are all women. Get a boat of fems out there and let’s see what they report.

This is GENIUS. I love the idea of having cute boxes like this with supplies for guests. Like “no need to furtively dig through my cabinets, there’s no shame here and also you get more time to snoop through my cabinets this way.”

Hmm. I don’t have woodworking tools or skills but I wonder if something could be 3D printed (once the library reopens, that is).

This is lovely! And it’s a simple enough design that it should be possible to make out of several different materials depending on what you have available.

This is very important. Zionist propaganda works hard to convince everyone that this is somehow an issue about Muslims vs Jews in an attempt to hide the underlying issue: An ILLEGAL Occupation

date of origin: 2015

The state of Georgia did what with voter registrations?!

CDC voice: "I know I said we'd do something about covid if it got very high again, but we have real tough jobs to do, like removing the recommendations that children with head lice or watery diarrhea be sent home to prevent further spread of their illness."

"Why would they do this?" because when kids have to stay home a parent usually stays home with them. They want to keep sick kids in school to keep parents from taking care of them so they can work instead.