â Lan Zhan do you remember Yiling? Do you still remember that we met each other here, and I wanted to treat you to a meal? Itâs a little shameful to say that youâre the one who paid for it.
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â Lan Zhan do you remember Yiling? Do you still remember that we met each other here, and I wanted to treat you to a meal? Itâs a little shameful to say that youâre the one who paid for it.
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Fun things to say when someone tells you theyâre going to go to the bathroom:
Stay safe
Congratulations
Thatâs what they all say
Different strokes for different folks
I hope you have the time of your life
But you have so much to live for
Please explain
Americans have American privilege. Even if you donât want it! Even if thinking about that fact makes you feel uncomfortable! Even if youâre in an oppressed group (or more than one) in America!
If youâre an American citizen that comes with a mind-blowingly large amount of privilege with respect to most other countries on Earth.
Just because American SJ activists donât talk about this (because it makes them uncomfortable) doesnât mean it isnât true.
well said, @kerasines
YOU GUYS ITâS DECEMBER 10TH YOU DONâT UNDERSTAND THIS HAS BEEN IN MY QUEUE SINCE FEBRUARY
you have the rest of the day to reblog this
in 23 years Iâm gonna collect the special children conceived on november 5 and make them all fight in an old abandoned farm but ultimately it will have no relevance to the overall plot because I didnât think that far ahead
Is this a reference to something or are you just aware of something that we donât know.Â
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Brands pretending to be allies during pride month always sucks, but on the other hand it's hilarious to see homophobes believing those acts are genuine and trying to "boycott" an increasingly larger number of products
Iâm old enough to remember when saying anything in support of LGBT people was unpopular enough for corporations not to touch it with a ten-foot pole, and while I donât believe for a moment that these companies give a shit about making things better for LGBT people, the mere fact that itâs now more profitable to support LGBT rights than not brings me satisfaction
I know it's performative, i don't care that it's performative. California voted in 2008 to ban gay marriage in their state constitution. Obama didn't support gay marriage until 2012 (after Biden basically forced the issue). Major corporations supported anti-equality charities.
Around 2015 things started to shift and it became more economically perilous to be anti-queer than to support the community to the point even Wal-Mart came out in favor of same sex marriage. Disney sells pride merch in its parks and is up to its seventh first openly gay character at this point.
The loss from being pro-lgbt is less than the gain. That's a huge cultural shift and while it's performative, it really matters because it changes the narrative. It means the mainstream cultural norm, while far from perfect, isn't "gays are dangerous deviants who are destroying our Christian Valuesâ˘ď¸," it's "love is love."
That shapes how people see queer rights. Kids, teens, or just "moderate" adults are pushed toward that view. Regressive views become more and more unacceptable.
Yes, it's performative, but that doesn't mean it's not influential in very important ways
THIS IS THE FUNNIEST THING EVER
The self congratulatory ego masturbation on this post is hilarious I mean I am more geographically aware than the average person by far, because I HAVE to be, and like , the ONLY reason I know as much as I do is entirely from my undergraduate education. You donât learn shit like this in American secondary schools because the US is an individualist hell and i aint going to be a dick about it just because I have had opportunities and resources to learn from that others havent. The silencing of free thinking and suppression of education has existed in the US for a while now. I know where I am currently most people dont even get reliable internet or have cell phone signals specifically because the monopoly of broadband access limits these resources to targeted populations of poor Americans. Instead of assuming everyone is ignorant purposefully, maybe its time yall start questioning the systems that enforce this ignorance in the first place.
you didnât have a map at your high school? not a single world map? no globes? no atlases? not a single one?
americans arenât ignorant abt geography bc they arenât getting spoonfed it. theyâre ignorant because they donât give a shit about any countries other than theirs. iâm not babysitting a bunch of ignorant leftist americans because they never bothered getting any more education than was handed to them.
And then American go mad if somebody donât know every state
Itâs apparently a very controversial take, but you can actually do both. Yeah, the system sucks and thatâs an important fact and a valid argument. Itâs true that many people struggle because they never had the access to the right resources and because the system is very flawed and in a desperate need of some changes. That said, thoughâŚ.Â
Thereâs the kind of information that is hard to access and verify, even if you have the Internet, but the map of the world is⌠not one of these things. You donât even need to have the Internet access to see the world map, you can go to the library.Â
And itâs perfectly fine to donât know something, I personally always sucked at geography because I have memory issues that often mean that I forget information very quickly unless I make an effort to make sure that I wonât forget it. I might study the world map many times and Iâll still mix up some countries especially if they are similar in size and next to each other. That happens. There are a lot of countries in the world. It just means that I should try harder.Â
And itâs one thing to have poor education because of your social economic situation or because of the flawed system but itâs another thing if you gleefully announce that you donât even know about some countryâs existence while simultaneously getting offended that youâre being called ignorant for that very reason if the whole thing happens ONLINE, so clearly said person could easily spend those 5 seconds that it takes to google Belarus and educate themselves instead of telling people that âhey, until now I had no idea your country even existed!â.Â
And at some point most adults reach this moment when they realize that the education they received was lacking and that from now on itâs on THEM to educate themselves and do better. And I think itâs a pretty universal thing, whether you got good education or not there is always more to learn. Itâs human and normal to donât know everything. Itâs understandable that your knowledge is lacking if the education system failed you. But itâs different if you loudly and proudly ADMIT that you are ignorant and instead of doing something about it (when you clearly have some resources) and then proceed to get OFFENDED when someone recognizes that you are ignorant. Because at this point you are making the choice to be ignorant.Â
I know that Americans canât relate, but as someone from Poland I hear âI never heard about Polandâ A LOT. And itâs not a very pleasant thing to hear and even if thatâs true then Iâd much prefer if people kept it to themselves instead of telling me, directly or indirectly, that they know nothing about my culture and not only wouldnât find my country on the map (or even gesture in its vague direction if I showed them the world map) but wouldnât even know that it is, in fact, a country that exists.Â
And itâs especially exhausting when you get that from people who will never understand or appreciate the fact that the reason why you can even communicate with them in the first place is because you had to learn their language and know at least some basics about their culture and politics. Which takes time, energy, money and an insane amount of dedication. And many of us also donât get any of it from school (because hey, shocking new! system kind of sucks everywhere!), we have to get out of our way to actually learn all of that. And in English-speaking Internet spaces it is practically EXPECTED FROM US that we know about American politics, life, culture, struggles, all while in return you will hear âBelarus? Poland? Is that even a real country?â.Â
thank you for that last addittion and putting it into words. the issue I think we most have with the original comment isnât bc the person doesnât know belarus exists but their attitude about it (and also the rest of the comment bc Iâve seen it in its entirety and let me tell you it only goes worse from that first sentence). like, you know. I think for most of us the first reaction for when we hear thereâs sth happening in a country we canât place on a map is to go âshit how do I not know about it???â and Google it, not throwing a tantrum about how our ignorance is the fault of shitty education bc hey surprise US of A is not the only country with shitty education and YET!!!
Last two reblogs so much. As a person from Poland myself, the US centrism (and sometimes Btitish centrism) of English language internet spaces us so glaring
As I live in the UK now and spend most of my time online on English language spaces, I constantly learn and absorb US/UK culture, politics, social politics, history etc. I educate myself about those places constantly. Itâs a bit disheartening to be aware that so many people couldnât even bither to do the same for place Iâm from
To me, itâs not even that offensive that someone sucks at geography to the extent that they donât know that Poland and Belarus exist (though itâs baffling. Like how do you *not know* that a country exists? Itâs fine if you canât place it on the map, but how do you not know about it?? It takes an American, truly). Itâs the combo of âI have not heard about your countryâ and âcan you stop assuming weâre ignorantâ that gets me. xD No, I canât. I canât (and I donât want to) stop assuming that ignorant people are ignorant.
âŚ.Wait, you donât even have to *assume* anything here, actually.
After years of living in the adulting world, I think Iâve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when youâre in a bad mood.
When youâre happy, when youâre feeling generous, when youâre pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, itâs easy to be nice. Itâs easy to tip the waiter well when youâve had a good day. Itâs easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. Itâs easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when youâre in a good mood.
Itâs hard to tip the waiter when you didnât enjoy your food. Itâs hard to thank the clerk for their time when youâve just been told thereâs a problem with their account and they werenât able to fix it for you. Itâs hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. Itâs hard to be nice to people when youâve had a shitty day. Itâs HARD.
Thatâs what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you canât think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, theyâre scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.
Because most of the time, itâs not the waiterâs fault that the food you ordered wasnât what you expected. Itâs not the clerkâs fault that your account is overdrawn. Itâs not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you canât summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.
This is very wise and very well put.
i dont think you get it. 1980 was twenty years ago. 1990 was 10 years ago. 2000 was 10 years ago. 2016 was two years ago. 2018 was also two years ago. 2017 was last year. 2014 was four years ago. do you understand me now?????
a while back i read a post along the lines of âif you feel like everyone hates you, itâs time to rest⌠if you feel like you hate everyone else, itâs time to eatâ and honest to god iâve never used any piece of advice more than i have that one
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