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No no no you misunderstand. I wouldn't do that, I actually don't like that at all [Turns around and points to the Creature in the back of my brain who only appears once every sometimes] but they do

strawhatsufi

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

strawhatsufi

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

strawhatsufi

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

neshatriumphs

I get what's being said, but the example is using "POC" as though it is an adjective, and it is not. It is a verb. So, the statement to switch out for Jamal's name would have been "Jamal is a POC's name." You can switch racialized out when describing something, but not as a replacement of "POC" because POC = Person of Color.

#op is the fake Albanian btw and mad racist idk what she's doing talking about this

ace-trainer-alice

there's a really fun balance when you know someone has a crush on you where you can tease them for having a crush on you without letting them know you know they have a crush on you. this only works because people who have crushes will analyze everything you say but not very well. anyway, i love playing with my food.

ace-trainer-alice

Gosh, that's so perfect. Your friend is actually the only one who is engaging with this post correctly. Supersedes my original intent, even. Sorry, I bow to her wisdom here. Tell your friend I hope she's having fun!

binturong-of-the-day

The binturong of saudade

gondorrevealparty

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

gondorrevealparty

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

ashubii

This is why I have TikTok

#i love these girls they're so weird

macbethheadband

google search job ideas for failures

thomasmomwell

t4t4t

Previous post.

Two disabled trans women need help staying housed through August. Anything helps.

https://ko-fi.com/t4t4t

https://venmo.com/u/nora-esther-rose

https://www.paypal.me/NoraEstherRose

0/2500

t4t4t

I was able to pay the rent. Thank you everyone so much. We haven't paid the water and power in a long time, that's sitting at 547 + 1301 = 1848. Not as urgent as rent was but they're bugging us about it. Anything helps.

t4t4t

Hi they're still threatening us with eviction after paying the rent, we need to pay utilities.

We need at least the 547.58 by 8/29 to not get evicted.

notallmensheviks

probablyasocialecologist

Last summer, writes the architect and human rights investigator Eyal Weizman, the Strip was blanketed with “enormous dust clouds containing particles of the different materials that formed the building[s] and [their] environment—concrete, plaster, paint, glass, metal, sand, soil—some of which are synthetic and toxic.” The dust “covered everybody’s skin, eyes, mouths, nostrils, it was present in food and water, and also covered the entire ground like a new layer of topsoil.” In the decades to come, an epidemic of cancer, lung disease, and brain damage caused by this fallout could come to rival in lethality the war’s bombs and bullets.

22 July 2026