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did you know literally *everyone* is raised racist. like by society at minumum, if not specifically by their parents. if you aren't constantly questioning the prejucides around and inside of YOU, yes even you, then you aren't taking enough action in your daily life to be a traitor to the state of white supremacy.
Maybe this is just my anxiety spiraling into paranoia, but I hate how everything relating to jobs feels like you're constantly being judged/scored.
Send in an application? All of your past experience is being judged and scored. This is normal and expected from a job application, but still stressful.
By some miracle, you get a call to come in for an interview? You are being judged and scored during that phone call. Did that phone call wake you up? Better not sound like you just woke up. -1 point.
Need something repeated? Maybe you just don't listen. -1 point.
Not available at the time/date they originally request for an interview due to a prior commitment? Maybe this shows you're not flexible and won't show up for your shifts. -1 point.
And then when you get to the actual fucking interview, it feels like everything about you is being judged. Your physical appearance. Your outfit. If you appear visibly nervous. If you don't appear nervous enough. If you stumble over your words. If you don't give the "right" answers to the interview questions. (No, you will never be informed what the "right" answers are or be given any tips)
And yeah a lot of this is just my anxiety going crazy, but some of it is rooted in reality. I've overheard real hiring managers at previous jobs discuss applicants that they interviewed and they've listed extremely petty and shallow reasons not to hire them. Their outfit. Their hair. If they were a woman/feminine appearing person who didn't have on makeup or manicured nails. (This one especially pissed me off, because it's 100% not relevant to the job at all, unless the job were a manicurist position, which it was not. And I am a woman who does not wear makeup or manicured nails, so what does that say?)
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This is especially relatable when youāre on the spectrum. Iāve had to learn from coaching how to do all of this, and now itās just like taking a test to me, where I have to give the right answers and present myself correctly. Iām just lucky I had the chance to have someone sit down with me and explicitly teach it to me.
feeding her stuffie must live on....
Me: Well, I think itās wrong to say that children are disgusting and repulsive. They are human beings who deserve respect.
Someone: But have you considered that they [something that applies to many disabled adults]
Me: ā¦ :) So. I think human beings with those traits still deserve equal love and respect. Actually.
āBut they go to the bathroom in their pants.ā āBut they make annoying noises.ā āBut they smell.ā
And so did you, once. And itās very possible if not likely that someday you will do so again. And you were worthy of love and respect back then and you will continue to be worthy of love and respect if it happens again.
My father was short and fat.
Could that have contributed to him being abusive? It's very likely. He could have been overcompensating for it.
But it would be ridiculous for me to act like I'm a victim of his shortness and fatness. Him being short and fat isn't what gave him power. Plenty of parents who aren't short and fat do the exact same things as him on a regular basis. Parents openly brag about doing the things my father did and receive widespread support when they do.
And if I talked about how evil short and fat people are, they'd have every right to be angry about it.
The Department of Education worked with the far-right Family Research Council to officially designate March 12th as Detrans Awareness Day last year. But what actually leads people to detransition? It's not regret, but social stigma, incited by the very figures who claim to protect detransitioners. I want to hear their stories describing how the current moral panic influenced their decisions.
we don't actually need gender markers on our licenses and whatnot. we could just. do away with those entirely. i do not believe this would lead disaster.
genuine question, not snark: when did political groupsā understanding of the concept of a āgeneral strikeā shift from āconcurrent labor actions intended to bring a big chunk of the economy to a halt until demands are metā to āshort term or even singe day protestā? I thought the whole point of a āstrikeā is that it lasts until your demands are met or you canāt keep going anymore, which makes it a substantially different and often more effective (though often more difficult) form of politician action than like a daylong protest or rally. But people donāt seem to use the word consistently that way nowadays.
the thing is like. i know plenty of poor americans that really did join the military because it was "the only option" but its important to recognize that even among those people its not actually the only option. you can just be poor. they made the choice to kill people so they could advance their own societal position. thats still evil
TLDR: Puerto Rico is NOT a part of the United States.
I see a lot of well meaning Americans saying things along the lines of "Um HELLO, Puerto Rico IS a part of the United States! They're Americans, too!" in the context of criticizing racism towards Puerto Rico e.g. Bad Bunny performing at the Superbowl. As a Boricua, I am here to tell you - PUERTO RICO IS NOT A PART OF THE UNITED STATES. This is a legal fact, not my personal opinion or cultural viewpoint.
As officially designated by the 1901 Insular Cases of the United States Supreme Court, Puerto Rico is an "unincorporated territory" "belonging to the United States, but not a part of the United States" (read: a colony - Puerto Rico is sadly but accurately dubbed The World's Oldest Colony)
People born in Puerto Rico do have US citizenship (which the US government only granted so that it could draft Puerto Ricans into the military) but are explicitly not afforded the full rights of the US Constitution. The US cherry picks what "rights" Puerto Ricans do and do not have while exploiting it as a tax haven and tourist playground. The most glaring and straightforward example - you cannot vote for the President of the US if you live in PR.
US Statehood is not a solution to any of this. That is another deeply misinformed liberal talking point. After over a century of abusing Puerto Ricans' human rights (forcibly sterilizing 1/3 of the women, using our land for bombing practice and causing insanely high cancer rates, massacring peaceful protestors, I could go on and on and on), full independence and sovereignty is the only acceptable resolution.
Yea, of course Bad Bunny can perform at the Superbowl. But because he is literally the planet's most listened to artist this year, NOT because Puerto Rico "is part of the United States." That is not true. Educated yourself. Que viva Puerto Rico libre.
I recommend War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis for further reading.
I need to add to this (January 13, 2026):
The USA is remilitarizing Puerto Rico right now (and has been since Fall 2025) as it ramps up to terrorize Venezuela and the rest of the world, despite ongoing and growing protests.
Several military bases were recently reopened after Puerto Ricans shut them down with decades of intense protests. In the town I live in, the military planes flying to/from the bases fly so low, all day and night, that it's painfully loud even when you're inside. The first time it happened we thought it was an earthquake. The vibrations are so intense that they even wake up my deaf partner. Last night, I was woken up by one of these planes flying overhead at 4 AM. Sleep deprivation is literally a form of torture. This is becoming more and more frequent in recent weeks.
Kind of a side note, but many ecologically sensitive bats nest around my house. Thinking about how loud and painful these planes must be to their delicate ears is heartbreaking.
The United Nations has declared every year for many years that the USA is in fact holding Puerto Rico as an ILLEGAL COLONY. This only further highlights that there should be no US military presence in Puerto Rico.
Independencia y soberanĆa ya, and USA get the fuck out of Puerto Rico.
I try to explain this to people. We don't need statehood or a shit ass president, we need sovereignty and reparations and U.S. troops off our soil.
