#ara-line

[h4ganah]

Speaking as a non practicing Sikh (aka someone from an ethnoreligious group with shared traits to Judaism) I am fascinated, and not in a good way, at the way so many antizionists discuss Judaism.

Yeah, the current flavor of chronically online israelised antisemitism is incredibly bizarre to witness, especially it's attitude to the religion. Is there anything about it that feels similar to/hits home in how Sikhs and Sikhism is treated or viewed by outsiders? Ashamed to admit I know very little about it

[socialjusticefail]

I watched Oppenheimer on Saturday and I can not get out of my head that the real man shared so many of today's leftists' beliefs yet many of them are so eager to just reduce him to one bad person. He supported integration and was involved with communists. Many leftists saying Oppenheimer the movie shouldn't have been made seem unwilling to accept their own capacity for evil and that they are equally as capable of causing the same destruction Oppenheimer himself did.

I think a lot of people reduce a person down to their worse traits or their best traits.

[dhaaruni]

So in what way are you culturally conservative but socially liberal?

I'm a radical atheist, very pro-choice, pro LGBT, pro equal treatment under the law etc. but I'm like freakishly disciplined lol. Like, I'm a huge proponent of monogamy and toeing the line and I think my lifestyle has a greater chance of success than the alternative, but also, I don't want to punish people who don't conform the way I do. I think it's barbaric to hold everybody accountable to my standards of living.

Look at it like this: Joan Didion came out against Donald Trump's racism in the 1980s but she's still culturally conservative because she's definitionally about self-respect and hard work and not causing trouble.

Does that kind of make sense?

[alexstorm]

So what is your opinion on Alex Kapranos and Clara Luciani? I noticed some people have opinions on this based on a previous ask. I don't care about dating since both were adults, and I mean established adults over 25. It's the having a kid thing that bugs me more since having kids later in life means less chance being around when they grow up. It's true and we know this.

I have no real opinions on them since I just learned yesterday about them being married and being pregnant. I also don’t really care when someone gets pregnant as we’ve learned from Matt, deadbeat father of the year, that they also can’t be around at a younger age.

[socialjusticefail]

Kindly, do better. - YouTube

I think this woman has a pretty strong point about how many left leaning people will not interact with people who disagree with them slightly is doing more to damage left wing and social justice movements than many right wing movements are. A big part of her video is this, for those of us who don't want to spend an hour and ten minutes watching her video.

I know it is probably what is happening on the right as well. Could possible explain the polarization of right and left.

[socialjusticefail]

I don't really like the whole attitude some people have about plastic surgery being that if you wanna do it, do it. Okay, but I feel like we as a society don't adequately address the side effects that can come with stuff like that. For one, BBLs are quite dangerous and your face will lose fat as you get older, which is why buccal fat removal is a bad idea in general. There was this youtuber called Luxeria who did an interview with a plastic surgeon. You might find it interesting.

interesting.