I can’t imagine living with as much insecurity as conservatives face every day
It has to be a nightmare. Maybe that’s why they so mad all the time at the sightest breeze of sanity
When the only thing that keeps your marriage together is the church and the only thing that keeps you from liking the same sex is god, you keep on fighting.
Source: I know a few of these people…
Dear all those people that made this happen.
Fuck you.
Ok, so I know “retarded” is an offensive and outdated term, but I propose we redefine it as “being ignorant, knowing that you are, and stubbornly refusing to make any attempt to fix it”.
Used in a sentence: Ron DeSantis is retarded.
Yes we can do it just like South Park did with the word fag.
People get mad but it’s true. When I get mad I do sometimes call a driver a fag, and the idea of a gay person is nowhere near my thoughts when calling the dumbass driver a fag.
No, this is not cool. Louis C.K. and South Park were wrong, actually. There are a couple of things wrong with it.
If you’re yelling fag at a straight person, nobody thinks you’re yelling “Hey straight guy, you literally have sex with men!” because that wouldn’t make any sense. What you’re yelling is “You are something bad. You know, like gay people are bad.” That’s why you never hear anyone say, “Hey you cut me off, supermodel!” or “You spilled your drink on me, fireman!” because it’s not a random word after that comma, it’s an insult. So, yelling fag at people who aren’t (necessarily) gay is of course not being homophobic…to the straight person you’re yelling at. It’s being homophobic to the gay people who may or may not have heard it.
Second, the whole premise that you can use slurs and it is up to the target of the slur to figure out if you mean it in the hateful way or the “fun” way is dumb. That’s not how the world works. You can’t go up to a guy in a bar and say, “Your girlfriend is ugly and your mom’s a slut” and then get mad when they take it as an insult. It is not other people’s job to look into your soul and realize that when you’re saying something insulting that you don’t mean it that way. I’m sure you think “it’s just words”, but you probably don’t know what it’s like to be on a public bus and hear murmuring of “faggot” from the seat behind you. Maybe you’re a tough guy and wouldn’t have worried about it, but I had a long thought about what my plan would be if this guy attacked me for being gay. He didn’t, but that fear was still real.
If it makes you feel any better, this is not something that only straight people have to abide by. There’s a great Dead Milkmen song called “Instant Club Hit” that I love. It’s a funny song from the 80s that makes fun of goth culture, but there’s a part where it says “art fag” over and over again. Now I know those guys are cool. When I saw them live in Portland they asked people to donate to a group called Safe Pride PDX. One of the members is gay. Anyway, I scolded my husband once for putting that song on the jukebox at a bar. Not because I think the song is really homophobic, but because some gay guy who doesn’t know this band could be in the bar and all of sudden realize “Oh fuck, the song playing in this bar is saying fag over and over again!” and get nervous that they aren’t safe. So we don’t play that song on the jukebox anymore. And you can think of another thing to yell at people who cut you off in traffic.
Yeah, I gotta get the fuck out of here.
You could come to Ohio, things happen here, I promise!
I know you’re kidding, but I’m almost considering Ohio exactly because of all of the NOTHING* that happens.
*Except that one thing. But I’ll probably be living far away from that.
Maybe try lower Illinois then. I can’t think of anything noteworthy that happens there. Lot of open space.
My grandmother’s family is from southern Illinois. It’s not that great but it is the cheapest part, but there are a lotta bigots and racists there.
Hmm, what about Vermont? I have heard nothing bad about Vermont.
Washington, the answer you’re looking for is Washington
Source: came here from the south the other year before shit gets even worse
Don’t worry, they’re the first state that’ll be underwater from climate change and simultaneously one of the biggest deniers of it. No sawing required.
Actually according to the documentary “the Day After Tomorrow,” NY will be the first state underwater from climate change.
Well Florida is a quick second then as flood maps show it being halfway under water from a few additional feet of sea water.
Hm if black people benefitted from slavery, why not reintroduce slavery then? And while you are at it, maybe white people want to benefit, too? Maybe DeSantis specifically could also benefit. Let’s make him “benefit”. /s
Bring back? Slavery isn’t gone. It’s still allowed in the prison system.
Learn to swim, I’ll see you down in
ArizonaAlabama Bay.Believe it’s called the Gulf of Mexico already lol
It’s a reference to the song Ænema by tool
I mean I get that but you’d still be swimming in the Gulf of Mexico if Florida were to break away from the continent, they wouldn’t change the name to bay of Alabama
That’s like saying the song would be incorrect because technically they’d be swimming in the Pacific.
they’ll what now?
It just doesn’t get much worse than this stance. The only way it gets worse is when they start saying they’re re-implementing indentured labour laws
You mean like they’ll systematically target black people to send them to prison and then force them to do labor for slave wages?
Yeah, but they won’t be so sneaky about it.
There is no visible line… why not simply deny slavery and the holocaust as a hoax
As soon as the last person dies that might have personally met a camp survivor they will. They can’t deny the evidence that survivors bring to the table but once people can no longer point at grandma with the number tattooed on her arm, they’ll start playing it down more and more
I’m past it. My living philosophy now is nihilistic.
Naw friend, nihilism ain’t it, absurdism though, now that’s the way. This shit is entirely too ridiculous