Tell me about it. I once listened to a lesbian pitch her LGBTQ+ atheist group. During her spiel she “joked” that “I don’t know why you straights stay that way. It just seems so boring!” Of course everyone laughed at the dyke’s comment. But I’m sure if I’d made some derogatory remark like that I’d have been eviscerated. On top of that, there was just something very wrong about implying that queers choose to be that way just for the sake of novelty. But, as per usual for an atheist gathering, most people there weren’t thinkers. Sorry, I just really hate atheists. But yeah, her putting down “normalcy” seemed so odd (queer, even!).
Yeah. In a sane world we’d take to task the assholes who said people who talked about shadowbans were nutjobs. If we did, though, they’d just laugh it off with “lol that was years ago” or “who cares” instead the massive hits to their credibility they deserve.
Reddit mods really proved that “power corrupts” adage. Just that tiny bit of control they could exert on others went entirely to their heads. I can only hope these firings lead to a wave of suicides among their kind.
That twitter thread was obnoxious. I thought that place was overrun by leftards? Why are so many of them shocked and disgusted by the girl getting a slap? Feminists don't want chivalry. Chivalry is a tool of the patriarchy. There's supposed to be equality, right? Especially since there's no difference between men and women, according to them. If a dude hit's a dude he gets hit back. Why shouldn't a woman be hit back? And does anyone here speak monkey sign language? What was that licking palm gesture supposed to mean? It sure set the girl off.
Pennsylvania is a right to work state (are there any that aren’t?) so the “your employer can fire you for any reason or no reason at all” thing applies. Unless there’s a union involved. But Starbucks has been hesitant to work with unions and back then I’m pretty sure they didn’t allow them at all.
Shit, TheImp might be right. She got a pussy pass. That’s normally an unwinnable fight.
I know what you’re getting at. That thing about low intelligence people being unable to understand hypotheticals. However the person my friend was talking to was a writer. Granted, he was a gay writer, in that he was gay and wrote only gay stories about gay people doing gay things. Still, you’d think a writer can wrap his head around the concept of an imagined scenario. I think it was more that he just couldn’t tolerate presenting Native Americans as anything other than peace loving treehuggers who were beaten down by the white man.
This reminds me of an incident I experienced in college. A friend was talking about the Orion Scott Card book Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus. That book presents an alternate timeline where Columbus never went to the Americas, so the natives grew I disturbed and eventually invaded Europe. The person he was talking to was visibly agitated at the suggestion, even in fiction, of Native Americans being anything other than victims. He kept interrupting my friend to say “but that’s wrong! Europe invaded America!” My friend kept trying to explain that this book was positing a fictional alternate timeline but the other guy simply wouldn’t acknowledge that. It’s terrifying how many people can’t even allow the idea of a a worldview different from theirs to even exist.
Excuse me, sir, but there are no lingering heart problems from vaccines. Please report to re-education center #5.