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'They are very happy to 'blackout' their social media for a day, to read all-black books, and 'educate' themselves about black issues - as long as this education does not occur in the form of actual black children attending their actual schools.'
— Jul 20, 2025 05:21PM
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'He was holding up a sign. People hold signs up in the park every day. Sometimes they say FREE HUGS. (Note to pretty Swedish backpackers: they're not free.)'
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'Suffering is not relative; it is absolute... it has an absolute relation to the suffering of the individual - it cannot be easily mediated by a third term like 'privilege.' If it could the CEO's daughter would never starve herself, nor the movie idol ever put a bullet in his own brain.'
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Jul 20, 2025 05:23PM
this is a) completely true b) so satisfying to see articulated
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it continues: (if inequality and the virus of contempt were tackled) 'there would no longer be those of us who are taught to read Latin and those who are barely taught to read.'
The US meme version of this is having one of those signs that lists every left/liberal slogan about race and identity (in rainbow font!) ... Right outside your million dollar home in your neighborhood that will never allow any other type of housing.
