When Trump talking about “taking away history” and “taking away culture” in regards to the Confederate monuments, he doesn’t actually gives a shit about history or culture. He’s striking fear into his base and appealing to their racist anxieties that we are browning up (and in their mind, ruining) America.
Do you think Trump gives a shit about history books in schools rewriting history to omit references to slavery AND downplaying the accomplishments of Black Americans? Do you think he gives a shit about politicians who try to ban (and in some cases succeed) the learning of Latino and Native history in schools? Do you think he gives a shit about the history that’s lost when indigenous land is bulldozed over? Do you think he gives a shit about the continuing loss of indigenous languages, religions, cultures, and people due to colonization?
Do you think he gives one second of a thought on Black and brown history? Hell no. His words are explicit. He’s appealing to a very certain base here and there’s a reason why it’s the same language we here from the Richard Spencers and the David Dukes of the world.
folks, I’m just gonna say it. I don’t think it rains for long enough periods of time. it rains hard, it sounds good, I’m comfortable inside, but within 5 minutes the jig is up. the dream is over. I think it should rain for longer periods of time than it presently does
Historically, there are major four groups that have commonly been described as “adventurers”:
a. Pirates and bandits who realised that the real money lay in getting people to pay them to go pillage someone else;
b. Members of the idle rich who wandered about robbing tombs and subjugating the locals for fun rather than for profit, often distinguishable from the first group only by the presence of a “Sir” before their names;
c. People who just wanted to look at birds, but it sort of got out of hand; and
d. Lesbians.
Now, I’m not saying that this taxonomy would make a reasonable basis for a class system in a tabletop roleplaying game, but I’m not not saying it either.
Friendly reminder that estrogen doesn’t change your voice so please do not make fun of trans women with non-cis sounding voices vocal training is hard thank you.
This is no joke. So hard. Especially if you’re older.
Support trans woman who chose not to undertake voice training. Support trans woman with non-cis sounding vocal resonance.
Tim Squirrell, a researcher at the Alt-Right Open Intelligence Initiative at the University of Amsterdam, used Google’s BigQuery to analyze “every Reddit comment ever made—all 3 billion of them.” He used the results to identify different alt-right groups and the language they use.
Focusing on The_Donald, I used a script that lets you see which words are most likely to occur in the same comment. Combining this with a tool that allows you to look at the overlap in commenters between different parts of Reddit, I found that the alt-right isn’t just one voice: It’s made up by distinct constituencies that share different opinions and ways to express them, identifiable by the language they use and the other communities they post in.
In other words, there’s a taxonomy of trolls. So who are they, and what language do they use?
Here are the groups and their favorite words:
4chan shitposters: kek, Pepe, deus vult, tendies, God Emperor Trump
someone in my target language: hi :)! how are you?
me and Duolingo in haunting unison: the boys have the pears
In the context of harassment, though, the possibility of neurodivergence is almost solely deployed in order to protect men and absolve them of responsibility for inappropriate and harmful behavior – based on the intensely ableist, patronizing, and incorrect, but nonetheless potent and common, assumption that an ASD would render the man either incapable of acting appropriately or requiring/deserving of protection from any consequences for invasive or harassing actions. Meanwhile, women are assumed to be not only capable of, but actively responsible for, either giving up their boundaries or enforcing them in a way that protects the feelings and dignity of the person who is violating them. The possible impact of neurology or disability on their own methods of handling the situation is not considered. As a result, “But what if he’s autistic?” leaves the neurodivergent woman doubly burdened, both by a male-privileging culture which excuses misbehavior and protects harassers in any way possible including baseless speculations on neurology, and by the erasure and denial of her own experiences as a disabled woman.
When I’ve seen the issue of neurodivergent women discussed (usually in material written by women, by the way), the message has generally been that women are supposed to enforce boundaries, autistic women are less able to do that, and therefore autistic women are more vulnerable. Autistic women are also supposed to be vulnerable because they have more difficulty telling when someone is dangerous, or encroaching on their boundaries in a manipulative way. Therefore, these writings conclude, we should teach women how to detect dangerous men and enforce boundaries.
Which is good advice from a self-protection point of view, but should happen alongside teaching men how to respect autistic women’s boundaries. I haven’t seen any examples of that. Have you?
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