shiftymccool
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- Comment on Size Matters? Penis Dissatisfaction and Gun Ownership in America 3 weeks ago:
I’ll just run on over to the Seinfeld community and start posting things about The IT Crowd and if they don’t like what’s being posted there then that community isn’t for them and that’s perfectly OK.
- Comment on Problem solved ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ 4 weeks ago:
Also pollinators love them!
- Comment on Craiglist's jokes forum is something else 1 month ago:
This comment is the best part of this post
- Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable 2 months ago:
So, we’re destined to make new words for colors because all the color words we have now are taboo?
Blackmail was used in England and Scotland to describe money paid by tenant farmers to a chieftan: history.com/…/where-did-the-word-blackmail-come-f…
Black sheep literally comes from black sheep. That one is really obvious… www.etymonline.com/word/black sheep
Black market was more associated with anarchists that used black as their color than actual black people. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_market
The goal here shouldn’t be changing peoples’ view on the concepts of white/black. We need to stop people from using those words to describe people. People (outside rare cases) are not BLACK or WHITE or YELLOW or RED, or… how about we use actual people names for people?
White and black as colors and concepts are too important to have to tippy-toe around. If something is black, I should be able to say so without getting internet-spanked. Etymology means something regardless of what anybody thinks. You can’t just make something racist because it has a color word in it.
Can everybody just stop looking for things to be mad about for a hot minute?
- Comment on An update to how many boring, repetitive communities I need to block to make Lemmy enjoyable 2 months ago:
The aren’t even racial terms, they were used for unionized vs. ununionized workers. Maybe we should be working on not calling people by color names. Not being able to use colors to describe things in the world because it is racially-adjacent is getting a bit difficult
- Comment on “Stop or I’ll Say Stop Again!” Yells Mom Known for Empty Threats 3 months ago:
Unpopular take: pain/discomfort is the only way nature can teach us what NOT to do until our brains can comprehend logic and consequence. Without the ability for a parent to cause pain or discomfort, the child (who has underdeveloped logic and concept of consequence) will percieve the parent as “that thing that makes angry noises but can’t hurt me” and won’t listen to them.
It’s all fine and dandy to be “friends” with your kid, but you also need to be the judge, jury, and executioner too
- Comment on Who has some 3 months ago:
Any chance we can get a Lemmy-wide ban on minions? Pretty please?