Even if a majority if indigenous folks didn’t mind the label, it’s still a label born of ignorance. It’s not like it becomes just OK because the surviving oppressed minority incorrectly labelled that way by the colonists are OK with it.

yeah, I’m not really doubting OP’s intentions, I’m just trying to clue them in to how others might see their post so they aren’t surprised if it gets flagged

I think race issues were apparent to me as a young child, but it took the form of feeling insecure and unsure how to interact with racial minority peers of mine in school and so on, not wanting to make them feel uncomfortable but feeling fragile around them and thus accidentally introducing stigma. It was an awful feeling, and something that just didn’t happen with other students.

I think there is so much you can do for how you look - skin care, hydration, diet, exercise, etc. can radically change the way a person looks - but I tend to agree that personality matters much more. My point is that most people seem to get lost trying to make themselves physically attractive, and incel culture like looksmaxxing seem to fall into that logic as well, but they miss that the bar is lower than they expect. And of course, your point is missed by this community as well - that looks are even less important overall than how you hold yourself and interact, etc. - the mental stuff is the most important. Luckily good diet, hydration, and exercise help with that too!

Ah good point, this was like junior or senior year, I guess I thought of them as women.

I bet this person called themselves a Christian.

then how do you explain the y in papaya? checkmate professor

My chemistry teacher didn’t understand why consumers complain about pesticides, since she claimed you could just rinse them off easily (which isn’t entirely accurate). She got cancer shortly after.

My anatomy and physiology teacher told the class he believed the entire Middle East should be nuked, after showing the wikipedia article on Ross Perot and talking about how the country is in decline because Perot lost the presidential election.

He also body shamed women during class, and told women that if they are behind on cooking dinner they can just throw some garlic and onion in a pan and their husbands would smell the good aromas and not know any better.

He also required students to dance and he video recorded every dance, this was not optional and had nothing to do with the curriculum, but it was treated very seriously like an end-of-class thesis. It doesn’t take much of an imagination to worry about what he was doing with those video tapes. This was at the same high school where it turns out one of the coaches was molesting the students.

thank you 😅

also it’s probably more important to not be too unattractive - people are focusing too much on the ceiling but they need to focus on the floor

Just a warning, your question might be interpreted as violating rule 5:

Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

That said, I don’t see why cringing about racism is controversial, if anything it’s the majority view that racism is bad.

If you are genuinely interested in learning about where racism comes from, feel free to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism

Aristotle for example argued that non-Greek slaves innately lacked a will and thus depended on their Greek masters as rulers the way children depend on their parents (he made similar arguments justifying the supremacy of men over women). These views have a long history, and it’s worth learning about. You might start with the culture you are in (not sure if you’re from the U.S. or not) and read a few academic primers about race and the history of race in your culture.

You might also wonder what race is, and for philosophical questions about race I would start here: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/race/

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Being a woman is “marked” while being a man is just the default, so anything that strays from the “default” sticks out and it seems reasonable that it requires justification. This goes in reverse in some cases, like the need to refer to someone as a “male nurse” - why do we feel we need to say this? Because the default nurse is assumed to be female.

or go to archive.ph and check to see if they have the de-paywalled version

You have to remember that one of his main constituents are the Reagan neoliberals and right-wing libertarians, so one of his main promises to these constituents is to reduce government. There is no further justification necessary, he is removing government regulation and bureaucracy, which is seen as a win by his constituents.

Reading between the lines, while some right-wing libertarians will claim the whole government is a problem, the movement is funded by the rich and the political focus is pointed more at destroying regulations on corporations that impede irresponsible and unethical methods of profiteering, like the way the CFPB protects consumers from companies that commit fraud.

rsync is not really comparable to syncthing, it’s like comparing Excel to C++ or something. I need to be able to get lay people to install and use it, and syncthing has a UI that allows this while even I would have to do some work to get rsync to do everything syncthing is doing for me right now.

reminds me when I used the restroom the other day and a giant roll of toilet paper was just laying on the ground because there was nowhere else for it to go and the previous roll was out and the dispenser has a lock on it

is there a more efficient alternative that isn’t centralized?

Remember when MP3 players were a thing? Well I still listen to mp3 files, but I can’t put them on my smartphone because manufacturers artificially reduce storage size on phones to force people to use cloud services, and the available mp3 players that accept microSD cards are remarkably bad in many ways. It makes me pessimistic about tech in general, there is no sense of humanism or building progress, that in the future the products will be easier or better. Based on current trends, it seems like in the future the tech will just be more exploitative and consumers are just captive at this point.

I live in America, people here operate in the opposite fashion of a hive - in a hive the organism is the collective, and the individual is just a part of the whole. In the U.S. many people refuse to take minimal actions to benefit others and even themselves out of the perception that it might be viewed as collectivist.

social politeness has gone too far \s

tbh I have daily interactions with real humans in the flesh that make me think more people should be concerned about their actions and words than they are, lol

though the habituation of state and corporate surveillance is disturbing and should be combated fr