Why does anyone think the squiggly red line signals something that’s always optional at this point?

Dahl was a great author but wasn’t a very pc person , his family have had to apologise for his anti semitism.

That is putting it very mildly.

"There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere. Even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

He said that in *checks notes* 1971.

Worse, it was in response to criticism to an article he wrote that was justifiably criticizing Israel at a time when it wasn’t so popular to do so. And when he was accused of the old “you’re anti-Israel, so you’re anti-semitic” nonsense, he decided to go, “hell yeah I am!”

Cool. One person talks about a trans agenda in this thread, another person is making up silly medical conspiracies to dehumanize trans people as if they had no agency.

Teenagers don’t even go to doctors by themselves. They have to be accompanied by a parent.

Me. They’re including me.

No trans person has ever done anything bad to anyone I care about.

All Republicans have.

Interesting! I had no idea. Thanks!

So basically, everyone involved in this incident is a terrible person. Lovely.

Clearly, Putin should just be allowed to take whatever he wants. Thanks for clearing that up for us.

That’s literally what has happened.

It would behoove you to read this. Especially the part about the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)

I would also suggest you think about your privilege and what it might mean to a person of color to hear “we changed the name back to the name of the racist guy, but it’s actually a different guy that we found with the exact same name so it’s totally different and you have no reason to be offended” and change “racist guy” to “the guy who raped your sister.”

I used to work for a local TV station as a videographer. We always had to go out and get “highlights” of high school and college sports games in the area. Football was by far the worst, because it could literally take you an hour to get any 10-15 seconds of footage that was usable.

I hated football before that. Now I really hate football.

Wait until they go after women who have medically necessary hysterectomies.

The incarceration rate? The thing you said had to do with poverty? Are you not reading your own posts?

If it were largely to do with poverty, it would not be so radically higher for black women.

Easier to get a job if you’re white whether male or female, easier to get a loan, a home, anything that requires someone to approve what you’re doing. Also easier if you’re a black man. If you’re a black woman? Especially one with a “black” name? You’re often fucked. Many studies have shown this.

And then there’s the incarceration rate.

https://www.nbwji.org/post/extreme-sentences-disproportionately-impact-and-harm-black-women

It means that white women have a lot less to worry about right now.

White women will not have that level of worry until long after the black women are gone.

Sure, just as well off… like all the women in concentration camps the original lot took as “mistresses” before murdering them anyway.

White women will be in a utopia compared to black women, who are already at the bottom in American society.

Exactly what that they are doing is not a distraction? Because every single time they say or do anything, someone on Lemmy says it’s a distraction.

Now even announcing they will invade Gaza is a distraction?

Literally what is not a distraction?