Hey.... no love for the USA Women’s Volleyball team?!? They beat the Brazilian team for Gold on the last day. Those women are the bomb. That straight sets take down of Brazil in the final was epic, especially with two of their key players on the sideline with ankle injuries.

The American women 4x400 team is so dominant that even the coach of the Poles, who were one of the other medal favourites, told his team “thinking of beating the Americans is an illusion, focus on beating the Jamaicans for silver.”

Does it matter though? If the sound actually does sound like the N-word, or if it doesn’t sound like the N-word but every English speaker who knows the word will hear the N-word when this sound happens, isn’t the end result the same - a growl that “sounds like” a slur and should be changed?

audio pareidolia is a real thing but you’re 100% wrong about it in this case. it’s not audio pareidolia because the people playing the game were not primed to hear it.

Except the people initially reacting to it had no prior knowledge that the slur is in the game.

Sounds like someone put one of the many times Stinkmeaner from Boondocks screams that word and put it in the game.

It's almost as if the context were more important than the pronunciation

Every zombie in the plague is some Redcap that shouted getting infected/bitten by zombies was their god given right, and it’s Communism to try and stop it.   Screaming the N-word as they charge others in their undeath is spot-on world building.  

It does make sense. I mean, based on current real world information, racists are among the group least likely to seek out vaccinations or other medical assistance in the event of a zombie plague. I bet they just lost their MAGA hats in the zombie shuffle.

White people always have an excuse they allow to no one else.

“Meghan and I have a lot in common,” Sinema said. “We’re both from Arizona, we love cacti... I think we’re both tough as nails, and we’re both fiercely independent.”

Happens all the time, especially with black women. See also Ciara, Michelle Obama, plenty of others. It’s an attempt to rob them of their femininity, which they are often using to their advantage to help them succeed in a shitty misogynist world. And helps insecure men feel better about the fact that these women are…

Tutti Frutti is about anal sex performed by a flamboyant queer black man in the 50s. This shit ain’t new.

 Not to defend anything that happened but to be fair to the airline or at least airline staff they are likely required to report by law or company policy. 

Ovaries of steel.

That part about not being able to eject her from the mall killed me. Since fucking when? I remember the cops who patrolled the mall near my high school acting with near impunity. Their mission: Identify any time more than two Black or Brown kids got within 20 feet of each other, then come charging in to break up “gang…

I’ve learned how to play drums and when I started lessons the teacher asked “what kind of drummers do you enjoy listening to?” my answer was “Dave Grohl” because when he’s interviewed he has no snobbery about what is and isn’t “real music”.

So he went all out and spent time and money being the most racist he could be, instead of giving some thought to maybe getting some shades to make up for the loss of natural shade?

I simply don’t understand being this pressed over a tree.