I think the crux of your argument breaks down when you assume intent is required to do damage to another person.

I am completely willing to give JJ the benefit of the doubt, and I am Chinese American, because he seems like a chill dude who has never had anything like this happen before.

But it’s horseshit to say we…

There is no way he has genitals. He’s just all....smooth

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When I answer “New York” and people say “no, but where are you from originally” or “but where are your parents from” they are questioning my nationality, tho. And that’s almost everybody.

The thing is, people bust out the “where are you from” at random moments in the conversation that don’t make sense. If we’re chatting about peanut butter and I say I only discovered it as an adult, of course I expect people to ask where I’m from, because kids who grew up in America know about peanut butter. But if…

I’m an American-born child of Chinese immigrants. While Bari’s comments (and subsequent “if you were offended, that says more about your intentions than mine!!!” response) were disappointing, to any POC, especially Latinix and Asian POC, this is exactly 0% shocking. We get othered all the time, even in the country of…

Yeah but it gets really really frustrating to be asked this over and over again. Especially when your answer isn’t always accepted. And its even more frustrating because its something you don’t see white people being asked.

(prefacing this with the experience I’m going to relate now is merely annoying and not in any way oppressive)

Fun fact: in an effort to have them overlook the doping scandal, the Russian Federation first tried to bribe the IOC officials. When they flat out refused the bribe, the Russians the offered to make a generous “donation” to the next IOC charity ball, to which the IOC responded: “We don’t have balls.”

If “ableism” means judging college-aged adults who take in animals and then cruelly kill them when they become inconvenient, then I hope it’s here to stay. Actually, “ableism” is prejudging to someone due to their mental or physical disability. We’re not doing that. We’re judging her by her disgustingly cruel actions…

Great game, but what a shitty person. As if “improving the core game” and doing whatever little production necessary to make the protagonist a woman (I didn’t even realize he was a man until I saw a silhouette of the mohawk — and even then, I’ve seen women with mohawks!) aren’t mutually exclusive, you can do both. And…

I’m sad for victims of childhood sexual abuse. Not the piece of shit who had 50,000 images of CSA and was too cowardly to go to prison for it.

Like how you borrow a book from the library and then “lose” it, except with priceless works of art.

whenever somebody uses the words liberal snowflake, they lose all credibility imo

Now you have an idea for sylvari #5.

We were not insured. We could never bring our older home up to code to afford insurance. My sister, who hosted the Gofund Me set our goal, to help us with immediate needs, such as housing and getting the demolition of our home started. We are only thinking of survival at the moment. We will never be able to replace…

There was a cause, a faulty dryer. Faulty electronics can cause fires as long as they’re plugged in; they don’t have to be in use.

Her real name sounds like a fake Guild Wars character too. Obviously a sylvari.