Hi, I’m also a white lady. It’s no one’s responsibility, in these incredibly difficult and important times, to “take time” and tell you, an incredibly privileged person, how you are seen by people of color. You do not get extra credit for doing what we should all already be doing.
I’m going to call bullshit on you attending protests and supporting anti-racist causes, or you wouldn’t post such an obnoxious Racism 101 question on a site like this.
If you’re not offended then this article isn’t about you.
The answer is probably somewhere between not going out of your way to be offended by someone trying to find humor in an extremely depressing scenario and not intentionally missing the point.
They look like typical white soccer moms (aka cunts) who demand to speak with the manager, yell at the teachers, think they’re entitled to getting at front of the line before anyone else, and act shocked when their li’l speshul snowflake kids get detention for bullying other students.
In fact, if you wrap a puppy in an American flag and put it on top of a pumpkin-spice gift certificate to Starbucks and tell a white woman you’re giving it to a soldier, she will spontaneously orgasm.
The women in that main image tho...
“It’s just shameful and it hurts me to see people taking a knee when we are supposed to be joyful about living in this country,” she said.
Patriotism is really just a performative aspect of nationalism, and nationalism is inherently majoritarian. In the US, that “majority”(in quotes because it doesn’t need to be an actual majority in numbers) has always been white and within certain boundaries.
The woman in that picture is not a patriot. She is a traitor. The essence of the American Revolution was about reason and The Enlightenment. It was about casting aside the fetishizing of idols and flags and the divine right of kings. These are ideals that our country has fallen far short of and still has a long way to…
Which can be countered with: “That Constitution you claim to uphold? Yeah, you can’t really pick and choose which parts of it you respect. This really is one of those “all or nothing” deals and if you fire me for exercising my 1st amendment rights, I’m going to sue your ass.” That’s the American way. And I hope to…
Someone else said it much better than I.
Never a bad time for my favorite photo.
As someone who is also husky (if women are allowed to be husky too) due to depression meds, thanks to everyone who is mentioning that. I eat healthy and carefully, and I exercise. It just doesn’t matter. Some of us have this side effect and there’s nothing we can do about it. The other side of the coin would be me off…
Please do not make fun of him (or others). I’m a psychiatrist, and rapid and extreme weight gain is a side effect of some of the best medications we have fore mood.
Man, there are so many deadly weapons cops have to face; their job just sounds terrifying. Let’s review:
Truly sickening.. I am deaf and I cannot hear... this is the reason why i stopped going to protests because I am terrified that a cop might shoot me if I don’t hear them yelling at me to step back or something like that... I am so freakin. SICK. AND. DAMN. TIRED. of these cops shooting people left and right. LEARN.…
I saw this as I scanned through movies yesterday on Netflix. I will watch it tonight! Great read...sad but great!
This is pretty rare. Usually in these videos, it’s the MTA fucking the passengers.