Hey, it’s your own fault. Every Bethseda game is a buggy, clunky mess. Every Bethseda game has bollocks graphics. Every Bethseda game has crappy game mechanics that don’t work as intended. And still, every Bethseda game is the best thing ever and has gamers raving for years and years. Bethseda are great at…

Don’t try to tell me what’s good for me thanks. No spoilers.

I use chats a lot and those filters are garbage. Anybody who wants to can circumvent them by using odd spellings. They do nothing to improve the quality of the chat. They only get in the way of ‘legitimate’ language. For example, in Australian English ‘snicker’ is ‘snigger’. But not on American chats. It’s irritating…

I’ll never understand how somebody who claims to love animals can keep pets at all. Why do you think all that ‘euthanasia’ happens?

Hey folks, if you think keeping dogs is ok then you’re also fine with stray dogs in the street, playing at being eugenecists, and having genocide centres all over the country specifically for your most beloved animals. Pet culture just wouldn’t survive without it. Not to mention you also have no problem with the…

Do Star Wars fans really think they’re the underdog nerds bucking the mainstream? Now? Or even then? o.O

I expect nothing less from the Fascist States of America and its citizens.

It’s funny because it’s true!!

Now five years ago if you had said such a thing around here the majority opinion would be that you were mentally ill. They’d talk about ‘blacks’ being prone to certain diseases. They’d talk about gene tests that purport to identify what ‘race’ you are (as opposed to ancestry, they’re not the same). People have come…

The history of ‘race’-ism is jam packed full of well intentioned, nice liberal folks. Most of whom take the existence of a ‘white race’ entirely for granted. De-constructing ‘whiteness’ is even more terrifying for them than the prospect of Kylie Jenner’s cornrows blurring the line between ‘black’ and ‘white’. Even…

Not good enough. We have two meanings of ‘race’-ism now. An academic perspective which views it as institutional process and sees ‘races’ as constructed myths, and a colloquial and, frankly, delusional perspective which views ‘races’ as genetically distinct subspecies of human being. To the latter all that is needed…

Any ‘white person’ who even takes the idea of ‘white people’ seriously is part of the problem.

Which would be completely missing the point. In case you haven’t heard, the ‘white race’ and, by extension, all other ‘races’ are myth. Harmful myth whose sole purpose is to justify and rationalise injustice and inequality within a society that believes itself enlightened. This is about much more than privilege.

What is ‘ghosting’?

This is how it happens in the USA anyway. The vast majority have ‘mixed’ ancestry from only a few generations ago. But dark skinned individuals are encouraged to identify as ‘black’ while light skinned individuals are encouraged to identify as ‘white’. Only in the USA there’s a few layers of pseudoscience and,…

Asserting your own confused idea of what ‘blacks’ and ‘whites’ are on top of everybody else’s confused ideas of what ‘blacks’ and ‘whites’ are is no way to go about de-constructing ‘race’. The particulars of these women’s obsession with the non-thing ‘race’ is irrelevant. The problem is that they think this non-thing…

It’s true. Racist policies are bi-partisan. The left, after all, are still mostly white people. Personally, I find leftist racists far more infuriating because their pious halos and complete lack of self-awareness make them really hard to fight.

Oh crap, I came here from an fb link and I’ve only now just realised how old this article is. Nvd.

Yes, but no. There is a class of people who’ll habitually use that word in Australia, derogatorily referred to as ‘bogans’. Most of us would only use it to refer to somebody we really hate. And it’s usually used to refer to men, not women.