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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • And what kills me is that continually trotting out “for the children” as an automatic “gotcha” watchword lessens the public concern for actual children and muddies the proverbial pond with regards to the actual effective/productive methods for actually protecting children.

    There should be a rule about using “think of the children”/“support our troops” where you have to actually be doing something that directly and proportionally affects the group you’re referencing in a positive manner commensurate with the amount of money that’s being funnelled into the effort.

    That and no shilling for cancer research donations just to spend it on yachts and advertising or whatever.















  • I think the fact that there are so many bigots out there being disproportionately vocal and often working to recruit others to their way of thinking with couched language and dogwhistles make it too easy for some people to assume that anyone speaking negatively of an oppressed group is a bigot.

    The trick is usually identifying whether the negativity is about “all” of a group, or just some of them, but subtlety can be challenging in a text only format at times, especially if stuff ever gets taken out of context.