SanDiegoJuryDuty
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SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Causing offense does not cause me any alarm compared to causing death. In fact, some level of offense is inevitable in a world where people only have control over their own feelings, no?
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
If someone shoots up a school, there's a non-zero chance I'm gonna call them a bad name because I disapprove of their actions. I really don't think it matters if kids are dead and someone gets misgendered or called a "nigger."
NB I don't think it matters in any case, because I was raised that 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me.' But I especially don't care about their feelings if they shot up a school
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
At least one of the Uvalde cops, if I remember correctly, had a child inside the school and was restrained from entering. Still trying to get my head around the videos of all that beyond a dismissive 'people get weird in weird situations'
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Apparently we are not allowed to know, as Nashville PD has announced they will not be releasing the manifesto
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
In my experience it's not that they 'don't believe' it as much as they are not even familiar with concepts like predestination. Typically, they get angry and confused when you bring it up
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
"The Unbearable Whiteness of Non-Violence: an exploration into the racist origins of mass shootings"
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Tom Buchanan was written as gauche and pigheaded for vaguely and verbally opposing whatever term you'd like to apply to this broad phenomena (maybe black empowerment?) in the last 20's - so there's that
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
This could reasonably be considered by some as cloying virtue signaling
Christ was so nervous beforehand that he sweat blood and he cried out 'father why have you forsaken me' on the cross. You don't have to smile and wave as you're crucified, not even Christ did that.
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
Half of black Americans declined to say it was okay to be white. Yes, it was just one poll. But isn't that the only part of this story that can reasonably be labeled 'crazy'?
SanDiegoJuryDuty
1yr ago
a cringeworthy time capsule of Lost Cause mythology
If you're supposed to be some kind of community leader this kind of 'boo outgroup' seems beneath you. It's only 'cringeworthy' to look at the contemporary state of the South and suggest that a different course might not have been better, perhaps one not mandated at the end of a barrel by Others.
Oh yeah, ‘but what about China’ is already making the rounds: https://twitter.com/scobleizer/status/1641003564876087297?s=46&t=eRxnX0CnaM1TjjUItEyBeQ
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