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Here's a metaphor you can maybe relate to more. Pseudofolliculitis barbae is the name for the bacterial rash that men can get on their face from shaving. While white men sometimes get mild razor bumps due to old razors, acne, etc, 80 percent of black men get Pseudofolliculitis barbae specifically every time they shave. It's a problem I struggled with before I transitioned and lasered that poo poo off. Because this problem is widespread among black men and rare among whites, there's a ton of products marketed specifically to black men to either ease or replace shaving your face. This stuff is formulated to deal with the specific bacterial infection pain that comes from shaving for black men. Yeah it'll make a white guy's bumps feel better, but it's not primarily for that. Now imagine a product you've used all your life to help you shave (partially to meet white people's expectations of personal grooming) starts adding whiten guys to its ads and comparing common razor bumps to a problem unique to African American men. You wouldn't feel the least bit like your problems were being claimed by whites? Like you were being pushed out of your space? It's the gentrification of grooming. Black women have long had to go to extremes to make their hair meet white peoples standards lest it hurt their career or social life. Do you not see the problem in then turning around and telling white women their hair is just like ours?
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I was really hoping it was going to end with "and I realized that mixing cultures is a good and special trait of America" but I should have known better.
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Apr 27, 2017 23:50
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there wolf posted:Hey now, he's all about the brotherhood of man. It's just black people need to be less offputting to white suburbanites on their way to the airport for us to achieve it. Brotherhood of man but no brothers of the hood man.
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Apr 28, 2017 02:02
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Paracaidas posted:It's a tough spot for the creative staff. White supremacy and the resulting exclusivity absolutely is a part of the source material, and for specific reasons. On the other hand, locking actors and actresses out from a piece of prestige award bait based on race perpetuates an ongoing problem in Hollywood. christians: equally discriminated as trans people. ell oh ell. THIS IS AN AFETITS ONLY BAHTROOM XTIAN SCUM.
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May 8, 2017 19:55
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Megaspel posted:"Black people" has the same amount of characters as "Trans people", yet they chose to label it "Blacks"? If you want to have an honest discussion, what do you actually object to about this. It's pretty normal specifically in demographic research to contract group labels this way. I can only imagine they selected "Trans people" because "transgenders" isn't a real word and there was no established term in the field, whereas "blacks" and "latinos", for better or for worse, have a long history of usage in demographic study.
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May 10, 2017 21:26
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Megaspel posted:Maybe I'm overreacting, it just really stood out to me, isn't it normalizing dehumanizing language? I'm absolutely not at all familiar with demographic research, but I don't know that something being used for a long time is great justification. I mean, yes, but also academic writing tends to have really strict styles that they have to hold to and it's slow to change. It's not as big a deal because the intention is clearly not malicious, vs some loon ranting about "the blacks".
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May 10, 2017 21:39
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Panfilo posted:Goddamn that was loving awful. That poor woman never got a chance to have a normal life, it was always in service of that family. Anytime you encounter a prostitute or exotic dancer flip a coin. Heads? That person is a slave. It's insanely common. I wonder how much of the reaction to this story in particular is that she was a domestic slave rather than a sex worker. It certainly adds a layer of "closer to home" to it.
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May 17, 2017 13:55
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Sheriff David Clarke is now officially assistant secretary of the DHS. I actually think this is an improvement because the DHS has a ton of bureaucracy to keep him from changing/disregarding policy and procedure on a whim like he does in Milwaukee, and federal appointees have much more potent oversight than "hope Scott Walker does a good thing, ever". Maybe people will stop dying in county jail constantly now. As an assistant secretary, how much damage is he even in a position to do on his own? I know there's probably going to be 100x the "race traitor" hot takes now when he says something stupid though.
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May 19, 2017 05:22
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HotCanadianChick posted:So this was passed to me last night by a friend, it is an email replying to a craigslist ad seeking to add PoC rappers to form a local political, pro-Black hip-hop group: Lol. I go to all the meetings and nobody who hangs with black people talks like that.
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May 26, 2017 05:08
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silvergoose posted:There sure are some racist Star Trek fans who are unhappy about the cast of the new series. My only problem with it is they buried it on a pay to watch web thing where no one will watch it.
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May 27, 2017 16:00
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I've been way too busy to add any more shows to my weekly schedule. I'll have to binge watch it at some point.
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Jun 1, 2017 20:21
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biracial bear for uncut posted:A white dude gets eaten by a goddess's vagina (a goddess that is also black) in the opening episode. They probably aren't fans of that imagery either. In the new season of Twin Peaks something horrible happens almost immediately after every time you have the required "Showtime Boobs" shots and I've heard guys getting really upset about booby scenes being ruined with gore and horror. Knowing Lynch it's very deliberate. Glad to see another premium cable show subverting the mandatory nudity a bit.
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Jun 1, 2017 21:41
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Religulous was offensive too. Thdt whole smug "believing in things is stupid" bullshit makes the rest of us atheists who respect religious people look bad.
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Jun 4, 2017 22:54
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seiferguy posted:I just came across this, and well, uh... This lady was on Botched last week trying to get them to give her giant butt implants. She is mentally ill, to say the least, and has a creepy enabler boyfriend who uses her as a doll for his fetishes. The whole situation is way sadder than Rachel Dolezal who has no mental illness aside from ignorance afaict
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Jun 25, 2017 23:08
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Morby posted:The thing is people who already don't believe in transgender issues point to Dolezal and say "Well if you think that Caitlynn Jenner is a woman, how come you don't think Rachel Dolezal is black?" why is it our responsibility to answer to someone's ignorance? if they can't see the difference, gently caress 'em. I just wanted to provide some context for this other woman because she's super obviously mentally impaired and being guided around by a terrifying fetishist which just makes the whole situation sadder. Dolezal has all the tools to know better and just willfully won't make the connections.
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Jun 26, 2017 04:41
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Dexo posted:tbh I wouldn't care who someone loved and married so long as we were able to confirm with 100% certainty that the other party(goat, or whatever) was able to consent to it. I get where you're coming from, but engaging a disingenuous argument even to this point just encourages them. The only good response is to say "don't be stupid" and walk away.
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Jun 26, 2017 16:06
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The Insect Court posted:The problem with that argument, Tiny Brontosaurus, is that gay people are people and Black people are people and trans people are people but goats are not people. Therefore the way 'goat marriage' and gay marriage are unanalogous is dissimilar to the way transgenderism and transracialism are being compared in your argument. gently caress off. and "transgenderism" isn't a word fucker.
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Jun 26, 2017 22:43
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there wolf posted:Are you kidding. That's the name of my new experimental synth album. my bands name is homosexualism.
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Jun 27, 2017 01:20
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Reflections85 posted:Not to defend any other claim the rear end in a top hat is making, but it kind of is. Julia Serano goes into a pretty nice history of its use and the recent trend against its use. She's citing people like Kate Bornstein to support this usage which doesn't pass the smell test with me since Bornstein also advocates using "tranny" as a primary identity word for trans people. The earliest usage I can find is The International Journal of Transgenderism, which is the journal of WPATH. But it was named that back when WPATH was still called the Harry Benjamin Society, a name denoting the outdated belief that being transgender results from a mental developmental disorder. What I'm getting at here is that its roots are absolutely in identifying trans identities as a disorder. We can debate reclaiming words (there's even a thread for it), but I'm not a fan of reclaiming tbh and it especially doesn't belong in the mouth of a piece of poo poo like the insect court. edit: also, as far as I can tell with search, this is not only your only post in this thread but your only post about transgender issues at all. Did you just google the first blog you could find that mentioned the word so you could score points? The MUMPSorceress fucked around with this message at 04:46 on Jun 27, 2017 |
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Jun 27, 2017 04:43
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Are we forgetting n word stomper? There's a guy named jew killer 3000 too.
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Jun 28, 2017 05:24
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Yeah I have it on good authority he was permabanned lol
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Jun 28, 2017 16:03
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ArfJason posted:while i am 100% behind probating + banning that insect guy, please refrain from posting the bad giphy tier gifs ty gently caress off
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Jun 28, 2017 23:15
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:It was a real "qcs regular" thing to say. Bunch of dry boys keep whining about KM using gifs as a proxy for whining about a black mod. This. Also I'm feeling super touchy today since all my trolls synced up cycles or something.
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Jun 29, 2017 01:51
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KirbyKhan posted:Even though anime is bad, it is still alive. Posting regularly in QCS is like being Statler and/or Waldorf at this dead gay comedy forum's open casket. hey, can we not call things "gay" pejoratively in this forum, thanks
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Jun 29, 2017 20:20
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HotCanadianChick posted:I didn't think you were a Trump supporter, but it felt uncomfortably like you were implying things might get better now that wannabe ringwraith Bannon is out, and I just couldn't stay silent on that. I am extremely uncomfortable with this fake urban speak you keep doing.
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Aug 24, 2017 18:41
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Isn't it magic to discover what's growing out of your head isn't just faulty white-people hair, but something that can actually look good in its own way? I am still trying to get my hair completely on lock. I moved to a new area and the stylists here all seem to cater to other minority groups with really straight hair. I have a routine that sort of works but involves am excessive amount of Lush products and I can't help but feel my hair could be way better if I could find a stylist who knew anything about mixed hair.
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Aug 26, 2017 01:09
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I would advise looking for a biracial stylist. I never get good results unless the person working on my hair has my hair type. Have you tried looking on facebook? That's a thing? I've always found stylists by word of mouth. All the ones I've seen so far are white or Asian. I've got an appointment with a white lady because it's been 4 months since I had my color redone and my roots are so bad but if you have tips on finding better stylists I can definitely use them for the next go round.
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Aug 26, 2017 01:59
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HotCanadianChick posted:^^^^^^ I'm like somewhere between 3A and B but closer to A, and way too pale to pull off headwraps. I'm only 1/4 (and 1/4 blackfoot) and my hair is p much my most black feature. I aborted on an attempt to grow locks before I transitioned too because even though they came in super naturally (I p much just ripped them in a little bit and let them go, none of the crazy backcombing and waxing stoner kids do) it was drawing a lot of comments from both white and black acquaintances that made it clear that no one on either side understood why I was doing it (which was that I'd given up on finding a stylist in white-rear end Madison that could handle my hair at all  ).My hair is pretty much a microcosm of my relationship with blackness. Until I was ten I thought I had a "jew fro" because my mom "protected" me from the knowledge I was black (granted at the behest of my black grandfather who told her never to contact them again or tell me about them, that's some poo poo). After she finally told me my hair was still just a tangly puffy mess because my mom had no clue how to care for it so I was just using the Aussie products everyone else in my house used. In high school I gave up and shaved my head. Then I didn't cut it again until I was 20 (which was 5 years later cuz I skipped a grade then didn't get into any schools I could afford on my first try after graduating). Then I bounced around from stylist to stylist never quite finding anything that worked right before giving up and starting the locks. Then I had to abandon that, then I transitioned (fortunately I got the locks out without too much cutting so I had a head start on growing my hair out) and now I get to fight with finding a stylist that is trans friendly (and can handle a masculinized hairline) in addition to multiracial friendly. So basically the story of having no clue who I am and my mom not having the ability to support me outside of her own white context.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:"[marginalized group] has a problem that needs solving." Retail thread? gently caress that guy
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Aug 26, 2017 23:54
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blackguy32 posted:I am still stuck in the great Houston flood of 2017. I can't really go very far due to the water level and my car being too low. Are you in any imminent danger or mostly just stuck annoyingly? How hard should I panic?
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Aug 29, 2017 00:56
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this isn't worth bumping the appropriate thread for, but holy crap is av club just facilitated the whitest cover of a song by a black artist i've heard this year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Q7uXyDF_g I think the sunglasses put it over the edge into a hate crime. edit: the guy wearing a button up shirt over another button up shirt is literally hitler.
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Aug 30, 2017 06:53
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:I have done nothing of the kind I'm starting to think mod indifference to racial issues is just because they make so much money off people red titling you and you having to re reg. The forums racism is structural.
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Aug 31, 2017 04:55
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I don't know who picked it but A+++ good job would rowdy up racists again
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Panfilo posted:How many other games out there use racial privilege as a difficulty slider? in morrowind the redguards, the only black race, have an ability called adrenaline boost that gives a bonus to their strength and athleticism
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Sep 12, 2017 03:43
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Forceholy posted:Ryan Reynolds is the perfect supporting action for a movie like that, but even he could only do so much. I unabashedly love blade and blade 3 is fun as hell. I love the detail that Wesley snipes is insane and insists on remaining in character at all times while filming blade movies as though the character is so complex as to require that.
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Sep 18, 2017 18:40
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biracial bear for uncut posted:I'm not sure how much influence the guy in this video actually has, but hot drat it's about time somebody said what he said in the last few minutes of the video. He's in charge of the air force academy. He's got a lot of influence.
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Sep 29, 2017 18:29
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Lightning Knight posted:There are some serious systemic problems with religious discrimination and fundamentalist take over in the Air Force generally and the Air Force Academy specifically, a lot of the fundamentalist super churches set up shop around the academy to indocrinate the classes as they come. I can't even imagine being a POC or a sexual or religious minority at the Air Force Academy, the stories that come out of there are nothing short of nightmarish. Yeah, the air force is not as cool as Stargate made it look 
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Sep 29, 2017 19:23
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:Today I asked a white man why he thought it was okay to call me "it" and he said: I agree with your frustration, but maybe you should black his name put so you don't get accused of doxxing him.
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Tiny Brontosaurus posted:It's not a real name. D'oh
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