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Whenever I hear people disparagingly referred to as rats or pigs or something like that... Even when I agree they're doing bad or terrible things and I know what the people saying it mean, it always makes me a little uncomfortable.

He's not calling the casualties themselves squirters... I'm not trying to defend him, he's still unbelievably callous and perversely preoccupied, but that's not what he said.

So I guess I can see that "squirter" has a kind of military jargon definition, but for him to use that word and the quickly follow it up with "stiffen"... I dunno... sometimes a cigar isn't just a cigar

While there is a modern usage to refer to recasting roles of character of color with white actors, there is an older still valid meaning of deliberately concealing unpleasant or incriminating facts about someone, from the still older practice of painting walls and buildings with whitewash.

They censored when another presenter mentioned Palestine, so we know they had the capability to censor things both technically and physically. They explicitly chose not to censor that slur.

Oh wait, there’s more. BBC chose not to bleep out the slur even as they did bleep out a reference to Palestine 🤬🤬🤬

Surely somebody has pointed out that buses are, in fact, capable of changing their destination for a variety of reasons and with varying frequency? Even that all important label is specifically designed to be easy to change. It's still a bad metaphor but I mean...

I am very grateful for your thoughts in this thread.

If you can’t acknowledge this, you’re too racist to do any analysis about the incident
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Anyway, on a related note: BAFTA chose not to nominate British-born Delroy Lindo for his performance in Sinners and that’s just straight up racist bullshit

Nobody and no condition made them do it either

After I heard about the incident a few hours ago, I spent some time reading about N-word tics and intrusive thoughts and what I came away with was a feeling of deepened anger about the way white supremacist society has associated “Black person” with this word so it’s there, in people’s brains

I agree completely and without reservation, and I do not want in any way to obscure that that happened.

From what I understand about copralalia, it manifests in specifically saying the worst possible thing at the worst possible time. In the movie about his life one of the character's ticks is, "Dotty's gonna die of cancer" that he only said around a woman who was terminally ill.

Basically I think it just sucks all around. I can't imagine how Mr. Jordan and Mr. Lindo felt. They did not deserve that experience whether there was intent behind it or not. The intent does not factor into how it affected them (and everybody else listening).

Coprolalia is so distressing because it causes legitimate harm. It seems a little analagous to somebody severely mentally impaired who might lash out and physically harm others. They're still really hurt and do not deserve that treatment, and at the same time there was no malicious intent.

Apparently for about 10-30% of people with TD it manifests as coprolalia. I think for most those individuals they are pretty aware that their ticks cause harm and they feel a lot of shame about it. Which also does not invalidate the reactions of people exposed to slurs or other vile language.

I don't think that's what OP was suggesting...

I really appreciate that you always include links in these threads. Dramatically increases the likelihood that I'll follow through and add to wishlist or purchase.

Also it's genuinely very weird when you're listening to a series and then the narrator changes for the next book and the characters you know all have different voices.

I was listening to a book when suddenly there was a character with a speech imoedement, so the narrator decided to read those lines heavily garbled to the point where I genuinely couldn't understand. I checked with the text, other than mentioning the impediment, all the dialog was normal.

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

What was the removed by author "joke" in the first place?

That is too adorable to bear.

I love the era of technology when things like volume and tuning controls were "features" and not just the basic assumed essential working pieces of something like a radio. My dad used to talk about stereo ads with "VVC" (variable volume control). So novel they even made it an acronym!

Image of a peach and its slices arranged on a pink background, with a text overlay of a Twitter joke about the subtle beauty found in a woman's neck and shoulder area, shared by PinkNews.

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I was way into the Greek, and to a lesser degree Norse, myths as a kid and recognizing that crossover as an adult was really not a fun moment. I suspect many such cases.

Also I'm glad your "skepticism" is enough to embolden you to speak from wild ignorance about American Jewish history and traditions.

Sorry, is there some kind of method to read the original post as talking down to Muslims, Hindus and Sihks? Or are you upset that a joke about British antisemitism is not inclusive enough of the UK's other forms of racism and xenophobia? I'm genuinely confused here.

Also, it's a strange kind of allyship to wield the names of marginalized communities as a sort of cudgel to attack another.

Why would a Muslim, Hindu or Sihk be upset about a joke about how American Jewish traditions don't appear to be very common in the UK? There is more to the history of Jews going to the movies on Christmas than the coincidence that they happen to not celebrate that holiday.