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Whenever someone says "You have to judge [slave owner] by the standards people held at the time" I respond with "Okay, sure. What do you think their slaves thought of them? Or are you not thinking of THEM as people with opinions and morals?"
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwòimo it's almost certainly false that people did not have critiques and concerns with sexual violence, slavery etc that at the very least substantively overlap with modern ones. whether or not they got to write epics revered and remembered by the leaders of the slave societies of the day es otra cosa
A lot of people act like the M/M romance fandom is a progressive place of queer acceptance - "if they were homophobic, why read M/M?" But the reality is a lot of these women are deeply homophobic and are into M/M romance specifically BECAUSE they see it as dangerous and taboo and therefore enticing
Benjanun Sriduangkaew @ Persephone Effect out now'Last year, I got married and I posted a honeymoon vlog. And at some point in that video, my wife kissed me on my head. Probably the first time that my wife has kissed me on this channel. And I lost subscribers. Not a few, a lot.'
Remember how I've been saying all the furor from centrists directed at The Groups was basically suicidal because "managing relations with The Groups better" was basically The Reason why centrists defeated progressives in primaries in 2016 and 2020? Well...
brent sewer socialist🚰🌹holy shit, new State Navigator Wisconsin poll
Expecting an academic to prioritize profit over an honest, expert evaluation sounds like exactly the opposite of what we want from academics, no?
G. Willow WilsonNot sure I’d shit on something that helped me sell half a million copies of my book, personally
The modern American working class - at least, the young working class - is mostly college-educated.
Dean Haddix“It has been a pretty big lie people [have] told themselves on here that working class people are closet leftists,” Neera Tanden, the president of Center for American Progress, posted on X. “They are in fact much more moderate than college educated folks.”
I joke here, but I've come to believe the obsession with means-testing isn't entirely ideological, or a way of undermining programs: they just consider "government bureaucrats" their friends and allies and see means-testing as a way to make jobs for them
Doc Vivi's Personal AccountThe Democratic Party is an elaborate grift for turning money spent on social programs into bureaucrat salaries, lmao
Something to say about how all these actual plans for "compromising" on trans issues are just "the Democratic Party's current position but also activists stop asking for more" Like they're not actually coming up with a new plan at all, the plan is just "activists shut up please"
Corinne Greeni want to make it clear that i'm consistent: i condemn this shit even from people i think of as friends. caleb & i poured over novel anti-trans bills together. often he was the only one who saw the same horrors as me - analysis that's been proven to be bang on. he has not responded to my text yet.
The Democratic Party is an elaborate grift for turning money spent on social programs into bureaucrat salaries, lmao
Erica C. BarnettThe Seattle City Council just voted 6-3 to approve Joy Hollingsworth's amendment to delay universal school lunches for kids, replacing them with vouchers for qualifying low-income parents to buy groceries over school breaks and weekends. Eddie Lin, Alexis Mercedes Rinck, and Rob Saka voted no.
This is the kind of thing that makes perfect sense if you only think about it in the abstract without actually talking to trans women Because, of course, the reality is pre-transition transbians get called gay for actually LIKING and WANTING TO HANG OUT WITH women, instead of merely coveting them
Winter"Trans women who like girls didn't get homophobic abuse when they were children because they were perceived as straight boys" I can see how a person would think that, but it sure wasn't my experience.