“Which do you want: the pain of staying where you are, or the pain of growth?”— Judith Hanson Lasater (via ginsengsheetmask)
I don’t get why people hate immigrants so much… Like they’re literally just… People… From another location….
He’s most likely educated, possibly a master’s degree in rhetoric. He could be a new atheist, possibly libertarian, most likely white. If you can’t smell his smugness, you can recognize him by the following tropes below.
Next time they use one of these on you, don’t waste your time. Copy and paste. Let them know they’re stereotyped.
The Pacifist
- The guy who’s always making that bigoted comment on your thread, and always ends with, “Let’s agree to disagree.” He may follow up with a disingenuous attempt at finding common ground.
- Example: I’m just saying, that if poor people worked harder, they wouldn’t have to depend on the government. You obviously don’t think so. No need to get upset. Let’s just agree to disagree. We can certainly find common ground with the fact that there are definitely some poor people that work very hard.
The Freedom Fighter
- More indignant than the smug pacifist, he feels you’re taking away his right to have an opinion.
- Example: I’m allowed to have an opinion about homosexuality. I’m allowed to express my beliefs. I’m allowed to disagree without being attacked.
The Anecdotally Privileged
- He’s white (and male) and he’s right. No matter what your experience is, his experience trumps it.
- Example: Well, I lived in New York City for three years and the NYPD has always treated me with respect.
The Wounded
- He responds with the old shock and awe routine about being misunderstood.
- Example: You know who I am. I’m not a bad person. How can you call me a sexist?
The Oppression Authority
- He married into oppression (or is friends with the oppressed or spent time working among the oppressed), so now his opinion should have gravitas.
- Example: My wife’s family is Mexican, and they also think illegal immigrants should be deported.
The Call for Civility
- He indirectly insults your racial, gender, sexual identity, spiritual beliefs, or simply your intelligence. When you call him out on his bigotry, he is (huff huff) insulted. Then he plays the “call for civility.”
- Example: I haven’t called you any names, but you called me a bigot. If you want to persuade people, you need to treat people with civility.
The Logical Fallacist
- His go-to is the ad hominem. When you point out that he may not understand a racial problem because he’s white, he screams, “ad hominem!” and runs around with his underwear on his head. Another favorite is the straw man, where he claims you’ve ignored his real argument and are attacking an incorrect version of his argument.
- Example: You’ve misunderstood my main point. I was talking about the prison industrial complex, not racism. Straw man!
The Claim of Ignorance/Innocence
- He claims that he’s confused about your opinion on a personal matter and wants to discuss it. Don’t be fooled. He knows exactly what he wants to say and is trying to lead you down a path where he can claim you’ve made a logical fallacy. Then he will claim innocence again—that he was simply trying to have a discussion. He will call for civility. You can’t win.
- Example: I’m confused. It’s just not natural to be with someone of the same sex.
The Rational Male
- He is calm, collected, and detached. He understands reason and logic. If you make it personal or emotional, that’s it. Conversation over.
- Example: Simply put, I fail to see the logic of religion. All religions are the opiate of the masses. But there is one religion that kills people if you disagree with them. And that’s Islam. You don’t see Buddhist bombers, do you? Well, if you’re going to become emotional, then we can’t have this conversation.
The Neutral Judge
- He can view the situation from a neutral point of view, implying you cannot. Sure, he understands your POV. Because he’s neutral and wiser than you, he also understands the other side. Because of this ability to discern such (literally) black and white issues with no partiality, he is a better judge than you are.
- Example: I followed the entire George Zimmerman case and listened to all the evidence presented. Though I find it all tragic, I have to agree with the jurors. You might have anecdotal evidence about racism in the law, but the law is the law.
I swear 99% of white men fall into all of these categories
and i love watching the Rational Logical atheist white men go into shrieking tailspins if you suggest that mayyybe they’re not quite as objective as they insist they are - “I DON’T have white privilege Oprah’s richer than me I DON”T I DON”T I DON”T STOP BEING HYSTERICALLLLL!!!!”
I accidentally began a relationship with Mr Oppression Authority (¼ Filipino! grew up poor on an army base! he knew about discrimination!) that turned into horrific abuse/my being a frog slowly boiled alive for three years, and I still think this is the funniest as well as most accurate post of 2016. I mean, “…and runs around with his underwear on his head”? My skin just cleared up.
Saving this and printing it out.
Literally so many people in my life like this
So in lore, vampires have this trait that I’ve almost never seen used, and that’s the fact that vampires are OBSESSED with counting things. Like, the Count on Sesame Street was almost certainly created specifically as a vampire because of this piece of lore.
Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstep–poppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.
If they didn’t immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, they’d be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadn’t counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldn’t be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether it’s possible to make them lose count and start over.
Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.
Vampire accountants who are an honest company’s best asset and a corrupt company’s bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.
Vampire cashiers that don’t need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.
Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.
MATH NERD VAMPIRES
WHY DOES MY CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN PUERTO RICAN FATHER HAVE A FOOT LONG DOUBLE SIDED DILDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ARE YOU THERE GOD!!!!????? ITS ME SCOTT!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK
i want this printed and framed
Civil war and Shippuden are the same. The entire plot revolves around the main character fighting to bring back his best friend who he is entirely not gay for and has gone due to severe trauma that has rendered him somewhere on a gray scale in terms of morality and antagonism. While the rest of the cast tries fruitlessly to convince the main character that mr best friend needs to be taken out, he insists without possibility of sway that he must and will save him. Main character does save best friend, but best friend loses an arm that he wont repair or at least isn’t that torn up about due to a guilt complex regarding his life of Sin. By the end, both are in a state of relative resolve and out of nowhere best friend decides to clock out again (also due to Sin guilt complex) and is gone for an indeterminate amount of time, his absence ironically the initial reason for the plot’s unfolding. All the while the main character is content with this resolution for some unknown reason.
concept: the communist manifesto but in the form of a call-out post
hey everyone, marx here, and this is a callout post for @capitalism. i know a lot of you are friends with capitalism but this post had to be made. there’s a spectre of us on here that don’t agree with what capitalism has been doing, and it’s time we come forward. we could not take being exploited like this any longer, so we decided to start a revolution. europe doesnt want us to post this so we’re probably gonna get some rude anons but it’s worth it.
if you need proof, you can see the receipts on how society has progressed through class struggle. you can visit this blog to read the screenshots.
for my friends’ safety i’ve hidden their names, so i’ll just refer to them as “the proletariat.”
we’ve tried to call out capitalism before but the ruling class has only reformed, with private property merely changing hands, not being destroyed. please reblog this to signal boost and to destroy capitalism completely so that private property will be permanently abolished and classes will disappear forever, thank you