Why does it seem like every single thing people enjoy has to be “called out” now as harmful in some way? Costumes are racist, fireworks upset the animals and trigger PTSD, Halloween decorations kill the wildlife. No one ever seems to have fun alternatives to suggest (heaven forfend the delicate crowd stoop to earplugs on July 4th!), it’s just “everything you like is actually bad because XYZ.”

I swear someone gets a kick out of it.

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 Fireworks should go to hell though. It's like being hit on the head with an hammer 

 Despite being 13 percent of the population, Africans commit over 56 percent of the violent crime in the United States. If you control for able bodied, military age (between 15 and 45) blacks, it's closer to 6 percent of the population causing over 56 percent of the violent crime. :nv: