The other day at a shop, a little boy was showing his mother a bracelet he really liked. She very quickly replied, ‘Oh, sweetie, those are for girls. Let’s go find where they have something for boys.’ I heard it a few more times from both parents. Clearly, he liked things this society considers feminine.
I felt so bad for him because liking the ‘wrong’ things meant his interests would never be encouraged—or even allowed—by parents who are vigilant in their panic.
Just let the kid have his joy.
Right-wing extremists in Congress have no incentive to end the crisis they’ve created. They love chaos. They love shutting down the government. There is for them no undesirable outcome.
I’d been at Costco right before everything hit and had actually had a four-pack of these in my hands BUT put it back thinking I didn’t need that much.
I thought about that A LOT while I was rationing wipes at the beginning—debating the use of each and every one while knowing it could’ve been different.
I’d been at Costco right before everything hit and had actually had a four-pack of these in my hands BUT put it back thinking I didn’t need that much.
I thought about that A LOT while I was rationing wipes at the beginning—debating the use of each and every one while knowing it could’ve been different.
It will never stop amazing me how just a few people—often representing disproportionately small constituencies—can have so much power in a ‘democracy’ or—even, as they love to clarify—a ‘republic.’
Everything Mitt Romney’s doing right now—everything he’s done all along—is the bare minimum to salve his conscious and shape his legacy.
Just enough words and actions to guarantee history—if it’s allowed to be written honestly—remembers him as principled if, ultimately, ineffective against a cult to which he also, incidentally, kowtowed by not doing anything close to everything he could.
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My father was stationed in Alabama when white supremacist terrorists killed four Black girls in Birmingham. My favorite neighbor in the latter 2010s was a Holocaust survivor who was only alive because she made a run for it during a Nazi death march through the forest.
Ancient history? Hell, it isn't even history when you KNOW someone who was there.
@2a70c54d Racism always baffles me on a fundamental level of being nonsensical. And that's my problem. I want things to make sense and there's never any reason racism does. So I can list all the ways it's not logical but that doesn't matter when it too conveniently serves too many narratives for people who have no interest in rationalizing their attitudes. And are often, in fact, trained to exalt the irrational as an ultimate and unquestioned authority.
TL: DR It sucks and they're horrible.
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