Tag: bigotry
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Are Anti-Vaxx Cops From The Same Hiring Pool As The Cops Who Murdered George Floyd?
Across America, police departments are facing the same problem: a quarter to a third of their employees refuse to get vaccinated (against this particular coronavirus exclusively; none of those employees seems to have balked at any vaccination before this one) and are willing to walk off their jobs if that means staying unvaccinated. Let’s please,…
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How To Tell If You’re A Racist
Racism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But with a difference. Beauty is subjective. Racism isn’t. I may walk around being the only person who thinks I’m “beautiful”. So long as no one’s bullying me though — and so long as I’m not being destructively delusional because I think I’m an Adonis…
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Unfortunately, There’s Really No Such Thing As “Fair”
“Fair” is kind of like the Buddhist notion of “Bodhisattva”. A Bodhisattva is someone on the road to enlightenment. But they’re not there yet. If they think they’re there? They’re definitely not “there”. Enlightenment is as hard a goal to achieve as “fair” is. It’s more surreal than real, more abstract than plastic. And it’s…
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It Sucks Being Hated. It Sucks More When The Reason You’re Hated Is Entirely Based On Fiction
It sucks when the thing at the end of “I hate you because…” is bullshit. I’m a yid. A kike. A sheeny. I grew up part of a hated community. As a kid, you ask the obvious question — “But WHY do they hate me (never mind us)?” The answer you get back isn’t satisfying…
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If Bullshit Had A ‘Hall Of Fame’…
Bullshit comes with being Human. We don’t know yet if Bullshit comes with being sentient; do other animals capable of conscious thought LIE to each other when necessary? Why would we assume they didn’t? I’m just saying — Lying and Bullshit seem so natural to us that it could be an organic outgrown of having…