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Judging by the amount of cartoons I watch, I’m inclined to agree on that last part.
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It’s a well-rounded person who can enjoy hearing someone else’s opinions without necessarily agreeing with all of them.
Of course, I wouldn’t hold the opinions I do if I didn’t think they were all as correct as my present knowledge would allow. But I’m also smart enough to know that nobody’s got everything figured out, and some things you just don’t know that you don’t know.
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anonymous asked: To the anon who asked for proof that there’s not racism against white people, there is. Look up “reverse racism” as that’s what it’s commonly called
Ha, word, look up “reverse racism” to see that the only people complaining about that made-up shit are a bunch of racists who are angry the they can’t be quite as openly racist as they used to be.
For a lark, I looked up “reverse racism” on Wikipedia. The text was just embarrassing:
“A recent study conducted at Tufts and Harvard sought to quantify perceptions of reverse racism by surveying Americans who identified as White or Black. The study’s title, “White People See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing”, indicates its findings: that Whites feel as though they now suffer disproportionately from racism. (Blacks felt that anti-Black racism had decreased over time, but did not perceive increases in anti-White bias.) These results were constant for people of different ages and levels of education.[5][6][7] This study has made the act of reverse racism against whites even more apparent, since reverse racism has increased but racial minority groups see no need to address the issue as a whole, primarily because they have the most to gain from perpetrating reverse racism.”
Holy damn, that is racist. That is the exact wrong conclusion to draw from that study.
Back away, before it’s too late…
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i think it’s a universal truth that everyone in our generation takes pluto’s losing its planetary status as a personal offense
And I still don’t get why.
Is it some sort of meta-cultural commentary about the inadequacy of our educational system, which teaches us to cherish trivial “facts” that don’t hold up to scrutiny? Because that’s a very valid complaint. Our educational priorities are often very very crooked.
However, I feel it’s even more apt a complaint than we fear. Pluto’s demotion from planet to “dwarf planet” is an example of science operating more or less as science does, reclassifying knowledge according to a more accurate and rigorous framework established by decades of research.
To take personal offense at a new scientific consensus because it contradicts a mobile you worked so hard to build in third grade is basically to admit that you have no meaningful understanding of what science is all about: constantly trying to become more accurate. Pluto was assigned “planet status” because when it was discovered it was not obvious that it had more in common with certain other types of space-rocks. Continuing to list it as a planet was making astronomical classifications awkward.
Pluto’s feelings haven’t been hurt, and now we have a better schema for understanding the properties of various astronomical bodies. We should be happy.
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The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives were ruled by strict hierarchies within the family and outside it to control resources. Europe was highly multi-ethnic, and most tribes were ruled by hereditary leaders who commanded the majority “commoners.” These groups were engaged in near constant warfare.
Pre-contact Europeans wore clothing made of natural materials such as animal skin and plant and animal-based textiles. Women wore long dresses and covered their hair, and men wore tunics and leggings. Both men and women liked to wear jewelry made from precious stones and metals as a sign of status. Before contact, Europeans had very poor diets. Most people were farmers and grew wheat and vegetables and raised cows and sheep to eat. They rarely washed themselves, and had many diseases because they often let their animals live with them.
Religion infused every part of Europeans’ lives. Europeans believed in one supreme deity, a father figure, who they believed was made of three parts, and they particularly worshiped the deity’s son. They claimed that their god had given humans domination over the earth. They built elaborate temples to him and performed ceremonies in which they ate crackers and drank wine and believed it was the body and blood of their god, who would provide them with entrance into a wondrous afterlife called heaven when they died. Many wars were fought over disagreements about the details of this religion, each group believing their interpretation was the right one that should be spread across the land.
Indigenous History: “What if people told European history like they told Native American history?” (via stfuconservatives)
Funny how the single phrase “Europe was highly multi-ethnic” is the only indication that Europeans could be considered anything other than members of a single ethnicity.
We don’t know enough about Native American history (and by we I mean typical non-Natives). This blog is a great resource for rectifying that situation.
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Little Red Corvette b/w All The Critics Love U In New York
Prince, Warner Bros. Records/USA (1982)
I don’t remember the 80s, but I imagine that living in the 80s consisted mostly of remarking upon the crazy-dirty stuff Prince was up to.
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Science Officer Bonnibel Bubblegum
Probably the first candy person to serve in Starfleet.
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I’m not an expert on logical fallacies, but I believe they call this one denying the antecedent.
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Man, Superman is a dick.
