H O R S E in some 10 hours

Sometimes you see a headline like this and you just have to stop for a moment and reflect on how mindboggling it is that genocidality could become so popular in a society. The fact is of course that this is the character of every genocide in history: genocides only happen if most people in a society passively or actively accept them. But when oneself is so far removed from that cultural context that enables this most horrible of crimes to happen, it becomes difficult to even fathom how a society could end up in a situation where one could meet ten people in the dominant group and find that nine of them want the marginalized group — largely children no less! — reduced to bags of nondescript red mush. Even the tenth person is probably still incredibly racist and a tacit supporter of genocide, just not an active supporter of it.

It feels cliché to mention how Zionist settlers are themselves to a pretty large extent descended from the survivors of pogroms and one of the worst genocides in human history, because the apparent irony of that is just not what makes the genocidality of so-called “Jewish” “Israelis” so horrifying, revolting, and tragic. People are not their great-grandparents, and Zionists, although they use Jewish aesthetics, are still a product of the cultural climate of Anglo settlerism and German volkism more than they are a product of anything Jewish. The Zionist settlers are, in a word, “not Jews”.

No, this is a human matter, not an ethnoreligious one. It’s a matter of me expecting to be able to look a member of my own species in the eyes and see a soul capable of empathy; all human beings are after all cousins if you go back far enough, and I would gladly welcome anyone as my own family. So even if people’s actions hurt others, I like to believe that people are largely just misguided and could be set on a better path, that people simply mean well but don’t always know how to do well.

But Zionists, in the way they talk, in the way they act, in the lack of any brightness in their eyes, there is just… no humanity left. Whatever humanity the Zionist settlers had was “left at the door” like shoes and coats when they decided to become settlers, and they’ll put their shoes and coats back on when the wretched, moribund system they benefit from finally collapses on them, which will be soon, God willing. And perhaps then, and only then, to paraphrase my own favorite ex-Zionist, ĉiu vidos en sia proksimulo nur homon kaj fraton.everyone will see in their neighbor only a man and a brother.

Yeah, I was having a hard time coming up with a name for the animation studio, so I just decided to make it an Extremely Subtle Shirobako Reference — it would after all be a pretty vintage reference to make by 2060 (although the studio was founded earlier than that), and we live in a world where, say, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company was “defictionalized” way sooner after the source material than that.

I’ve used empty links in my own previous posts here, but I haven’t seen others do the same. I’ve got a whole .txt file on my computer with draft “wiki from the future” posts, including one about the “Fina Venko”, i.e. how Esperanto ended up displacing English as a lingua franca pretty quickly and suddenly starting in the 2060s.

Edit: Incidentally, slubbing is already a word, “to draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.” — but I figured that word was already obscure, specific and technical enough that it wouldn’t be a problem.

That seems like the best idea, yes.

just calling her Sarah and saying “she used to go by Sam” if there’s confusion?

Please, please avoid doing that if you can — there are many, many other ways to clarify who you’re talking about than using an old name. Try mentioning, say, a shared memory, or a distinctive trait about the person, and then say that she transitioned.

The important thing to keep in mind with this stuff is that anybody who knows somebody’s deadname can use that deadname to disrespect or harass that person. So even if you may think you’re using the deadname “innocuously” — whether that be because of an apparent “slip-up” or just because you figured it was OK to use the deadname “in that context” — every time you use the deadname, you’re making that deadname more prominent in other people’s memory, keeping it from getting forgotten, priming other people to “slip up” in turn, or even inadvertently teaching it to new people. And the more people who know someone’s deadname, as said, the more people have the ability to use that knowledge for evil.

In other words, even if you aren’t shooting the gun, you’re still selling the bullets, right?

The best practice is to just apply the current name and pronouns “retroactively” as it were. Some individual trans people may refer to their pre-transition selves differently from their post-transition selves, but just going off myself, I can only imagine that most trans people would feel super uncomfortable if not offended or humiliated or disrespected etc, with other people talking about their pre-transition that way without permission — likewise uncomfortable if not offended etc with other people asking for their permission to talk about their pre-transition that way.

So basically, if Sarah goes out of her way to say you can call her ‘Sam’ or call her ‘him’, then you can, but if she doesn’t, don’t assume it’s OK and don’t bring it up. That’s the etiquette I’d feel comfortable with, at least.

It’s also better to say transgender than transgendered.

Ten minutes to Maestro!

One hour to showtime!

Takk for svaret.

The bell hooks? Yeah they tend to do that

About 11 hours and 45 minutes to Maestro — be aware that we’re starting half an hour earlier than usual.

Oh.

To tag people you can type @ followed by the person’s username. A menu should appear with a list of usernames. Click on the one you want to tag.

THEN YOU *CAN* CALL IT WATERPLAY!!!

YOU CAN CALL IT PISS PLAY OR YOU CAN CALL IT WATERSPORTS BUT YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN-NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CALL IT WATERPLAY!!!

♫ Butt stuff, big knife; you were runnin’ fast all your life ♫

Veldig, veldig interessant! Jeg antar du mener fyren fra denne artikkelen fra 2018? Direktøren i Ølen Betong, som bodde i Murmansk og bygde opp en søsterbedrift der på 2000-tallet, men ble da pågrepet av FSB i 2016 og deretter utvist fra Russland i ti år fordi de trodde han var en spion? Nå er det vel nesten ti år siden 2016, som betyr at han får vel straks komme tilbake til Murmansk… Vil vi kanskje da si at FOR er partiet til den delen av det norske borgerskapet som ville tjent (mer umiddelbart) fra samarbeid mellom Norge og Russland — eller er det kanskje for tidlig til å si?

Virker litt frustrerende, men de må vel bygge opp litt “hype”…

Som forventet.

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