I should not be involved with people who turn a blind eye to fascism.
Full stop.
I’m sorry to say that you already know what you have to do. There’s no easy way to do it other than to just do it. If it makes the process easier, you don’t have to pose it as “it’s me or them” because you already know what his answer will be. If he was going to change, he’s had plenty of opportunities already.
Don’t wait for him anymore. Live YOUR life.
That’s an interesting wikipedia article - that’s the first time I’ve seen [failed verification] on a citation, let alone two. You learn something new every day.
Seriously. Delay it as long as you can before demanding that they fire you.
I think this is too specific, as you mentioned. Why not broaden it to “a piece of literature they were not required to read”? You could talk about anything from wikipedia articles, to current news headlines or sci-fi books this way, and it shows where their curiosity lies.
How’s your relationship with your daughter now?
How did she feel about you choosing to work instead of spending that time with her?
Remember, the Senate is DEI for white suburbia.
“We have less than a 50% prosecution rate for murder.”
You sure that’s the argument you want to broadcast?
First, I have two.
Second, why should anyone listen to you when you admit that any cat can outsmart you? Lol
The difference is being labeled “abnormal” by a person you know vs. by society. As a society, we used to beat children who used their left hand to write until they started acting “normal”.
The thought itself that left-handedness and right-handedness are different is not harmful. However, when you start labeling one as ‘normal’ and the other as a ‘generic abnormality’, you start shifting people’s perspectives and suddenly we get a situation where we call left-handed people “Sinister”. (The word literally means left-handed. We added the evil connotations afterwards because of the prejudice against left-handed people. We also did the same in reverse for “dexterity”.)
You might not see the harm immediately in the small scale, but it’s absolutely intended to be a step towards dehumanizing queer people. As others have said as well, homosexuality is incredibly common in nature. Most giraffe sex is gay sex. It’s just not taught in school because… say it with me… “It’s abnormal.”
It’s really not though. It’s just different, and different doesn’t mean bad.
Your argument has been used countless times in history for a number of “abnormalities” that turn out to just be differences without distinction.
“Listen, I’m a supporter of red-heads, but don’t we basically understand that it’s a genetic abnormality? Maybe ‘illness’ is a bit harsh, but they’re just not common enough in society to be considered normal.”
It must be next-to-impossible for parents to say, “I don’t know.”
They never knew, just kicked the ball down the field until it wasn’t their responsibility anymore.
It’s more so that the uploader gets the most watch time and engagement and therefore the biggest paycheck per video.
BTW, down voting is seen as engagement and prioritized just the same as up voting. Doesn’t matter which button you’re pushing as long as it’s on the platform.
On a road trip, got food poisoning so bad that I couldn’t eat for 5 days, barely kept fluids down and was so weak that walking into an appointment, the doctor told me to go to urgent care.
They gave me an IV, did an ultrasound, and gave me some anti-nausea and anti-diarrhea meds, which barely helped. It still took 3 or 4 days before I started feeling better.
Insurance comes back with a 5K bill. They claimed that even though I had my regular prescriptions go through both before and after the trip, the trip claim itself was denied because it was “during a time when I did not have coverage”.
Took several months and phone calls of pointing out the before/after is approved without questions so there’s no way to claim I wasn’t covered during this one week. Every human I spoke to agreed with me, but it still took months.
I’ve always understood it as “This is apparent to people who are familiar with the issue, but since I am not, I have to take their word for it. If I looked into the issue, I’m reasonably certain I would come to the same conclusion.”
Apparently that’s not how other people parse it, though.
Lol, no.
My husband and I agree that it’s just a marketing ploy and don’t typically exchange high-cost gifts. We’ll make food and enjoy the lazy day with a new videogame or puzzle, but rarely anything more than that.
When I was 6 or 7, I realized the neighbors (who were absolutely AWFUL) received more presents than my family did and the only difference was that their family made more money.
I started thinking about all the kids in my class, and the ones that got the most presents weren’t the nicest kids, they were the ones with the richest parents. Then it clicked.
Doesn’t look like anything to me.
Oh hey look, precedent.
There’s a fact-checked debate from Vox where both parties set 3 facts that they both agree to. Then they provide footnotes and more information that’s not covered by just the facts. I found this format very enlightening while also explaining both points of view without getting heated.
I only found it on YouTube, but it might be available elsewhere.
Oh, an email from outside the department demanding confidential reports?
Marks as spam