[-] BNE 5 points 3 months ago

So you're literally just window shopping for somewhere you don't have to treat people with respect and decency. No wonder you're being identified as a chud.

No tolerance for the intolerant.

[-] BNE 5 points 3 months ago

Well that checks out.

[-] BNE 5 points 6 months ago

Which is why Jews across the world have said Israel is genuinely the greatest source of danger to them in terms of antisemitism - because it has linked its atrocities to their identity, regardless of their personal support.

[-] BNE 5 points 6 months ago

Only if you're ethically bankrupt, or a liberal.

[-] BNE 4 points 1 year ago

When you think the Brisbane Times couldn't be more of a rag - not that I would expect political literacy from an outfit that struggles even with journalism but bloody hell.

Fraser Annings office was literally in our CBD - like come off it.

[-] BNE 5 points 1 year ago
[-] BNE 5 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile, people die.

[-] BNE 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But theres a point here - what does it really matter if she does? People aren't static, we all have constant varying degrees of change in our lives and our perceptions of the world around us - I think it's worthwhile and even noble to try and find words to communicate those changes.

She said so herself, right? Like, we identify with the labels that'll help people outside ourselves understand best where we're at - sometimes we change, sometimes we find a more immediately accurate label that articulates something the last one we identified with couldn't quite reach.

Sure it's reflective work for the perceived and asks a bit more headspace to process things in that frame for the perceiver - but we're people. When we commit to being honest (for lack of a better word), we're never going to live as simple narratives for others.

[-] BNE 4 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure common sense is really a great metric for these kinds of things anymore, tbh - Poes Law and all.

[-] BNE 5 points 2 years ago

Feels more like a Chekhovs gun than a red herring at the moment but I hear what you're saying.

[-] BNE 4 points 2 years ago

Free Palestine. Apartheid systems have no place in a modern world.

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