#calling the bill racist and disrespectful

[socialjusticeinamerica]

I go to concerts and events all the time and women use the men’s room no problem when their tiny restrooms overflow. The only time I ever noticed anyone complain was when a drunk women stumbled into a men’s room after a concert in Las Vegas. The men’s room was full of redneck assholes with southern accents, cowboy hats and boots. They immediately surrounded her and began harassing her with vile comments and graphic descriptions of how they were going to gang rape her. Security had to intervene to save her from those MAGA assholes. So much much for those country boys being good Christians. In New England nobody blinks an eye when women use the men’s room and if anyone started saying shit like that to woman they would have gotten the shit kicked out of their redneck asses.

Years ago history books would talk about regional peculiarities like Yankee Ingenuity and Southern Hospitality. I have spent a fair amount of time in the south, I have friends and family there, and in better times even owned property there. Let me tell you that Southern Hospitality is a myth. Unless you’re in a big city or a theme park or some other big tourist attraction, and you don’t have a southern drawl you’re going to be treated like Bin Laden showing up at Ground Zero. The rich modern day Confederates are the most elitist and bigoted people alive. The poor are some of the meanest, rudest, angriest, most hostile, and least Christian people you could ever meet.

Now that’s a blanket statement and obviously everyone doesn’t fit into that stereotype. There are plenty of normal people but very few of them will ever speak up for fear of the way they will be treated. This has been going on since the early days of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1700’s. It isn’t something that can be blamed on The Southern Strategy, Nixon, Reagan, Fox News, the Tea Party, or the MAGA movement.

The North industrialized and modernized everything including banking, transportation, industry, and food crop agriculture. The rich southern Planter Class, the Aristocracy, relied on King Cotton, tobacco, and slavery. None of which was profitable or sustainable. The Planter Aristocracy soon became deeply indebted to northern banks and were at risk of losing their land, property livelihoods, and social standing. When the North and West started pressuring the South to end slavery and pay their bills the Southern

Planter elite decided to secede from the Union of States. They thought it was win-win, they could keep their slaves, escape their debt, and simply trade their cash crops with Europe. Well the Europeans switched to Egypt, India, and the Caribbean for their cotton and to a lesser extent tobacco. Only a handful of wealthy elites in each states could afford slaves in any quantity beyond one. The hillbilly rednecks were propagandized into believing they were defending their way of life and states rights against Northern (and western) Aggression. The west was populated by immigrant farmers who couldn’t afford slaves and came from countries where slavery was banned, never existed, and was condemned by European religious groups.

Long story short the United States, aka the Union or the North, had the food crops, the population, the transportation, the industry, the schools, the banks/money, and virtually every other advantage. The Confederacy was built on lies and propaganda spread by the upper class. They had nothing but bitterness and resent at the North and West that they still have to this day. Treating women and marginalized people with disrespect is ingrained into their DNA and so tightly wound into their societal fabric it may never come out. Even their LGBT community is racist AF. Now their were good people in the South, called Unionists, who didn’t agree with slavery, secession, or the Planter Aristocracy and many of them moved North and some even joined the US Army to fight against the Confederacy. Ironically some of them remained in the Army softer the Civil War ended and took part in the “Indian” Wars, after which they returned to the South as military heroes with their disloyalty to the Confederacy forgiven.

A scorpion can not change its nature. And people who have been propagandized since the 1700’s by the wealthy elite can’t be expected to change their “traditions” overnight. Thanks to Republican oligarchs a disproportionate percentage of Southerners and rural people blame modern Democrats, who are now mainly in the Northeast and the West Coast as they were during the Civil War, for all their problems.

They’ll never understand that the modern Republicans and oligarchs are holding them hostage and denying them jobs, education, unions, prosperity, and healthcare. They have been conditioned to for two centuries to blame outsiders for their problems while supporting their oligarch oppressors. Denigrating women, people of color, and marginalized groups is a sadly a rite of passage for the majority in the Old Confederacy. They’re like the people of Eastern Europe who have been holding grudges for so long they don’t even remember why they they are collectively doing it. They need to be deprogrammed from that Confederate mindset first and then deprogrammed from the Republican/MAGA mindset but that’s not likely to happen anytime soon if at all. We’d have to win back the White House, the Congress, the SCOTUS, and the state legislatures first. Then we’d have to utterly smash the Republican Party and ban the oligarchs and their dark money from politics. Following that Herculean talk we’d have to invest heavily in public education across the South and rural West and return it to modern standards from the plundered mess the oligarchs and their privatized schools have created.

A second civil war may be looming and they are propping for it. Invariably they will lose for the same reasons they did the first time but it will be far more costly and have lingering effects that may never be reconciled. It won’t be a regional war like the first time but rather a bloody mess like the war in Northern Ireland with terror bombings and revenge killings. No single community will be safe. Sometimes I think we’d be better off letting Texas and Florida secede and take Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana with them. The remainder of the MAGAts would flock there and shoot themselves into third world status. The rest of the US would keep the military, the nukes, planes, ships, tanks, and all Federal property. There are blue areas in the sunbelt but as a whole I can’t see those states being reformed. Texas is a cancer since it’s been under Republican rule and Florida is pathetically imitating them. The in between states, with the exception of some blue cities are virtually third world states and as backwards as can be.

I mean no offense to the good people of the red states. My issue is with the Republican misrule over those areas and the backwards brainwashing they have subjected their citizens to. I feel deeply for the Democrats and other decent people there. But history has taught us time and again that unless a majority of the people want change it is impossible to force democracy on them. The Republican oligarchs have spent billions of dollars since the 1960’s to reshape this country and to maintain that Confederate mindset in the South. That’s not something that can be undone by electing a Democratic president and a handful of charismatic congressmen and women.

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Everyone who says " Beyonce's album wasn't even country! " needs to watch this rn and you have been preaching the gospel since she finally got what the industry of white bigots have denied her since the album released.

Beyonce is country. In fact, if you like country, you have black people to thank for it existing ( I could rant forever about this but basics is a lot of the instruments that make country music country music were either invented by enslaved black people or were most notably used by enslaved black people, which I find it funny in a sad way that white people are still taking our shit and pretending it was all them )

Also for the Bille fans, go harass all the white people who were competing and who beat Bille now or forever be labeled racist bc that's what you are. ( not you op you're doing God's work )

Also we need to start calling people racist more often bc I have never in my life seen so much of it after one night I swear ( that's a lie but I'm sure you can guess the other nights )

CLOCK IT ANON!!! country is a historically black genre that’s been co-opted by white artists. this album is a love letter to BLACK southern culture, music and way of life in the same sense that renaissance was a love letter to the BLACK queer and trans community, to house music and ballroom culture, to her uncle johnny who inspired her as a child. in the same exact sense that lemonade was her personal experience as being a BLACK woman, of her husband’s infidelity, her journey from betrayal to heartbreak to forgiveness, of all the emotional baggage black women are expected to hold (just for people to say she wasn’t being vulnerable at all or shaming her for staying with jay). beyonce should have won album of the year from self titled all the way to cowboy carter, and it’s not even close. time and time again white people disrespect black artistry and people but be the first ones using AAVE to call you a fucking slur lmao.

as for billie, i already said the album was cute, but it did NOT deserve AOTY. the fact that people think they can disrespect beyonce and CC despite admitting to not even listening to it tells me everything I need to know. cc was filled with rich cultural references, black history, discussions of the black experience and her experience with being disrespected and excluded by the cmas. the first SONG literally has giselle saying “they used to say I spoke too country and then the rejection came and said I wasn’t country enough. said I wouldn’t saddle up. if this ain’t country, tell me what is?”!!!! ???? ameriican requiem alone smashed all of her competition out of the water. competition that have been repackaging the same sounds, same concepts and production from before. that’s also why they’re trying to gag the hive by bringing up how many writers cc has as if that very organic collaboration isn’t why her albums are always so fresh and innovative and good.

billie dressing like a flava flav cosplayer while her fans calling me slurs over a fuckass grammy. she can feel sad and shit, but I remember when beyonce teared up at the 2017 grammy’s after adele’s acceptance speech and they called her bitter, jealous and narcissistic. they still do! billie liking tiktoks of her crying (with racist ass comments in those videos) pissed me off too. grow tf up. nine grammies, two oscars before 23- you will be just fine baby girl. and this is all imma say about that girl. I won’t get nasty about her, but this white outrage over their white darlings not getting their way is just as I expected.

and you’re so right. “DEI awards”, “this is what it feels like to lose to a black woman” “beyonce doesn’t have a fraction of billie’s talent” id rather them call me and her a slur. say it with your chest lol.

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I’m assuming that this is about the new Bill Skarsgard abomination that’s supposed to be coming out soon and truly I’m so bothered by it. It’s disrespectful to James O’Barr and his loss and the original comic to go and blame Shelly for their deaths and it’s disrespectful to Brandon Lee’s memory and the way most of the original cast and crew didn’t want to continue without him but did after his family pressed for them to because they said it’s what he would have wanted.

And then there are still Crow comics being made currently. They have created a franchise of different stories of loss and revenge and if they had decided to call these two characters anything but Eric and Shelly I probably wouldn’t be so upset about it but respect is apparently too much to ask from Hollywood.

And that’s not even taking into consideration that the director did the racist abomination of Ghost in the Shell and has gone on to say that they took inspiration from Post Malone. An iconic goth character and their visual inspiration was Post Malone.

As far as I can see there is not a single redeeming quality about this movie which sucks so hard because I love Bill Skarsgard’s work and I want to be excited about a new movie from him and a new Crow movie but fucking hell, not like this.

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Wait bestie I want to know your thots on the matty healy being problematic thing he’s said a lot of weird/offensive stuff for sure but apparently some of that stuff is supposed to be satirical/ he’s an edge lord or whatever like the n*zi salute thing he did and it’s not a good thing to do no matter the context but I feel like it’s probably more harmful to call him a n*zi when he isn’t actually one it’s probably better to call that action antisemitic than a whole n*zi no?

wait gjargigjag you just basically summarized my thoughts but imma ramble more under the cut

i dont think matty is actually, truly, deep in his core racist or a n*zi (i'm also p sure he's given enough interviews explaining himself and his political ideologies bc he's annoying and never shuts the fuck up) BUT he also does say a bunch of shit on the side that doesn't help his case.

i think intent is a big issue in society in general bc it's like 'are you saying this shit to be funny? or are you saying this shit to be mean?' and people don't ask that question anymore. i remember when ariana dated pete and he made that joke about manchester and people were like 'he's disrespecting the dead!!' and, like, i can defs see where people are coming from for sure, and i can also see why he was like ???? in response to the backlash because his attention clearly wasnt to offend.

i will not lie and will fully admit that i am SENSITIVE lmao and there are some jokes in standup sets that i will straight up 😐 during bc i cannot separate the words from intent sometimes but im not going to say bill burr is a rape apologist or whatever because i sit and watch my silly lil 'offensive' robot chicken episodes without batting an eye. the problem with humor is that there will always be a faction that makes certain people uncomfortable. and that's okay!!!! not all of us (me included) need to watch cumtown or red scare because we will not find it funny!!! there's one drag queen who's yt videos my boyfriend cant watch bc he thinks she comes across mean even though i think the jokes hit!!!!

and to your second point i agreeeee like im black and grew up in a p white area so obviously people have said some SHIT to me, but that means you have to learn how to distinguish between someone being intentionally racist or someone being ignorant. i think matty says shit he thinks is funny because he's trying to be funny but the jokes themselves don't hit and just come across as....bizarre? rude??? multiple -ists???? but then he tries to explain himself and people (strangers to him) are either like 'fuck u this isnt sincere' or are just like 'but youre still wrong and horrible' and he just gets frustrated and deletes his socials in a lil baby fit gjlragjaglgj. and not to be a white apologist lmao BUT i kinda do understand why people turn to that 'anti-woke ideology' bc if every time i said something with poor phrasing and someone i didn't know called me a racist n*zi i'd probs go ape shit too.

there are real, actual n*zis like in real life who are actually trying to hurt people and people are pulling out all of their big gun ultra-bad labels for some scrawny boy band dude???? like what are we supposed to call the actual n*zis???????? like i l i t e r a l l y have seen a neo-n*zi rally down the street from my HOUSE and thats fucking TERRIFYING and they're just snatching up more people because of all of the culture wars bullshit

[but like to note im not saying that people need to be forgiving and understanding every time someone says something that pisses them off. some people need to be yelled at!!! they need to know they are wrong!!!! people should just be aware of the impact their words have. matty's words have made A LOT of people straight up hate him, but at the same time, some people have probably seen matty get called a n*zi and are now like 👀 bc the bar to being considered h*tler seems kinda low.]

anyway tl;dr racism is a spectrum, words have meaning, and we don't know these people. but if matty really is a racist and im wrong then i hope he chokes!!!

ALSO i am an adult and am not in the business of defending other adults so like im not gonna argue with someone if they think matty is racist. i am not doing dirty hit pr for FREE

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rdr1 live reactions 1/?

Exodus in America 

.The graphic really arnt that bad. is it worse than the second game? Yes. But that’s an unfair comparison. 

.I hope those racist old ladies on the train have a seizure 

.Idk if my controller is shit or if the game controls themselves are rough. Or both

.The conversation between Marston and Jake on the way to fort Mercer interest me

1) When Marston talks about an ‘old friend whom he hasn’t be friends with a long time’ I’m assuming he’s referring specifically about Javier. I mean obviously it could also be bill but they really weren’t as close in rdr2 also if I remember right (from online) fort Mercer is held mostly by Hispanic folk

2) because Jake mentions the working women in armadillo and Marston replies “I’m a married man” and Jake said something along the lines of “ain’t we all” this intrigues me because it already shows how much development he’s undertaken. I mean in rdr2 during the epilogue we see that John’s grown up and is trying to be a better father and husband but to have one of his first lines in the game be solidifying that is nice. Idk I guess I just like to see John be a fucking adult

.oh shit ok no it’s bill, I thought he built his own fort but no, he took over Mercer. Ok well I guess I read to far into that conversation. AnYwAy

.dang Dutch name drop already??? this is moving so much faster than I thought it would, like I thought the race or whatever with Bonnie McFarland would happen before the first confrontation with bill

This is armadillo, USA 

.i love hearing all of the old slang I’ve spent far to much time learning, such as Ms McFarland uses “wake snakes” which was a euphemism for being rowdy or loud

(Free roam)

.apologies to that poor Hispanic feller at McFarland ranch that a pointed a rifle at. You said ‘hola’ and I hit LT to try an interact with you, say hi an all, but the game controls are different . You didn’t deserve a barrel in you’re face compadre, lo lamento 

Women an cattle

.ms McFarland is such a savage /pc

.oooh pre-gang john lore? I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention his father before 

.”the leader of the gang taught me how to read” -John Marston 

(Free roam)

.I FOUND THE STRANGE MAN?!?!?! He’s just chilling by the cliff, he knows Marston’s name. WHY WONT IT LET ME INTERACT WITH HIMMMMM????? UGH he just keeps repeating “i know who you are Marston” and “I’ve been waiting for you” like that’s fucking nice now explain yourself! Interact with me! Let me start this mission pleaseee

.alright so I completed a mission or two, went back, and now the strange man’s quest is working. YIPPE!

.Did they ever mention the name of the girl on the ferry job in rdr2? The strange man called her hidie but I don’t think I’ve heard it before, which I suppose makes sense because Arthur wasn’t on that boat 

.“You’ve forgotten far more important people than me” -the strange man 

The burning: 

.i think this is the first time I’ve heard a character talk about John’s past as an outlaw in a negative way. Everyone up to this point has just kinda shrugged it off when he mentions it, but Bonnie starts chewing John out for it. She calls him out for the unknown amount of people he’s killed and then basically raves about how there’s no such thing as an honorable outlaw. Which I’m not arguing with her, though I don’t necessarily agree with her. It was just sort of neat. Up to this point even Bonnie herself was very lax when John brought up his past

. I loved climbing into the burning barn and saving the horses 

Exhuming and other fine hobbies:

.That’s one starved looking horse- poor thing, clearly someone hasn’t been giving it apples. I genuinely wish there were more horse functions in this game. like I wanna feed that poor thing, maybe give it some medicine 

.respectfully, which is of course a preemptive for something disrespectful, Seth looks nasty af. He looks worse than the damn horse. Please get that man a burger and some chapstick. A bath too I bet he smells worse than cow shit on a hot summer day   

.op- yep ok he literally just said “I haven’t washed in six months” 

.”my partner! My boy! my MAN” sounding’ kinda fruity there Seth…

.john stands like a cunt

.”my Moses” yah alright you’re a fruit Mr Seth 

.john criticizes Seth for stealing from graves, asking “how can you sink so low?” But I can’t help but think of the time Arthur partook in such a robbery (technically Arthur was collecting a debt from someone who was exhuming but that’s besides the point really)

.seth is a crazy bastard but there’s something deeply poetic about how he speaks of the dead

.oOoH goody the wanted/bounty system (/gen)

Hanging of Bonnie McFarland 

.my lass! Give her back! UNTOUCHED OR SO HELL ME GOD

.the conversation between john and the marshal on the way to tumbleweed was actually quite enlightening 

.now obviously i, as a person whose already played rdr2, know who jack is but in the context of this game alone John has barely spoken of his family. Yes he’s mentioned them many times but he doesn’t ACTUALLY talk about them a lot but in this mission he explains he’s stance of law enforcement and laws as a whole using his parenting style as an example. He says that anyone can make a rule but that’s not the same as understanding why one must follow it, he describes disciplining jack and explains why he shouldn’t do something instead of just slapping him on the wrist. Which side bar- is a rather progressive view for him to have, even the Marshall states that if Jack misbehaves then John should slap him and if he does it again John should slap him harder. 

.if this mother fucked doesn’t stop sexualizing Bonnie I’ll drop kick his ass past Saturn 

.MY GIRL! THEYRE HANGING MY GIRL! I realize that her hanging is literally in the title of the mission but like seeing it is horrific 

.my poor girl what have they done to you (I’m referring specifically to her closes being in taters and the lacerations all over her)

Liars cheats and other proud Americans

.”you have the exterior of a violent man with the soul of an angle” -Nigel west dickens 

.Nigel forcing John to carry 3 crates while he carries only one is a lot funnier than it should be 

.”a Robin Hood in spurs? How romantic. You really expect me to believe such popycock?” -Nigel . Ok but this is another fascinating conversation. Here we see John not only self justifying but him talking about how the gang supposedly was during their hay day, and Nigel calls him out and is basically saying a thief is a thief no matter the method 

-.”motivation dear boy!” -Nigel

“I’m definitely feeling motivated to get the hell out of here!” -john

Lmaooo 

.FUCK THIS RACE

.AND FUCK THAT STUPID BITCH ASS WHORE SON HORSE THEY HAVE ME DRIVIN

.alright! It took like 8 tries, a killed pedestrian, a break, and a bowl of soup but I fucking did it. I won by a landslide 

American appetite

.ok uh- fucking crazy end to this side quest 

.i had assumed it was a gang or something hiding out in the hills killin’ folk but apparently is was a cannibal????

.and you can literally just leave a guy for the cannibal to eat??? 

Free roam:

.a pack of wolves just ate my fucking horse-

.i can apparently skin horses 

.i feel so dirty selling my own horses meat and hide

.um wtf!? I just whistled and I have a horse again???? It’s different from the one that just died (naturally) but like when the fuck did I get a second horse??? I’ve never seen this fellow in my life before. Does the game just give you a new horse? 

A gentle drive with friends

.”I don’t like women, partner. I don’t” - Seth

Sir you are not helping the queer allegations

end of week thoughts:

all In all I’ve had a lot of fun. I was really worried that all of the people claiming rdr1 still held up today were just saying that due to nostalgia but so far I agree with them. It’s a fun game that has a good story and interesting characters.

I was also really worried about playing as John. When I played as him in the rdr2 epilogue it felt wrong. Just in every sense of the word. But to my pleasant surprise it feels wonderful playing him in rdr1. Like- it’s so hard to describe but I felt natural in a way.

And I’ve been continuously shocked at how well this game works as a sequel. I mean really it’s crazy how flawless the dialogue flows after finishing rdr2. I imagine if I were playing this first then I’d be lost because they give cryptic dialogue that only really makes sense with the context rdr2 gives. It almost makes me wonder; did they already have rdr2 planed or did they just do that damn good of a job making a prequel? Was the vague dialogue intentional so they didn’t *have* to make an intricately planed game or was is intentional in the sense that they already knew when and how they were going to make it vivid? Food for thought.

So far my only real complaint is the horse mechanics. The horse are just kinda *there*. I heard someone equate them to the cars in gta and I think they’re right. Outside of riding and taming you don’t interact with your horse at all. And they’re so FAST like holy shit! There’s basically 3 speeds: walking, running, flying off a fucking cliff at 90 miles per hour. It’s to the point that when I jumped on rdo and rode my literal race horse I felt like we were crawling everywhere we went.

[bllsbailey]

Vanessa Guillén’s Sister Condemns The Atlantic for Claiming Trump Disparaged Soldier: ‘He Showed Nothing but Respect’

Candles and flowers decorate a makeshift memorial for US Army Specialist Vanessa Guillen at Power House Gym on August 14, 2020, in Houston, Texas.

The sister and family attorney of Vanessa Guill��n, a U.S. soldier who was murdered in 2020, slammed a report by The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief who claimed that Donald Trump refused to pay for Guillén’s funeral after previously agreeing to. He also claimed that the former president made racists remarks towards her ethnicity.

The article, which was written by Jeffrey Goldberg, claimed that Trump was extremely upset after receiving a $60,000 funeral bill during a 2020 meeting in the Oval Office. Goldberg claims Trump stated “It doesn’t cost $60,000 bucks to bury a f–king Mexican.”

Goldberg also claimed that Trump demanded his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows, not to pay the bill, stating “Don’t pay it!”

Vanessa Guillén was 20-years-old at the time of her death. She was murdered in 2020 by Aaron Robinson, a soldier who was stationed at the same base in Texas.

Robinson, along with his then-girlfriend, Cecily Aguilar, dismembered Guillén’s body after the murder and hid it in the woods. Robinson ended up committing suicide after a confrontation with police. Aguilar pleaded guilty for aiding Robinson’s crimes, which resulted in a 30 year prison sentence.

The release of the article sparked backlash from Vanessa’s sister, Mayra Guillén, as well as the family attorney, stating that Trump has done “nothing but show[n] respect to my family.”

“Wow. I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics-hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members, “ Mayra stated on X. “President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today.”

Wow. I don’t appreciate how you are exploiting my sister’s death for politics- hurtful & disrespectful to the important changes she made for service members. President Donald Trump did nothing but show respect to my family & Vanessa. In fact, I voted for President Trump today. https://t.co/o8cDrKOKBV— Mayra Guillen (@mguilen_) October 22, 2024

Natalie Khawam, the Guillén family attorney, also released a statement accusing Goldberg of exploiting the tragic death of Guillén for political gain ahead of the election.

“After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffery Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story,” she wrote on X.

After having dealt with hundreds of reporters in my legal career, this is unfortunately the first time I have to go on record and call out Jeffrey Goldberg@the Atlantic: not only did he misrepresent our conversation but he outright LIED in HIS sensational story. More… https://t.co/uJtfsNTo37— Attorney Natalie Khawam (@WhistleblowerLF) October 22, 2024

“More importantly, he used and exploited my clients, and Vannesa Guillenss murder… for cheap political gain. I would like to also point out that the timing of this “story” is quite suspicious, as this supposed conversation that Trump had would have occurred over 4 years ago! Why a story about it now?!” she continued, questioning Goldberg’s intentions.

“As everyone knows, not only did Trump support our military, he also invited my clients to the Oval Office and supported the I Am Vanessa Guillen bill too,” she added.

Meadows also spoke out against Goldberg’s accusations, stating that “Any suggestion that President Trump disparaged Ms. Guillen or refused to pay for her funeral expenses is absolutely false,” he wrote in an X post. “He was nothing but kind, gracious, and wanted to make sure that the military and the U.S. government did right by Vanessa Guillén and her family.”

Additionally, the Trump campaign responded to the claims, stating that Goldberg’s report was “absolutely false.”

“President Donald Trump has spent his life caring for America’s military heroes…,” stated Alex Pfeiffer, a Trump campaign advisor. “There has been no greater advocate for our brave military men and women than Donald J. Trump.”

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[afr0-thunder]

[Poor Chronicles Pt. 35]

Topics: Weed/SEXI (update)/LOML (update)/Trolling/SIM Card Troubleshooting/Photography/Work (Hours)/Work (Social)/Girls/I Remembered…?/Reply, Read or Delivered (RRD)

I finally went to the dealer at the other location. Needless to say, will not be doing that…again. He wasn’t even the guy I looked for, just one of them. Still was the first though. I found my dealer … $100 later. I told him, he had missed out on $100 worth of my money. RIDICULOUS! While I was leaving yesterday, after I dropped my weed. Called me “Whiteboy!”. I almost said, “So you gone bitch me in front of yo friends? IIGHT!”. I considered getting a new dealer. I considered going the fuck off. I needed a solution for being called caucasian. My pet peeve. The disrespect was sky high. Is it this hard to identify light skinned African Americans? This dude’s from my part of the hood too. So confused. Weed, still, unfortunately, will be playing a larger role in my expenses going forward (I presume).

No updates from SEXI, I presume she’s dead.

The LOML left me on delivered. About my 4th DM in 2 weeks.

Still trolling the bad bitches of TikTok (with a fat ass). The jokes are now relative to having a fat ass. Still harassing the girl with 1000s of followers about talking to other dudes.

My SIM card was actually the issue. I had to spend $11 on that shit. It was not the phone at all. Compatibility issue and whatever else was fucked up. I also paid my bill. I keep receiving texts about payment today, so I’m getting frustrated about where my money went. Instinctively, I was going to pay online, at first. I will wait until the night hits to decide whether or not this will become an issue. I considered going in to see today, but I shall wait until midnight. I have wet the receipt, so it has been thrown out and I’m not sure how I will confirm this payment/purchase because it is not showing up on my account. Was not an AutoPay payment though, so we shall see.

I finally got around to the pictures, they came out just as I had wanted them. Look forward to taking more.

The other location I started at is going well. Two days in a row I was asked to leave early. Good for going home to smoke, but incredibly upset (about leaving, as I informed them). I was intended to be back tomorrow, but will be at my regular location instead. No issues, just extremely unexpected.

My head coach randomly starts becoming condescending and angry. I’m starting to think, “BITCH DO YOU WANT ME TO QUIT!?”

I went to my original location assignment after both days for my chicken salad. Told one of the managers that it’s better, here. The tall girl with the fat ass was there. Sadly, she works next on my off day. Cutie. Peeped she had some great titties yesterday too. Caught me off guard on every occasion. Now I have to fuck her. I’m not sure if I like tall white girls, black girls or short white girls with a fat ass. Crippling thoughts. Maybe just all.

Remembered this girl from college (second one). Bitch disgusts me, is annoying and most importantly is racist as fuck. I hate this bitch and her big titties. I said I’d never fuck her. She fucked this one dude I was friends with and dated the other. Now, I thought they were dumbasses for getting played by this one bitch (they called me after), but now I’m going to be dumb with them. This bitch makes me want to throw up on myself and I still want to fuck her. Damn…bitch got game…

Still playing goalie at your dream girl’s DMs. I’m like the 2010s Chicago Blackhawks bitch. Messaged this one girl from high school. STUPID fat ass and big titties. Guaranteed quarter finalist in girls I’d still fuck in any bracket.

Messaged these two married bitches. One to let her know she’s not taking our relationship seriously and the other to know she was thick (in her wedding photos). Damn, the 20+ers are going in on marriage and engagements. You bitches don’t cheat anymore?

- MH (2023)

[12/12/2023 - 6:22PM]

Dolphins lost to Titans. Chiefs lost to Bills. Jaguars lost. Browns still in it. Ravens on top, it’s looking like. Texans?

Eagles lost BAD to 49ers AND Cowboys. Terrible for the best record and a few next bests. Still very good playoff potential (preparation against best opponents). Lions? Tough loss to the Bears. I just told my African American manager he could relaunch from where his high school football career went wrong and play for the Bears. We have a wide receiver with 1000+ yards and 6 TDs and we don’t even have 5 wins. Well now we do and beat one of the best teams. He also did returns as well for special teams. He may be on my shitlist, but I really think he could do this (unfortunately). He actually has several talents. Is just an asshole. Acting and/or comedy would be his next best options for success. Unfortunately, people think I’m joking when I suggest these things.

Oh, and Florida State. Might be #4, but better than being Alabama and not in it. People were scaring the shit out of me with the post game day ranking updates. Temporary, but they’re still in it. Ohio State, Alabama & Texas were upsets with those losses, still. I still believe the lower rankings in the Top 25 should be able to knock off #1.

[hospitalterrorizer]

diary51

11/1-2/2023

wednesday - thursday

today sucked but that's okayyy.

not really but whatever. it's not because errands themselves were stressful. but first i should list off positives of the day, i made a guitar sound just now, it's crazy feedback freakshit, really cool to me, kind of really gets the pv stuff down too, which is mental. i recorded vocals and re-wrote lyrics for that song, and i'm sure i'll need to go back in, but it's huge to have that idea down and stuff.

anyways, today sucked because my gf's mom decided, while she and my gf were out together separate from me, me in the laundromat, laying into her about basically random bullshit, from me not having a job (i try! no one wants to hire me, there's huge gaps in my employment history, i can't act right in interviews or something i guess, sometimes i accidentally put "would prefer not to answer" for questions of gender on the questionnaire things, and it's apparently not something you're meant to do) and then getting into how we behaved on the trip, she believes for some reason that i think there is no war in israel when what i said to her, days ago in arizona, was that world war 3 is not going to start and china is not looking to invade america or use a nuclear weapon on us because one why would they start mutually assured destruction, unless they destroy america totally and just america (and what would they get?? no land, no resources, they are extracting all the capital they could want because they have beaten us at manufacturing and basically everything (we still have to see if they will achieve communism tho (i hope they do))), and two like i just said, they have beaten us industrially, america wants to stoke hate for china to start something because one: america is racist and evil and two: humiliated about not being number 1 (and all boomers are too thus the china is evil fantasy). i was also pro palestine and said that israel is obviously to blame here in every way, because they hold their people hostage essentially feeding these deaths to justify greater and greater strides towards genocide. in the car, she was agreeing with me, but she just does that. she also kept talking about how she had family who were in the military, and a husband too, and like wow who cares, the first place they test all the propaganda, where all the red scare cold war bullshit hit first, panic over those paper tigers that are kept to just destroy the world if we wanna. stupid. she also brought up multiple times that i am uneducated because i didn't get my degree because i could not justify going to school during covid virtually because i would be so bad at it and stuff, so she thinks i am like a stupid uneducated hick, something she loves to use against all kinds of people!!!!! she's so classist it honestly makes me sick.

she also brought up bill maher, and how disrespectful we were, and how she was so upset hearing us make jokes, and my gf asked if she thought i liked hearing him make bathroom gender jokes, and her mom was like "well he's just a man. it's a choice. he isn't one of them right." and a bunch of other shit, so my gf came in to tell me all this, she sees her telling me, and then she just calls my gf to say that if she's going to have a conversation then at least include her, and then she literally abandons us in the fucking laundromat for a while until my gf calls her, and during the call she begins ranting about bill maher again, and how he's making jokes for a different generation and how we don't understand, and also how i need to "pick a side, he's either transgender or not." and more stupid nonsense, but she at least comes to get us again. the whole rest of the day she acts like nothing happened, and that she isn't an abusive/manipulative bitch. my gf cursed her out during the first go around, and she was so pathetic, she acted like she was being abused and had to get away from her evil daughter defending her partner and getting upset her mother is literally a stupid and bad person who can't get over gentle banter over fucking bill maher. i can't believe he's developed into this great a problem in my life. he is a demon that looms in my existence now until i die, or he dies. not that i am wishing for his death (sincere, it feels awful to wish for people to die unless they are intensely rich demons like bezos who have so much funding behind them they are literally impervious to wishing (i think my superstitious sectors of my brain are over active in unfun ways that can rule my life sometimes but whatever (just washing my hands of intent and telling everyone my intent is perfect and good and i would never hurt anybody i am just nice and happy and not evil)))

it's so whatever, literally too stupid for earth.

this isn't even all the news of the day though, my gf's brother had a party last night, and he had a friend over who was on acid, coke, weed, and booze, and he had an ego death moment, obsessed over his own death a while, shit himself, ripped his clothes off, screamed, slammed his head into their mirror and broke the thing into one million pieces or whatever, climbed on the countertop of their kitchen totally naked, screamed about dying more, and ran out of the house to beat a cop up and steal his car and drive it 5 miles out into a car with 2 people in it. there is a video.

needless to say he is traumatized, his friend is in the trauma unit, the people he crashed into are in the trauma unit, no one is going to come out of this even half okay.

hearing that, and the thing with her mom insulting me behind my back (not new but it sucks and this is the worst it's ever gotten), today is kind of a stupid nightmare. but i feel okay basically. i was more pissed earlier and my gf left a drink in the laundromat, she mentioned it in the car ride to the grocery store, and i said "another one of today's disappointments" and her mom said something and we just said it had nothing to do with her, the statement. maybe that sucked of me. whatever, kind of. i don't like being mean but how else is she supposed to take the hint that she is being not a good or even likeable person when she acts like this, and is only being delusional when she believes she's in the right.

and i totally am grateful she drives us around to help us run our errands, she doesn't have to but, like, she does it because she thinks she's going to get payment from it some day, and she also does this because literally, i hate to bring it to him again, but she has fantasies of her daughter going on bill maher or cnn, and hoping her daughter would agree with anything she says in her head, she'd get to finally have her genius thoughts spat out in the most meaningless information streams the general public are exposed to, hoping her daughter will be an 'expert' that can be used by the media to bludgeon people with basically because they are wrong and she would, being her daughter and hopefully (but in actuality she disagrees with her entirely) agree with her, and prove that she, ******a, is right about everything. she would like to reduce her daughter that she has beaten, manipulated, called an accident, into a mouth piece and robs her of herself totally in her daydreams. a miserable excuse for a parent. i am grateful though. i try to like her. sometimes she is a very kind woman, or she makes the effort which counts i guess, but my gf is beyond ever being convinced that she really is nice, rightfully so, i'm just on my way there, i am going to lay down in a sea on the other end of some mountains and let the sea take me away, the wash whispering oh well a million times over.

some people only have ressentiment. that's how her mother is. the wasted life. she hates that i don't work because hard work is all that matters, she doesn't see the ways i work hard but all her hard work has given her is arthritis and misanthropy.

i should put some images here about this vague malaise.

yanase masamu - a length of capitalist's drool.

combatwoundedveteran - this is not an erect all-red neon body

mark mccoy - wound

hans bellmer - la poupee

ilona jurgiel (idk if she called this anything, striking though)

jean cocteau (tragically i do not know where this is from, making me feel stupid, but it strikes me right now as meaningful).

i don't know if these images connect at all really for anyone else but they are pretty things to adorn myself with, little resonant chimes that harmonize with right now distantly, or maybe in detuned 5ths, some kind of gamelan tonal array.

i always feel like anything where someone has their guts out though, re: mark mccoy + the cwv album cover.

anwayssssssssss ughhhhhhhhhhhh uhhhhhhh:

byebye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rainbow-burst]

It's almost really kind of interesting sad and disturbing all at the same time and I hope someone does a research on how doja cat just could easily ruin her career over being disrespectful, rude, racist and just disgusting. Like this girl got called out like three times already and she got saved by her music..

But here's the gag. people say that doja cat is just a quirky weird "black girl" (last time I checked black girls don't make fun of other black girls and go on private chat rooms with ugly 30-year-old white racist men talking about how they hate their black side) but I never knew being quirky and weird was calling a 16 year old child a snake, going on tiny chat after the whole scandal of going on private chat rooms talking to racist men, dating an ugly ass dude who turned out to be a groo//mer and pe//dophile, and lastly but not least being hella disrespectful to fans who basically is paying for all her bills putting food in her stomach and been supporting her for years.

Even recently well actually yesterday all her big fan pages deactivated on Twitter over what she said and also recently she just lost 200,000 followers on Instagram.. and I know someone or some people may be like well it doesn't really matter because you can't equal followers with Fame yeah you're right. But with her being on top of everything and being well known in the r&b, pop and rap genre and her acting like this she's not going to have no followers nor Fame and she's pretty much going to have a study made on her about how she was easily at the top just to ruin it all because of her shitty attitude..

And I knew ever since that whole racist scandal with her, there was going to be more shit because there's no way a girl like doja cat who basically got to slap on the wrist for not only being biracial as hell and sometimes white passings at times, was not going to have another controversy like she did those few years ago in that weird private chatroom.

And the reason why she got away with it was because of her music and also her being biracial. if this was a dark-skinned girl like flow Milli, doechi or megan the stallion they would have thrown those girls away so fast..

It's so funny knowing that doja cat is literally out here destroying whatever left of her career over her being disrespectful to fans over them calling out her boyfriend who is a ped/o and a gro//omer

[reasoningdaily]

JACKSON SAYS BACK BACK WE GOT THIS: Jackson city leaders pass resolution opposing House Bill 1020, calling the bill racist and disrespectful

JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - House Bill 1020 continues to receive a lot of backlash. This time from the Jackson City Council.

During a special called meeting on Friday, the council passed a resolution saying they oppose the bill.

The council also voted to give a copy of the resolution to every lawmaker in the House and Senate.

Under this bill, the Mississippi Supreme Court would appoint judges to hear civil and criminal cases in the Capital Complex Improvement District.

The legislation would also expand CCID to County Line Road.

The bill states the Attorney General’s Office would be responsible for appointing prosecutors to take on these cases, and public defenders would work underneath the Mississippi Public Defenders.

City leaders question the timing of this proposed takeover, calling the bill disrespectful and racist.

“I am in favor of trying to keep Jackson safe, but not this way,” said Councilwoman Angelique Lee, who represents Ward 2. “I’m also opposed to how the boundaries are drawn. It appears racist on its face, and it is not equally representative of the citizenry Jackson, Mississippi, which is majority black.”

“People of Hinds County, city of Jackson have their rights, and their rights can’t be taken away, won’t be taken away without a fight,” said Councilman Vernon Hartley, who represents Ward 2.

“At the end of the day, we have to deal with the culture that is at that State Capitol, which is, the city of Jackson has their own Representatives, their own elected officials, let them deal figure this stuff out, and if they can’t do it we’ll come in and take over,” said Councilman Aaron Banks, who represents to Ward 5. “At the end of the day, all of this is about them wanting to take over and put their own district within the Capital City of Jackson, and this is our home. Instead of embracing us, they just want to takeover, and we oppose that.”

City leaders held a press conference immediately following the council meeting, showing a unified front that they all disagree with this bill.

“A lot of these bills that affect our city are being introduced without any input from the people who actually live here and the elected representatives that serve with the other members of the legislature,” said Senator Davis Blount, who represents District 29, which includes Hinds County. Lawmakers have until February ninth to vote on this bill. If it doesn’t come up for a vote by that time, the bill will die.

[diallokenyatta]

#DaveChappelle is the living embodiment of a Class Enemy (aka House NGRo). He said he doesn't seek to be like Malcom X cuz X "died broke," & he aligns with rich Racist like Joe Rogan & Elon Musk. His wealth is his culture, that's where his Solidarity is rooted, not with his Race.🤡 When people were booing Elon Musk, Dave said the people booing were all "siting in the cheap seats." Disrespecting his own fans to defend a Racist, like a well-trained attack dog.🐕 When the Whites inevitably turn on him he'll rediscover his Blackness & come crawling back to the community just like all the other House NGRos do. The tragedy is the Black Community will embrace, forgive, & forget all of his transgressions & rally around him just like we did with Michael Jackson, Kanye, Bill Cosby, etc.🦝 I told yall to stop calling Dave an "Icon," he's Minstrel.👎🏿 (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmFHkCWOUcH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[bondsmagii]

So I work cleaning rich people's houses, I work one or two days a week for each family I work with, but i have this problem with one specifically family that doesn't agree with me working for other people. They only pay for two days a week, and yet expect me to show up at their house on days I'm actually working at other house, usually because they have guests and want the house to look the best it can and even though I have told them I can't just show up at their house any day they want because I have other families I can't let down, they don't agree because "we're already paying you enough".

From my perspective, if they want me to be available for them any day and hour, they should be paying me the full week because I can't pay my bills with the two days they pay me...sure, they don't pay bad, but I think the amount they pay is fair enough considering how massive their house is and how messy their toddlers are (who destroy all the cleaning I do within an hour or less). Should I just stop working for them? I don't really like them as they often make jokes about my south-american ethnicity, jokes that are kinda denigrating and really bad taste, not to tell how demanding they can be and this whole "you must be available for us 24/7" :/

man, they have two choices here:

hire you full-time so you can be at their beck and call, but pay you full-time for the privilege;

shut the fuck up and accept they've only hired you part-time, so you're under no obligation to drop everything for them and screw over other clients.

I do not think it's likely that they'll do the sensible thing. they obviously don't value your time or your effort, and even if they do pay you well, it's clear that they feel more entitled to your labour than they're compensating you for. not to mention the fact they clearly don't respect you as a person, if they're being racist towards you.

if you can afford to do so, I think it would probably be best to fire them as clients. even if they did decide to retain you full-time, I don't think it's right that you should be disrespected constantly by their comments. you're providing them with a service, and you should be able to do so without being racially abused. these people seem like assholes, and you'd be better off not having to deal with them. reserve your labour for people who treat you like a human.

[thechanelmuse]

Finding out you're going to be a mother is like accepting one of the most prestigious jobs in the world, but for women in the athletic industry, it's one that also comes at a very expensive price point.

In May, Allyson Felix, who now holds the record for earning the most gold medals in World Championships history, opened up about how starting a family required her to take a 70% pay cut from her Nike endorsement deal. Recently, in a shocking tweet, WNBA player Skylar Diggins-Smith revealed that she was scoring buckets with a baby full of belly for an entire season due to fear of lack of support from her organization.

The Indiana-born 29-year-old Dallas Wings player started her professional career in 2013 and six years later, after becoming a four-time WNBA All-Star, wife, and mother, spoke her truth via Twitter last weekend.

Athletic companies don't seem to care about Black mothers and athletes like Allyson Felix and Skylar Diggins-Smith refuse to be silent about it any longer. Skylar, who gave birth to her first child in April, first announced her pregnancy last October nearly two months after finishing out the five-month season.

Since then, she has taken maternity leave to focus on her family and received backlash from internet trolls and sports fans alike as a result of her absence. But Skylar had a classy clapback for her critics and opened up about that she had been hiding from the world for months:

"I played the ENTIRE season pregnant last year! All star, and led league (top 3-5) in MPG….didn't tell a soul."

In the tweets, Skylar also revealed that postpartum depression had played a huge part in both her hiatus from the sport and her new journey as a mother. Although WNBA rules state that if a player becomes pregnant, they are entitled to half their salary and have all of their medical bills paid, it's unclear if Skylar's employers kept up their end of the deal because the athlete went on to say that she was offered "limited" resources for recovery. 

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Black women in American face the highest infant mortality rates. The amount of stress, disrespect, pressure, ridicule and health disparities that Black women are subjected to during and post-pregnancy, jeopardizing the wellbeing of our children and ourselves to be everybody else’s content and willing superhero mule 24/7 is fucking insane. Why can’t we too enjoy our pregnancies and be treated with care and respect?...

AMERICA IS FAILING ITS BLACK MOTHERS

For decades, Harvard Chan alumni have shed light on high maternal mortality rates in African American women. Finally, policymakers are beginning to pay attention.

Serena Williams knew her body well enough to listen when it told her something was wrong. Winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles, she’d been playing tennis since age 3—as a professional since 14. Along the way, she’d survived a life-threatening blood clot in her lungs, bounced back from knee injuries, and drowned out the voices of sports commentators and fans who criticized her body and spewed racist epithets. At 36, Williams was as powerful as ever. She could still devastate opponents with the power of a serve once clocked at 128.6 miles per hour. But in September 2017, on the day after delivering her baby, Olympia, by emergency C-section, Williams lost her breath and recognized the warning signs of a serious condition.

She walked out of her hospital room and approached a nurse, Williams later told Vogue magazine. Gasping out her words, she said that she feared another blood clot and needed a CT scan and an IV of heparin, a blood thinner. The nurse suggested that Williams’ pain medication must be making her confused. Williams insisted that something was wrong, and a test was ordered—an ultrasound on her legs to address swelling. When that turned up nothing, she was finally sent for the lung CT. It found several blood clots. And, just as Williams had suggested, heparin did the trick. She told Vogue, “I was like, listen to Dr. Williams!”

But her ordeal wasn’t over. Severe coughing had opened her C-section incision, and a subsequent surgery revealed a hemorrhage at that site. When Williams was finally released from the hospital, she was confined to her bed for six weeks.

Like Williams, Shalon Irving, an African American woman, was 36 when she had her baby in 2017. An epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), she wrote in her Twitter bio, “I see inequity wherever it exists, call it by name, and work to eliminate it.”

Irving knew her pregnancy was risky. She had a clotting disorder and a history of high blood pressure, but she also had access to top-quality care and a strong support system of family and friends. She was doing so well after the C-section birth of her baby, Soleil, that her doctors consented to her request to leave the hospital after just two nights (three or four is typical). But after she returned home, things quickly went downhill.

For the next three weeks, Irving made visit after visit to her primary care providers, first for a painful hematoma (blood trapped under layers of healing skin) at her incision, then for spiking blood pressure, headaches and blurred vision, swelling legs, and rapid weight gain. Her mother told ProPublica that at these appointments, clinicians repeatedly assured Irving that the symptoms were normal. She just needed to wait it out. But hours after her last medical appointment, Irving took a newly prescribed blood pressure medication, collapsed, and died soon after at the hospital when her family removed her from life support.

Viewed up close, the deaths of mothers like Irving are devastating, private tragedies. But pull back, and a picture emerges of a public health crisis that’s been hiding in plain sight for the last 30 years.

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From: Ali A. Rizvi. “The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason.”

The reality is, for most ex-Muslims who were raised in Islam, leaving the religion is a moral choice, as became readily apparent in the #ExMuslimBecause social media campaign described in chapter 3. This isn’t unique to Islam. Atheists from all kinds of backgrounds frequently say they broke from their religious upbringing because they found these religious “values” to be unacceptable. They consider the secondary status of women, the often-violent discrimination against gays, and the tribalistic exclusion and “otherization” of those deemed “infidels” and “kuffar”—or those who aren’t “chosen” or “saved”—to be divisive and morally abhorrent.

Why is it that rejecting illiberal ideas like misogyny and homophobia is a hallmark of liberalism, but when the exact same ideas are part of a religion like Islam, criticizing them becomes bigotry or Islamophobia? Why is it that domestic violence is considered unacceptable in any civil society, but truthfully stating the Quran endorses beating your wife (verse 4:34) is seen as an offense to an aggrieved minority? Why is it that homophobic rhetoric from the Ku Klux Klan or evangelical Christians is widely denounced by liberals, but correctly stating that the deplorable treatment of gays by Saudi Arabia, Iran, or the Islamic State has basis in the Quran and hadith is considered anti-Muslim bigotry? Why is it that men who marry children are universally lambasted, but speaking critically of the Prophet Muhammad’s marriage to his best friend’s nine-year-old daughter is “disrespectful”?

On October 3, 2014, liberal talk show host Bill Maher brought this up to his guest and fellow liberal, Sam Harris. Why is it, he asked, that liberals become upset when it is pointed out that the same values that they otherwise applaud—free speech, freedom of religion, equality for women, gays, and minorities—are lacking in the Muslim world? Harris expanded on this, pointing out how liberals openly criticize Christians, referencing abortion clinic bombings in the 1980s, but somehow cower when one brings up the inhumane treatment of women, homosexuals, and secularists in the Muslim world. Notably, he denounced the term “Islamophobia” for conflating any legitimate criticism of Islamic doctrine with bigotry toward Muslims, calling it “intellectually ridiculous.”

Also present as a guest on the show was actor Ben Affleck, who was growing visibly agitated. He angrily interrupted the interview to tell Maher and Harris that what they were saying was “gross” and “racist.” By the time Harris tried to clarify that he was pointing out the difference between criticism of Islam (an idea) and bigotry against Muslims (a people), Affleck had become too emotional to listen clearly, accusing Maher and Harris of “stereotyping” and “painting the whole religion” with the same brush. In essence, Affleck proved Harris’s point—that liberals too often miss the crucial distinction between criticizing ideas and demonizing people, and end up conflating the two.

Anti-Muslim hate is a real thing, and is no longer limited to just white supremacists, nationalists, or far-right bigots. On November 19, 2015, a fourteen-year-old schoolgirl in New York City was placed in a headlock by three boys in her class who punched her repeatedly and called her “ISIS” while trying to yank off her hijab. Just imagining something like this happening to my own beloved niece is heartbreaking to me. As a man with a similar name, heritage, and look as the Muslims I grew up with, I am as much a potential target for these thugs as my Muslim family and friends. So, again, let me be clear: anti-Muslim bigotry is real, it exists, and it is wrong.

This is all the more reason why umbrella terms like “Islamophobia”—which conflate criticism of Islam with anti-Muslim bigotry—are so sinister. Semantics matter. When legitimately criticizing illiberal elements of Islam—as we might do any other religion or political ideology—elicits accusations of bigotry and racism, it abruptly ends an important conversation that needs to be had. Calling someone a bigot, racist, or Islamophobe isn’t a counterargument. It’s a lazy substitute for one. Yet we all fall for it. Liberals—particularly conscientious white liberals well informed about history—don’t want to be called bigots or racists. And they certainly don’t want to be seen as beating up on a minority. I can tell you firsthand that many religious minorities know how this works. They know they can deflect criticism against their cultural or religious beliefs simply by accusing white liberals of bigotry or racism, guilting them not only into silence but also, on occasion, a near-unconditional advocacy for everything good or bad the minority group does.

I can also tell you firsthand that many white Western liberals privately acknowledge holding back their opinions on Islam for fear of being seen as Islamophobic—what I call “Islamophobia-phobia”—or in the interest of supporting moderates within the Muslim community who share their goals of fighting jihad and fundamentalism. This is not to say they are not sincere: they do believe the vast majority of Muslims are good people, and that the only real hope of eradicating the scourge of jihad is to bolster them. Still, many have reservations about Islam, the religion, as they do about Christianity, which is easier to publicly criticize. They’ll talk to me about it because they know how I think, but won’t bring it up in front of our Muslim friends out of respect. It’s also much more difficult for a white person to make those arguments the way a person with my looks can, without accusations of racism or bigotry. Bill Maher and Sam Harris dared to do it, and that was exactly the response they got.