#political-correctness

[thepersonalwords]

In politics what you see is not what you get

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

[ravenkings]

[rabidpocketmonster]

[benevolenterrancy]

A man needs a hobby while he's waiting for his beloved disciple to return from the dead and torture him!!!

(SQQ is a complete fucking freak and I love him so much)

[odinsblog]

Give 👏 Amal 👏 Clooney 👏 her 👏 roses 👏

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

At your side [End of Season 2]

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[punishedgwyndolin]

let me just say i am sooooo so tired of white tme ppl saying shit like this on posts about transmisogyny like first off get off the cross you make a bad martyr, second off, maybe if you actually treated trans women of color as humans and heard us you’d understand that lesbians of color are in no way exempt or exonerated from reinforcing the transmisogyny that soaks through our communities

[sunlight-shunlight]

i don't have an excuse for this. woe. young solas be upon ye.

[ignoramusrenegade]

Gort doodles. Pre bg3 fit??? I dunno…..he looks like a pirate lol I don’t know how to draw fantasy clothes lol

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

That's exactly how it happened with both. "Woke" is just a 21st century rebranding of political correctness for kids with no knowledge of history. And the term "political correctness" is itself just cultural Marxism/Maoism, based upon the strange new interpretation of the word "correct" first found in Chairman Mao's Little Red Book back in the 1960s.

[sanshofox]

Little summary so far of the elections, for my non german followers:

Germany is unfortunately one big step closer to become a right wing country.

The conservative party cdu won the election. But the problem is that they developed negatively just like the conservative party, the republicans, in the US. They are more extreme in their views; lots of it is has right wing characteristics. They were even willing to cooperate with the right wing party afd, on an anti-immigration bill, which led to a public backlash. So as for better chances to win in today’s election the cdu had to row back on their bill. The majority of voters were gen x and boomers.

Spd and grüne, which were part of the coalition we had until now, lost a lot of points and are now in the middle field/ third place of votings. Their coalition era was a difficult one. Also lots of decisions were blocked/boycotted by the other coalition party: fdp. Which are luckily now out of the bundestag because they weren‘t even able to get the 5% vote njehehehe (additionally: christian lindner, fdp leader, that was responsible for this mess is now „out of a job“ as he resigns. One of the very few good outcomes today.). Spd and grüne apparently had the most votes from millenials and gen z (correction: in recent releases we see that spd had lots of voters from older gens too).

Die linke (leftist party) garnered a lot more votes than usual with almost 9%. This uptake is due to former spd and grüne voters now voting for them. Lots of first time voters (gen z) voted for die linke. But also gen z in general and millenials.

And now to the very bad news: the afd , the full on right wing party, is the second most voted party with around 20%, which is of course very bad news for germany‘s history. Most votes came from boomers, gen x and sadly, first time voters. (Correction: in recent releases we see that in fact the younger generations voted for afd, not boomers :( )

Coalition possibilities: For the sake of preventing afd to gain even more power, we hope for a cdu, spd and grüne coalition. But as I said before, the cdu was willing to work with the afd not too long ago and only rowed back because of public demands, but the cdu‘s goals stay the same nontheless. Friedrich merz, cdu leader, lies and contradicts himself a lot to get more votes. You could say he uses the same tactics like trump. So it wouldn’t surprise me when he lied about the cdu, spd, grüne coalition too and would choose the afd (depending on the final percentage outcome of course). Let’s hope for the best.

[aqlstar]

[francesderwent]

thinking about snarky cultural/theological commentary and. the thing about snark is this: it’s easy, and it’s instant gratification. it’s easy because you’re playing to a likeminded audience. you get the way they think, you know the sort of things they find ridiculous, and so you know what’s going to play well with them. it’s not that hard to come up with a zinger that’s going to earn you applause from your own side. it’s also pretty easy to make another human being who’s not on your side look stupid, because we’re stupid creatures and we all have plenty of exploitable weak spots. it’s preaching to the choir, and it’s preaching meanly to the choir. and then, your snark bears all its fruit right away. you get the glowing feeling of having scored points against the enemy while being patted on the back by your friends for being so brave. if you succeeded in being snarky, you get the rewards of snark that very instant.

on the other hand, seeking to share the truth you possess in a mode in which it could actually be received—that is, says St Thomas, according to the mode of the recipient—that’s hard, and it’s so far from being instantly gratifying that you may never see the fruits of it in this life. not only are you not thinking about your likeminded audience, you’re not even going to trot out the truth simply in the way you understand it and call it your best effort. rather, you have to try to get inside your interlocutor’s frame of mind and understand how the truth you know is going to fulfill their own priorities and longings. you have to understand them so well that you see the truth of their position, even if that truth is buried very very deep, and then see how that truth connects them to the truth you see. you have to be insightful, and compassionate, and so, so patient. you don’t get to score any points, with anybody. your interlocutor might still get annoyed with you and turn around and make you look stupid. but you can’t just say “I’m going to speak the truth and I don’t care who hears and how they take it”—you have to care how they take it, because the truth is relational, it’s given and received, not just spouted into a void. and frankly you have to care how they take it because you have to care about their salvation.

don’t get me wrong, there are times in every person’s life when they will be called to stand up and be counted, to put fumbling words to what they hold most dear even if they can’t make everyone understand. but I don’t know that it’s a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth, with no consideration given to who hears you and what they’ll hear in it—and it’s certainly not a virtue to be always focused on being seen saying the truth in a mean and funny way. “instruct the ignorant” is a spiritual work of mercy. but instruct the ignorant does not mean “instruct the ignorant while making the knowledgeable laugh and/or high five.”

[bunnyboy-juice]

NO MORE ASSOCIATING THINGS WITH FEMMES ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE PINK!HYPERFEM FEMMES ARE GREAT AND I LOVE YOU CAMPY FEMMES WHO EMBODY PINK BUT ALSO JESUS CHRIST CAN YOU GUYS NOT GO MORE THAN ONE DAY W/O TRYING TO SHOEHORN FEMMES INTO BEING ONLY PINK UWU BABIES. I AM FEMME AS IN GRASS AS IN DIRT AS IN TREE BARK AS IN WEEDS SPROUTING THROUGH THE SIDEWALK CEMENT. FEMME AS IN GENDER NONCONFORMITY AS IN FUCK YOU MY FEMININITY IS WHAT *I* SAY IT IS. FEMME AS IN DEPTH AND DARKNESS AND WARMTH AND TERROR. FEMME AS IN CAVES. FEMME AS IN LIGHTNING. FEMME AS IN AN AMALGAMATION OF TRAITS THAT I HAVE DECIDED ARE FEMININE REGARDLESS OF WHAT SOCIETY SAYS. FUCK IS IT THAT HARD TO UNDERSTAND?!???

[notbecauseofvictories]

also I've spent the last couple weeks reading some older historical romance novels, and my made up, wholly unverified hypothesis that in the 2000s romance authors finally grasped that the old-fashioned "no, don't! stop, you brute" etc. scenes were not really landing with audiences anymore. So they faced a conundrum about the future of the genre. Ultimately, I think they chose to quietly stop writing those heroes, and switch them out for a more sensitive model. Still dark and brooding! But with limits, often a Heart of Gold, and more general emotional intelligence.

Still, somewhere out there is a parallel universe where these authors decided to take the opposite approach---to write heroines as unhinged, cruel, impulsive, and emotionally ignorant as their heroes. I don't know if I want to live there, but I wouldn't mind a trip to their library sometime.

[rednblacksalamander]

This would make a great six-hour YouTube video.