I'll start: "Shoving x down our throats"

the amount of people who have told me i'm one of the good ones because "at least you don't shove gayness down our throats," or "i'm fine with it if they dont shove it down our throats" has made me cringe whenever i hear that phrase used in any context, even harmlessly. how about you guys?

  • Antiwork [none/use name, he/him]
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    10 months ago

    Just recently I learned square dancing has roots in slavery. Not that I ever really enjoyed square dancing,

    • Smeagolicious [they/them]
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      10 months ago

      Don't forget that square dancing had a major revival when Henry Ford started a campaign to promote it in order to counter the growing popularity of Jazz, which of course he saw as a Jewish plot to corrupt the youth with Black culture