My dates get really stoked when we trash maga chud trumpers, but when I whip out my "Obama is a war criminal" or "we should install communism" routines, it def kills the mood

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    I've ruined multiple nice lunches because someone asks me if Irish people are white, or says "I'm not communist, I'm ukranian" and I just forget how I was supposed to react and tear into them. I also love people saying "have you done your research on Israel?" and then just saying "it's too complex for me" after it's clear I have.

    • activated [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I made someone visibly unhappy because she was excited about going to see Hamilton and remembered that I had said (a while back) that I don't like LMM. She asked me why and I tried multiple times to brush it off and then finally I just dropped all of the info on how he's an austerity pushing colonialist. She took the news pretty hard but I don't know what she expected.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        You at least tried to brush it off, so you remembered your socialization. I just go right for the jugular on impulse these days unless I prepare myself carefully beforehand.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        It's the scene from Spider-Man 2 where Peter is complaining to Uncle Ben about how he doesn't want to be Spider-Man anymore in a dream, but Mao is slapping me upside the head while yelling about the types of liberalism.

        I'm honored anything I do in life can actually be considered in lines with revolution.

    • MathVelazquez [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Irish people are white

      Like a god damn bed sheet. You didn't ruin those nice lunches, fam. They did.

      • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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        3 years ago

        I always say Irish people aren't. We weren't once and I'll never see myself as one. You can't really define what it means to be white, just what isn't white. I acknowledge I have white privilege and currently benefit from colonialism, that sort of thing. But I firmly believe "white" people are an adversary and I'm only temporarily safe until whiteness is no more.

        • Dingdangdog [he/him,comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          I think in the US Irish people are pretty explicitly white, if you're in the UK you definitely have a point though

          • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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            3 years ago

            I'm from burgerland. I know in a "real" examination of race, and by that I mean if you are comparing housing of white people versus minorities or education levels or something actually important, Irish people are white. buried in a rant I wrote the other day about my relationship to being of Irish descent you can get the feel that I know Irish culture in America is dead, subsumed into whiteness. I wouldn't say I'm POC on a survey. But, in a very meaningful sense, I don't see myself as white.