https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1544409932883181569

  • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I dunno about the imagery because I’m neither middle eastern nor Muslim, so I’d love to hear some opinions on that from people who have some relevant lived experiences.

    That said, the Y’all Quaeda jokes must flow

    • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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      2 years ago

      Even from a perspective that isnt directly related to that, its bad because its still just more libshit projection and denial of American homegrown issues as "foreign".

      • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Ah okay, yeah. I thought of it as pointing out the hypocrisy of people who oppose far-right groups abroad while supporting far right groups domestically. But I suppose it’s still associating the imagery. Like it others people who very much represent the ingroup

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Even "y'all" is stupid there because they are a bunch of fucking northeastern ivy league freaks or whatever

      • DinosaurThussy [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        I’m in a Trump country area of a northern blue state, so “y’all” probably has different connotations for me. Around here, the people who say “y’all” are the upper middle class folks whose dads have shiny current-year off-road pickups that they drive 10 minutes to work and back each day. They’re doing an affect thing. The more poor rural people tend to be very softspoken and have a dialect that’s distinct, but also audibly northern. So maybe the weird classism is just baked into my understanding of the word because it’s not the second person plural that my dialect uses by default.

        Regardless, I am definitely reconsidering all this

        • SerLava [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          Oh that's weird, but I suppose it's similar to a lot of places outside the south, where conservatives just picked up shit-tier country music in the last 15 years and started driving trucks

          But I think the thing people think of usually when they hear y'all qaida is an association with southerners