If you've invited a lib into your apartment, it's entirely on you. Don't be surprised if they start colonizing your apartment and call it "Aid" or "Democracy" or something.
Yeah, it's like inviting a vampire into your home and then being surprised when it tries to drink your blood.
If you don't invite a lib in, they're bound by arcane laws of civility to stay out.
The scorpion wouldn't sting me while on my back, then we'd both die.
The scorpion complained about wearing a mask during the pandemic. The scorpion fears not its own demise.
You should just respect the customs of whoever's house it isI can't tell people not to I touch things in my apartment? Fucking what?
Don't these people worship property and ownership?
Only as a convenient vehicle for dominating their surroundings. The moment it conflicts with what they want they snap.
You already know the person who wrote this article wants to keep their shoes on in the apartment.
"Please don't touch my emotional support ball of radium and asbestos"
"Fuck you, I'm the guest, I do whatever I want"
They worship their own property. The property of non-white people is being misused or underutilized, and therefore it is their right and responsibility to take control of it.
They care about property, not possessions. It's why they're anti-piracy even if you're only using your own possessions to do it.
The thing about western individualism is the ethos is “fuck you, no one tells ME what to do!”
The keyword is ME. Individualism is thinking rules are beneath you, but hypocritically, rules should only apply to other people.
This is the stupidest take on hospitality I've ever seen. This person needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of Derrida's "On Hospitality" until they become unconscious or learn something, whichever happens first.
That's the Derrida book I think about the most. Unironically a great read
It has informed so much of what I do, working with food and conviviality. I come back to it every now and then, and it's still fresh.
It is a source for one of my favorite ethical essays, too.
Have you read Levinas? Derrida's later stuff takes a lot of inspiration from his ideas about ethics and justice
I have, based on what Derrida referenced on his writings on hospitality and his Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, but I haven't gone in detail on it.
If you're interested in seeing a food-related take to ethics as hospitality, I really recommend the essay "Ethics is Hospitality" by Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke, too.
Time and the Other is a banger. He wrote most of it in a German POW camp
I'll check that essay out, thanks!
Downloading the book right now! Thanks!
The whole book "Philosophers at table" (where the essay is from) is really good, if you've ever felt the need to overthink food like I do daily lol.
I really love Of God Who Comes to Mind.
Good selection of essays in that one.
As a cracker, when I enter someone's house I immediately go to their couch and begin rubbing my dirty shoes into it while yelling "fuck your couch!"
Finally! I'm not alone! We experimental homunculi gotta stick together and stand up for our rights to be filthy piggies
Do some crackers actually wear their outside shoes in bed? I see it in movies sometimes and it's such an absurd annoying detail.
that's just convenient for films, not a documentary detail of yankee lifestyle. im sure somebody does it tho
I did it once as a kid because I was so excited to go on a trip. I went to bed in my clothes, all picked out. Shoes on. Ready to face the day. So excited I could barely sleep.
We of course left the house one hour later than intended because my family are perpetually tardy.
And that's the origin story of my villain arc.
"hosting is letting people do whatever the fuck they want actually"
fuck off, you can wait outside
I would like to shit on your floor and it's your duty as host to allow me that honor.
"In the corner, but at least a foot from any walls. Also preferably on tile or perhaps vinyl flooring not the carpet"
Me, explaining to my dog how to properly shit or puke in my house. Now expanded for feral liberals
the white libs also extremely quick to refuse to put on a fucking mask because their god emperor ended covid
Please don't lick the doorknobs, that's just for my DnD group
Hosting is letting you guests enjoy themselves
I will simply not be friends with anyone whose idea of comfort is shoes on in the house. Freakish behaviour.
Why do they not want to take off their shoes when they're someones' place? I don't understand the weird hills these jackass white libs want to die on.
: "You see, workers should have no rights because here in the west, we have a huge culture of respecting people's property!"you're either taking off your shoes at the door or leaving my apartment, so take your pick
Even I don't walk in my home in my shoes, ain't no way a visitor is either.
Wtf I support castle laws now (but only against white libs who refuse to take off their shoes).
The solution to this is to just not let anyone in your home, like I do.
People of colonial complexion apparently have a different definition of what is "rude". In any Latin American country I know, for example, "rude" is doing whatever you want in other people's homes. What to expect from a culture that normalizes staying in bed with shoes on. And if you're supposed to act like you're at home wherever you are, why leave your house?
it's the individualization of the mindset of colonialism. so at least they're being consistent here.
Well you see, the cumskins are correct, which is why they had to go all over the planet to tell brown people how wrong and barbaric their version of hospitality is. If white people's customs aren't objectively correct, how come all the other cultures are inferior?
To be real I thought the expectation was always "someone else's house, their rules" and this article is alarming. Despite being in
I was raised to obey the rules of whoever's house I am at, it is their space.What else to expect from settler ''culture''. For them it's about doing whatever they want at someone else's house and expense. Like huf said, at least it's consistent.
