TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)

I’ll do my best, yes.

Good luck, everyone. I genuinely hope you make it through as okay as you can.

You’re just looking for somebody to hate.

You’re supposed to look away from the mirror when you’re talking to someone.

“I just reread The Left Hand Of Darkness last month, and it’s such a great book.”

It was my introduction to her writing, and wow what a fucking book. I read it in two days, I couldn’t put it down.

I feel like a certain poster here is conveniently and transparently overlooking the word “DEVELOPING” in the title.

I notice the wikipedia article is still un-edited, too. Put your money where your mouth is if you’re so confident.

No sci-fi wasn’t an official thing, yet the title of this is ‘were developing the Afro-Futurism/Black Sci-Fi genre…’

I’d say a fictional story about slaves successfully rebelling and taking over a country, narrated by a scientist, who does science things, counts.

It is ridiculous how much hair-splitting is done when it’s Black culture, and I’m quite embarrassed by the attempt to claim entire wikipedia sections are ‘wrong’ like this.

(Not saying you’re saying that, I understand we’re on the same page.)

So looking up the Blake story it’s not really sci-fi at all?

You should edit the wikipedia entry then, because it disagrees with you.

"Samuel R. Delany described it as "about as close to an SF-style alternate history novel as you can get.

Further, while it incorporates elements of the fugitive slave narrative, Blake’s narrator is also a scientist, whose focus on data collection and research stand in repudiation of the racial science of the day.[10] In fact, this reflects one of Delany’s major themes: that Africa and its contributions to science and math were foundational to the Western world.[12]"

I mean, yeah, basically.

Seeing him setting himself on fire while taking on three chargers brang a tear to my eye.

It’s brought, not brang. Sorry this is physically painful for me, and I need to get better about it, but I had to say something. Otherwise agree 100%.

Very few games, let alone FPS’, have stories that hit Me like Marathons. I loved their idea of AI being created through boredom and insanity.

ourtant c’est plutôt commun au Québec. Ça s’enchaîne pas comme les sacres liturgiques mais c’est bien utilisé. Quelque chose peut être fucké. Une personne peut être fuckée. C’est fucking chiant. Fuck ça! Juste, fuck!

Au Canada, le juron francais que j’entends est ‘tabarnak’, ‘calice’, ‘ostie’ au lieu de ‘fuck.’

(So I was surprised)

She actually used English (for ‘fuck’ anyway), which surprised me.

She started with ‘the Nazi’s didn’t target transgender people’ which is…

You know, provably wrong.

And since she’s hanging out with more and more Nazi’s, it’s getting worse.

(EDIT: I think this video with Matt Bernstein and Natalie Wynn does a great job of explaining the current path Rowling is on. )

They were throwing temper tantrums over the owner of Kotaku telling them that they needed to write more gaming guides/articles instead of the social culture outrage garbage they had been spewing that tarnished their reputation.

So these attacks are gamergate garbage, thanks.

Also the article is from 2021, and mentions that the movements is at the beginning. Is the movement still active? Are the issues the same as the main BLM?

How is that relevant? The same fucking issue was protested all over the place. Hell, even my fellow punks are still at it.

Since June, the group say “racist scenes” on Sylt have increased attacks on refugees and asylum seekers after a clip of Germans chanting the Nazi slogan “Germany for the Germans – foreigners out” in a nightclub went viral.

The fight is the same, the location is the difference.

specifically made a point about European policies being racist.

By saying they’re xenophobic. Racism is xenophobic. It’s a root word we use for people who’re against people who don’t look/sound/whatever like they do. Racism is a specific target of that, but is still xenophobic. Being an elevated grammar nazi doesn’t mean it’s somehow better. “We don’t specifically hate black people, we hate non-white people.” Like congrats, your racism-apologism remains.

I am trying to explain to a stubborn american

And I remain a stubborn Canadian.

this shows how little it makes sense to talk about “in Europe” as if it’s a uniform thing.

Sure is.

The American racial dynamics are completely different from european ones.

I would say that European immigration policies are xenophobic

This is what you’ve been responding to this entire time:

To anyone reading this, this is textbook red herring fallacy. He’s changed it to ‘xenophobia and racism are totally different’ and then went mask-off with “In Europe something like black lives matter (and the reactionary all lives matter) do not exist because the societies are different.”

In Europe something like black lives matter (and the reactionary all lives matter) do not exist because the societies are different.

Albanians, Romanians, balcan people in general suffered a lot of discrimination (and to some extent still do) as there were huge migratory waves in the '90s, and they are all white

Are you doing a semantic argument about this, or…? Sure people from the Balkans can be ‘white’, but how the fuck does that mean there’s no racism involved? Because sometimes rich white people also target white minorities? What the fuck is this take?

The American racial dynamics are completely different from european ones.

What? What even is this argument? We’re a global society, people move around constantly.

I would say that European immigration policies are xenophobic, but it doesn’t have to do with skin color or with racism.

What are these takes, honestly? It’s not racist, it’s just about their… being not white? (Or being from a different land)