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So let me get this straight. So. according to you, gay people who are "woke" which is an attack word that can't really be defined because it isn't a real thing, just a cynical political tactic by far right wing people trying to rationalize bigotry and discrimination, aren't actually even human beings. No, they are vampires. It doesn't surprise any more the extremely toxic and dangerous levels that the global far right wing goes to demonize and dehumanize gay people. First, it's they're "groomers" which is basically a Putin fascist tactic, and has now graduated to vampires? The danger in all this is not so called "woke" people. The actual target is the group of racial and sexual minorities that the far right wingers hate so very much and insist on keeping as oppressed underlings (as they are of course in their eyes of superior supremacist value). We have seen this kind of scapegoating in history and now we see it yet again and we know where it leads. The vampire thing, sucking blood indeed mirrors classic European blood libel tropes. People, don't be fooled. This isn't really about woke / anti-woke.

Tell what?

Well he promised to do something about this issue and now he has. Many Americans are suffering under this debt and a large percentage of people never got the hoped for payoff from the schooling. You can't bankruptcy out of student debt. The policy itself is helping some people that really need it, not helping many people enough to really address their debt, and just giving free money to many that really don't need the help. But overall I think it's a political win for Biden and the democrats and it will at least do some good. If it was more restrictive towards only low income people then Republicans would attack that too as communist. Can't convert right wingers but you can build strength among moderates.

Methinks you use the word wokies way too much. It's a culture wars attack word that's been coopted by right wing people trying to defend all sorts of social ills. I don't know the UK history of minstrel shows but I know in the US black people hated it as demeaning. When blacks put on blackface it was not because they liked it but because it was work.

I agree with the author Her behavior was a bit much. I would have been tempted to respond to you will get a visa with will I? Just because US immigration is worse is no reason to not be critical of Thai immigration.

Many US whites fear losing their privilege and having to compete on a level playing field with non whites. So that fear fuels anti democratic pro authoritarian white nationalist political movements based on white resentment.

Ad hominem garbage. I posted it to show that US whites are not literally becoming a minority but only becoming less than 50 percent compared to all non whites. That link did that. White resentment sufferers hear whites are becoming a minority and often don't register that difference in definition of minority. The rules here forbid quoting more than the first sentences of any link. Brookings is a mainstream centrist source overall. Not that it matters in this context.

Do you question the statistics?!? If so, present your source.

Yeah better to do it behind their backs. As someone that can "pass" in two regards, I know that is real.

To the sort that use "woke" as an attack word, it sure is.

I call B.S.! White resentment is a social disease. What's referred to is if you ADD UP all the NON-WHITES then whites will eventually be a little less than 50 percent, Get the BIG difference? The US will become ‘minority white’ in 2045, Census projects (brookings.edu)

Many will disagree but social context matters. Such as the demographics and racial pecking order of a particular community. Germans with their history pointing out big noses is objectively different and more loaded than a Jewish girl expressing desire for a nose job among Jewish peers. I think by far the bulk of nose jobs done globally are among Asians to change the shape. Love your nose! https://english.elpais.com/culture/2022-04-25/barbra-streisand-the-80-year-old-star-who-did-not-fix-her-nose-and-who-sets-her-own-rules.html

Big hooked nose? Blame it on the Hittites. Apparantly it occurs frequently among Mediterranean people in general, Jews and non Jews but not even close to a majority of them. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_nose

What does that mean?

French?

Found this one, basically a cheeky prank / Cali dudes bromance show.. I do love the name Chad and J.T. Go Deep. Just sampling it now. Probably too sophomoric for my tastes but I intend to go deeper and give it a go. Protect Our Boarders!

Hmm. Well I watched the first episode and found it painfully boring. I can't relate to the characters at all. It came off as a low quality production. So no more Red Rose for me. On the other hand, I'm a big fan of the Sex Education show. Pretty much the opposite of Red Rose. It hooks you in hard from episode one, the characters and story lines are highly relatable and entertaining, a very slick production indeed.

I agree as I have my example of how I can easily identify Ethiopians based on appearance. We all do such things at least internally. The German was clumsy about it but it was still very trivial. But a good topic to spark a discussion.

There is German humor?

Are you joking? Have you been to Turkiye?

Hmm. This topic is kind of fun and loaded as heck. The German gentleman sounds like he lacks social finesse but it's impossible to know his intentions from that comment. If I was a manager I would take no action. But going deeper there is some level of reality behind many superficial ethnic physical characteristics. Many things such as skin color, nose shapes and sizes, lip thickness, head shapes, hair texture and on and on. Race might not be real except as a social construct but racism is real and so is diversity of superficial ethnic physical characteristics. These types of differences are a teeny tiny part of our genetic codes Having one sort of hair texture rather than another isn't inferior or superior but can make a person stand out if a minority. I have a lot of exposure to Ethiopian and Eritrean people. As a rough generality I can tell them from other Africans just by looking. On meeting such a person I might ask if they're Ethiopian. Is that racist? I don't think so. As a Jew I have some typical Ashhkenazi physical characteristics but not a particularly big schnoz. When I visited Deutschland as a teen and even visiting German restaurants in Thailand I felt a little uncomfortable about standing out. Can they tell the Juden? Which of them especially the older ones are Nazis? There was even a scary incident in a small Austrian town at a restaurant where we were getting shockingly bad service actually no service at all. My group all 15 year olds two Jews and ane swarthy Italian with curly hair and a very big nose started laughing about the situation and even undiplomaticly uterred the slur krauts. Well oops the old Austrians heard us and things started to get ugly with them cursing Amerikaners. We never did get served there. Yeah luckily I guess they didn't read us as Jews but they were obviously old Nazis so being American was bad enough.

It's downright fascist.

Or truth!

Happy he did. Crudité.

Small correction. Each episode of the older show, Nathan For You, does stand on it's own. However, in The Rehearsal, the first episode can stand on it's own (and gives a good sample of the odd concept of the series), but episode two to the end are part of continuing story. Be advised that The Rehearsal is very dark. Many will hate it. Sample of the lighter, Nathan For You.