Cursed knowledge (thelemmy.club)
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Cursed knowledge

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[โ€“] 74 points 3 months ago (2 children)

it's because you licked all of those things as a child, or things similar to them

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  • [โ€“] 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I mean.. it's my mind that knows. My tongue doesn't know shit

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 months ago

    According to reddit - back when I used to go there - and my dentist - back when I last visited him - the tongue will autonomously follow dentistry implements, generally without your awareness.

    Maybe it knows more than you think.

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  • [โ€“] 28 points 3 months ago

    You HAVE licked everything, you just don't remember cause you were a toddler.

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 3 months ago

    Like there wasn't a life stage where we put everything that fit in our grubby little hands in our mouths, just like for the experience of it.

    Did Sad_detective_toddler actually think various rocks and dirt were food? No. Did he want to know what granite tastes like though? You fucking bet

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  • [โ€“] 19 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)
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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Who hasn't licked a football? Or a dead spider?

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago

    That's your brain not your tongue. This also works for your hands. Are you on drugs?

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago

    "You dare to use my own sorcery against me?!"

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago

    I feel the same way about lead paint.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago

    now look at my balls.

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  • [โ€“] -5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Downvoted because racist wizard template. Meme would be better with a better template.

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    They named the asian girl "cho chang" and the black girl gets mocked for being against slavery

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 child)

    Basically everything about the house elves and the culturally norms around them is extremely problematic. No debate there.

    But A) giving an Asian girl an anglicized Asian-ish name is not in itself racist. Chang is a common Chinese surname. Cho seems to be a fabrication and only vaguely Chinese sounding. She definitely could have picked a real name, but calling that racist seems like a stretch.

    B) You're calling Hermione "the black girl", affirming a hard finality to her race that very notably was stated by Rowling to be open to interpretation. And of the many films, games, artwork, etc. depicting her, she's depicted as white in the vast majority of cases. It is fine if you interpret the character as black, casting a black actress, etc., but it is silly to treat that as an objective filter when convenient just for criticisms sake.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago*

    I disagree, if Rowling wants Hermione's ethnicity to be open to interpretation, I'm gonna interpret it how I want. She wants the benefits of virtue signalling a diverse cast, without being willing to risk actually writing diversity into her characters. That's why the main characters are all straight white neurotypical English people. That's why Dumbledore's gayness was hidden in subtext. Rowling wanted to hedge her bets and then claim she was an ally all along. But if she's gonna try to get the best of both worlds, well... I'm fed up enough with her bigotry that I'm gonna give her the worst of both worlds.

    Also, Kingsley Shacklebolt? Might as well have called him MLK McSlavery. She is racist against black people too.

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