In authoritarian China, laws are upheld by roaming executioners with a license to kill not only suspects, but bystanders as well

Ugh yeah I HATE all these generic fluffy indie games on the website itch.io!!! There are sooo many of them that I would love a list of them ~~to play~~ to ban! Please comment down below the worst offenders (especially if they're free)

As a kid I didn't even know where my friends lived. They materialized in the morning at school and then vanished afterwards. I wasn't allowed alone outside until I was a teenager but by then, anywhere worth going was miles away and I didn't have a car so...

Hearing the way Americans talk about Lincoln, you'd think they've got him confused with John Brown or Lenin.

Tbh you can repost the image on a community here to make the opposite point. I actually interpreted it that way before I realized where it was posted

There are also videos of people randomly driving across rural America and the conditions people live under are eye-opening. Crumbling roads, crumbling houses, crumbling businesses, and everything's miles away with a sole Dollar General as the town's grocer.

I was unequivocally taught that it happened, white colonists were responsible, and that it was genocide. It came up a few times over the years in age-appropriate lessons (they don't go into detail when teaching third graders ofc) and every time the narrative was about the same.

HOWEVER our classes never dwelled on it much. It was taught with as much gravitas as any other random lesson, i.e. I was bombarded with a litany of names and dates to memorize for a standardized test which I promptly forgot in order to prepare for the next one, and the next one, and the next one...

My classes didn't distinguish between the indigenous peoples and I never learned about the native tribes that belong to my area. My teachers taught only what colonizers did to them, not who they were and are. And crucially, I was taught that this was all history and not that it is an ongoing genocide. And that the colonizers of the past are, somehow, disconnected from our government of the present.

Also we never made a connection between the Nazis and the colonists, or talked about class and capitalism at all, really.

One thing that often gets uncritically accepted is that school sports are about competition. Remember: these are children we're talking about here. Kids play sports for community, to have fun and be part of a team.

All this fearmongering about potential advantages and statistical differences in anatomy is missing the forest for the trees. These laws are about discriminating against trans people, not about athletic fairness.

Also yeah boy/girl segregation in sports isn't scientific and largely exists for misogyny reasons (either to give women a space to compete away from men or to remove women from competition because men got butthurt about losing to them)

Adding onto what WhatWouldKarlDo said, the situation in China is what it is because of the aftermath of a civil war. After China was colonized by the West + Japan for a hundred years, the Chinese people overthrew them all along with the Qing dynasty. But there was fighting over who should replace them: the Kuomintang or the Communist Party of China. The CPC eventually won, but the KMT refused defeat and retreated to Taiwan, where they still claim to be the legitimate government of all of China and have never signed any peace treaties to end the war (it's technically still ongoing).

To make another USA analogy, it'd be as if the Confederates fled to Puerto Rico after the American civil war and never gave up hope for ruling over the whole country.

(ofc this is a simplification; there are other parties besides these two and a lot more happened that I didn't mention like how the KMT ruled over China for a little while. This is just the gist of it)

fr fr?? is it too late to defed

Yeah so much western propaganda is essentially just accusing this or that country of being like the USA. I genuinely don't understand why it's so effective

Racial categories have always been jank in the US for Latin people. Forms have a separate question on whether or not you're Hispanic. But because of that, "Latin" is never included as an option for race so we have to fill in something stupid.

Look at questions 8 and 9 here. I'm the tan kind of Mexican American, so I have to answer question 8 with Yes, Chicano and question 9 with...??? Other? I'm a Hispanic Other. Makes sense.