"Liberals in my day protected art and made fun of those that said it had satanic messaging when you play it backwards or shit like that. That's what you guys are now, the epitome of what you used to hate."

Yup.

Liberals used to be against racism, and bullying and sexism, and treating others badly for how they were born. Now it's quite the opposite.

In 1992, Sinead O'Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on live television, in protest of the rampant child sexual abuse the Catholic Church was actively covering up.

Ten days later, she was scheduled to perform at Madison Square Gardens, as part of a celebration of Bob Dylan. As soon as she got to the microphone, the audience began loudly booing her, seemingly in unison.

The organizers tasked Kris Kristofferson with removing O'Connor from the stage. He instead went out and put his arm around her and checked in on her and stayed until she'd steadied herself and was ready to perform. When she came off stage, he wrapped her in a bear hug.

"Sinead had just recently on Saturday Night Live torn up a picture of the Pope, in a gesture that I thought was very misunderstood. And she came out and got booed. They told me to go get her off the stage and I said 'I'm not about to do that'

I went out and I said 'Don't let the bastards get you down'. She said 'I'm not down' and she sang. It was very courageous. It just seemed wrong to me, booing that little girl out there. But she's always had courage."

Y'all will praise this woman and then boo other people who speak unpopular truths.

Let it be clear that in the time of rampant social media-based cancel culture and selective hypocritical outrage, many if not most of you would absolutely be one of the people booing this woman if you were around back then.

Silencing someone who speaks negatively about a group you care about? An inconvenient truth about bad things your favorite group does being ignored and excused? Mocking them and trying to keep them from having a platform to speak on?

You're not so different.

Edit: someone brought up The Sound of Freedom movie and...yeah.

When a physicist falls in love :)

Richard Feynman's love letter to his deceased wife, 1946.

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

I couldn't last that many strokes let me tell you that

the fuck is a smart board?

ALT

— Van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

I was reading something about Whitestown, Indiana and my eyes nearly popped out of my head thinking it was one of THOSE comically racist towns. Nice to know, at least the name, wasn’t that.

Racisttown, named after the abolitionist Stopbeing Racist,

That's nothing. Check THIS shit out

WHAT THE HELL

George Washington Hitler and his son Dr. Gay Hitler,

i fucking hate when people attribute a lot of the good stuff about indigenous culture to some inexorable Race Quality.

as if having a sustainable, beneficial, harmonious relationship to the land is due to some sort of Magic Race Genes. I mean it's a continuation of the idea that indigenous people couldn't have possibly done all this cultural stuff themselves so it must be hardwired into their biology.

its literally just racism and essentialism.

it's so gross and yet i keep seeing people make this mistake

yes actually this also goes for people who are like "anyone who isn't already an Indigenous Race is fundamentally ontologically incapable of understanding indigenous perspectives or having any sort of non-evil relationship with land."

that's literally just the "native people are strange and alien and incomprehensible and *primitive* and of a fundamentally different Kind Of Human than us civilized people" argument but then you say "and indigenous people are good". like. that's still race realism bro.

Get this: if believing that white people are somehow inherently superior at some or all things based on merely being born white is bad and white supremacy, then maybe saying this same thing but for other races isnt as progressive as some might think.