But no Mushu :/ 11 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Yes, I know Mulan is Asian. In my experience, only people who look like me (white) are whining endlessly. Endlessly and irritatingly. Just don’t. I’m not a good advocate for all this; many other people have said it better. But come on? Just shut up? Please?
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But no Mushu :/ 11 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
“Diversity” is the default, not the outlier. They didn’t create worlds just for them. The world you grew up in was the created thing. I don’t blame you; I grew up the same. But you got to get past this notion that the stage belongs to your color. It never did. It doesn’t now. It’s a vicious and dreadful lie. It causes people to think their opinion holds an unequal weight and their voice and perspective should be given pride of place. That’s all wrong. It’s a product of your raising (mine too) but it’s wrong. Don’t hide in semantics. Acknowledge the past and let this focus on your color go.
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But no Mushu :/ 11 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
I am struggling so hard to think of anything more stupid than being upset about remake casting. Being upset about no 1% whipping cream at Starbucks, maybe? Well, that directly affects something you came in to buy so not quiiiiiite as stupid. Coming to blows over the exact composition of a neighboring galaxy? Feeling like the grass should be a different shade of green at a neighborhood park? I dunno. There just HAS to be something more self-involvedly asinine, but I can’t think of it.
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Us white people after finding out yet another white character has been blackwashed 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
People complaining because Ariel “is” white, that’s the truth. So there’s a focus on truth as the basis, yeah? Why doesn’t that apply to history which is full of such wrong attributions and erasure of real people? See, it’s because it’s not about truth. It’s about whiteness. Which, as a white person, I find super irritating. You have the whole internet and free libraries. Learn something so you have some sort of context for how much of a nonissue this is. Then shush
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Us white people after finding out yet another white character has been blackwashed 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Ugh, until the people whining about not keeping to a character’s “true self” can give a 20 minute monologue on appropriation, dismissal and outright lying throughout the US history, all I hear is blah-blah-blah. I was raised in the US, but some things just don’t add up. I figured out just a little bit. I’m not patient with people who won’t even try, except to try to maintain a status quo that never was.
Theiyr're so stupid 10 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
There - a location (think about ‘here’, which is spelled similarly. ‘There’ is not ‘here’, as in the phrase “here and there”)
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself
They’re - They are. It’s a contraction (two words pushed together, like I’m [I am]. It’s got the apostrophe in the middle to remind you to check if it could be written as two words instead).
Their - possessive third person (their house, their car, their terrible dancing skills). There’s not a handy way to remember ‘their’. You just gotta memorize it. (Uhm, accidental usage of there’s: notice you can pull it apart because of the apostrophe. ‘There’s’ is right because it can be written as ‘there is’. ‘Theirs’ would be wrong because no apostrophe. ‘They’re is wrong because when you pull it apart to ‘they are’, the sentence doesn’t work).
On the plus side, ‘they’re’ doesn’t come up much in writing. You can skip it forever, just use ‘they are’. Then you only need to remember there/their and there’s/theirs. Your post is excellent; don’t be so hard on yourself
Expensive parade 4 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Oh, and it’s personally irritating to me for other reasons that he wants to fuss and celebrate the military on the patriotic holiday, instead of the two military-centric holidays already on the calendar. Those holidays are already set up for appreciation and speeches and fanfare for our troops. (Don’t get me wrong; huzzah military with all respect 365.25 days a year.)
Don’t even try to say this is all troop appreciation. Wrapping yourself in the flag (or the cross) and claim righteousness from inside its depths is a strategy any child could use - and see through.
Naw. It’s just my petty take that the contrast he faces on the two military-focused holidays make it seem like a lot more fun to have bombast and pomp on a day that doesn’t center on sacrifice and service.
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Don’t even try to say this is all troop appreciation. Wrapping yourself in the flag (or the cross) and claim righteousness from inside its depths is a strategy any child could use - and see through.
Naw. It’s just my petty take that the contrast he faces on the two military-focused holidays make it seem like a lot more fun to have bombast and pomp on a day that doesn’t center on sacrifice and service.
Expensive parade 4 comments
debbidownr
· 5 years ago
Trump’s a citizen hired to do a job. It’s okay if he wants to spend his own $ or have a GoFundMe page to put on little shows to keep his image up as a private citizen. But he isn’t doing that. The *opportunity cost* of Trump is something you either see or you don’t. But we can all agree he was hired to actually do some work, not waste the public purse.
It’s not a good ROI to anyone else for Trump to center narratives on himself instead of doing the job in a cost-effective way. (His permanent attitude of wastefulness and all-grandstanding-no-grinding is what makes these types of actions so annoying.) Are you 100% sure there were no celebrations *IN DC* he could have attended or spoken at, hmmm? Really SURE?
Equally annoying: False equivalencies and bald-face lies. It’s impossible you don’t see AT LEAST ONE of the dozen reasons why Pride and a publicly funded waste of resources aren't the same. Conflating the two, then, makes this comment an obvious lie in service of nothing useful.
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It’s not a good ROI to anyone else for Trump to center narratives on himself instead of doing the job in a cost-effective way. (His permanent attitude of wastefulness and all-grandstanding-no-grinding is what makes these types of actions so annoying.) Are you 100% sure there were no celebrations *IN DC* he could have attended or spoken at, hmmm? Really SURE?
Equally annoying: False equivalencies and bald-face lies. It’s impossible you don’t see AT LEAST ONE of the dozen reasons why Pride and a publicly funded waste of resources aren't the same. Conflating the two, then, makes this comment an obvious lie in service of nothing useful.
