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I’m sorry for your loss. My grandpa, great-aunt, and most recently my great-uncle died of ALS. It’s a truly horrific disease, but I am glad to know that this will help future victims of ALS

*waaaw waaw*

By posting on a funny site, the implicit message is that we’re supposed to laugh at it and i’m saying it’s not funny to laugh at the violation of sacred principles

For example, a slutty Halloween costume of the Native American headdress is disrespectful. It’s violating something sacred to that people group. However, you’re offending by wearing the headdress, not because it’s slutty. The fundamental religious principle of modesty isn’t being violated by dressing up as that. If this is a harem costume it stems from our modern notions of harems that came from European visitors who weren’t allowed into said harems, because they were girls and male relatives only, and created all these notions of what harems should be. European art depicting the orient fueled these modern conceptions of harems being sexy slave women with little clothes, which this costume is perpetuating IF it is supposed to be a woman from a harem. I don’t know enough about harem principles to determine whether or not it is offensive. I do know enough about Islam to say “not cool, kinda offensive” even if I’m not Muslim, because the same principles of modesty are in my religion