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    11 months ago

    I find it pretty funny seeing people talk about how Japan is not as advanced as people think. Meanwhile my home state the majority of people don’t have Internet. I’ve been getting pretty convinced that most places use fax machines due to how few places have Internet. Anyplace that has any amount of beurocracy uses paper files. There are a considerable amount of places were cell signals simply don’t work. The only way reason I know of public transport busses is because of movies. VHS player are common place for house holds. Many work vehicles were made in the 60s and we still use buckets to collect sap when sugaring. Card readers are rare so some gas stations require you to pay with cash. All around the only advanced tech things Vermont has to offer are our winter cars and the f13s that occasionally blow peoples ear drums out.

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      11 months ago

      Okay but Vermont is basically a white people nature preserve, isn’t it?

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          11 months ago

          Congratulations! You have discovered that changing the words in a sentence changes its meaning.

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            11 months ago

            Point is it would not be appropriate to make a joke of that nature with another race/place combo, therefore the joke is inherently racist

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              Yeahhh but when the race you’re making fun of isn’t threatened, doesn’t face any meaningful discrimination, and pretty much runs the world, I think it’s safe to make fun of us.

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                11 months ago

                Either race-tinged observational jokes can be funny if good spirited (I subscribe to this view) or they should be considered poor taste 100% of the time. (That’s fine too)

                But this self-flogging “lol but it’s ok to be racist against people that look like me because the stereotype is some bad people also look like me, so I totally deserve it based on my ancestry, right guys?” Schtick isn’t good for anybody.

                (Unless you literally don’t face any injustice on your way to running the world, then I totally misunderstood lol.)

                But the idea that you should denigrate yourself to appease others’ misguided hatred of your racial “impurity” is…the exact concept we want to eradicate isn’t it?

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                    11 months ago

                    ez block, racism in any direction is wrong, even if casual, convenient, or seeming to you without harm.

                    You absolutely meant to offend me, using a race based remark, with that one.

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              As a white person, I am authorising and allowing this joke to be made, and I am retracting and removing any racism labels associated or attached to it.

              You’re welcome!

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                11 months ago

                So one person of another race could “clear” a joke against their race? Obviously not.

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                    11 months ago

                    I get no one address with me here but I stand by it:

                    If you can’t make the joke about another race, you shouldn’t make it about any race.

                    Imagine suggesting a place is a “black nature preserve”. 100% inappropriate, therefore the joke is inherently racist

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              I think you need to learn the difference between punching up and punching down.

              When white people become oppressed and stop being in control of practically everything in the U.S., you will have a point.

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          11 months ago

          “the Philippines is a nature preserve for Filipino people” fucking I wish, leave us alone colonizers

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      Most people don’t have home Internet because almost everyone has it on their phone. Plenty of people don’t own a computer anymore unless it’s for work.

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      Both things can be true, but Vermont doesn’t have a giant “We’re a high-tech place!” image harped upon constantly that can feel like false advertising.