The monkey brains eating was fake. I don’t remember seeing monkey testing on the ones I watched.
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But its also just a lie. My sister was a pediatric oncology nurse for over a decade at a major hospital in a city close to a large Amish population, and she treated countless Amish kids who had cancer.
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So go uninsured. Docs won’t refuse care
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That’s amazing. I have an enormous amount of respect for people in such jobs.
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Same, no idea how they do it. Just hearing her stories is hard enough. Definitely takes a special type of person.
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Re: the congressman who said “colored people” on the house floor and is getting admonished for it
It must have been recent, this recategorizing of “colored people” as a slur, because the last time I heard the term it wasn’t a slur, it was part of the NAACP
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It’s been offensive/disfavored for quite some time. I had a friend in high school object to me using that term as he pointed out that we were both colored, he just happened to be black while I was peach.
I think it’s probably become more common to object in recent years as there was more sensitivity to these issues.
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Still seems a bit odd to me:
Colored Person → bad
Person of Color → fine (?)
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Colored person is a slur because it’s so anachronistic and is a call back to the age where it was the polite way to refer to black people, whether that’s how it meant or not.
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Not your mom, for sure
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That distinction has become somewhat widespread:
Autistic person: bad
person with autism: preferred
I believe the linguistic logic is that the first is considered poor because it defines the person as if autism was their core trait (also more encouraging stereotyping). The second is preferred because it acknowledges their personhood rather than the autism as their sole defining feature (autism is just one aspect of their entire being).
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Yeah, I guess. However, I don’t think autistic person catches nearly as much heat as colored person. But maybe it just needs more time.
“Colored” or “colored people” was the most common distinguisher on signage and in legislation in the Jim Crow South.
It was never meant to be nice or respectful, only that it was a veneer over the n word.
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I’m aware of this all of this stuff and it’s just kind of weird how the rules work. For example, I’ve heard black people say the N-word, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a black person say ‘colored’ person. But on the flip side, I doubt the NAACP is ever going to change it’s name.
I have learned that for some things, there are things we don’t fully understand.
Why is ok for black people to use the N word and the NAACP to continue to use CP? I think it has to do with the history of those terms and the way there were weaponized by white people. Using the words themselves gives black people agency over the words.
But can I truly know? I have never experienced anything other than the mildest of labels (eg “nerd”).
No I cannot. I can however trust that those victimized by words are capable of saying what they need to not be victimized and that if I just don’t get it (or at least not fully) than that’s on me and I should just honor what is told to me.
Not understanding is ok. Thinking that not understanding justifies not validating the sentiment is not ok.
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Florida man. Qualifies for tt by referencing Trump.
Short video tweet (language/violence):
https://twitter.com/NashIsHereForIt/status/1680599600250466304?s=20
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It’s ok for black people to use the N word because it’s them taking ownership of the word, and thus diminishing its power when used by their enemies.
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That makes sense, but I haven’t seen them do it with “colored people”, which seems odd. Totally fine, but odd.
I think it’s weird that you find that odd.
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