I wasn’t asking for you to tell me your opinion. I didn’t want it and now that I have it I dislike you even more than I did before, which is impressive because I already found you to be a revolting pile of garbage. Maybe if you were less horrible people wouldn’t be tediously annoying at you.
Alison Stevens
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When you think liberal white women don’t understand you, you’re wrong—many of them DO understand and are simply disagreeing with you! People telling you you’re wrong is not a sign that they don’t understand!
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Oh so you recognize it’s only that particular immigrant that caused the problem for you, not immigrants in general! Just like if it had been a citizen it wouldn’t mean that all citizens are terrible! Almost like immigration status doesn’t matter 🤔
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As opposed to all the drunk drivers with unnecessarily tall vehicles that ARE supposed to be there, they’re not a problem!
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from Albuquerque, English, meow.
but reading these replies I remembered there’s a bellringing composition I learned as the “barnyard quarter”: moo moo moo miowww (m - make, i - in, o - out, w - wrong). Too specific too explain it all in one skeet!
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If activity counts—I’m doing a PhD on change ringing, a specifically English tradition of ringing bells. It has spread to most places the British empire went but it can’t really be wielded as a colonizing tool like other musics. No community is perfect but I’ve found ringing to be v inclusive!
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…this makes me glad for the moment that I’m not doing any formal teaching. I’d distract myself thinking of ways I could make better software or at least web apps!
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…somewhere in my future work on how participatory musics can solve a lot of the world’s problems is stuff about accommodating mistakes and lowering pressure. I mean I already talk about bellringing being great for teaching people they can learn things!
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earlyish in the podcast Willy Willy Harry Stee there’s a discussion that touches on conservatives being into certain narratives of history and how it’s important not to give up and allow them to “have” history. I’ve really enjoyed the pod!
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THIS. Nuance isn’t valuable in itself, it’s valuable because reality is usually complicated and nuanced! The point is to be accurate, which means acknowledging relevant nuance AND recognizing when things are simple
And I even somewhat respect the motivation to be that way, but I wish people like that would acknowledge to themselves that excess charity can also be an intellectual error. Insisting on nuance & complexity when the reality is dumb & simple is an error. And it leads to more errors.
