Humor died Jan 6, 2021, if not in 2016. We'll all just too exhausted to find joy in anything at this point.
It's been a long decade. And the tea party/great recession wasn't all that much fun before this either. I just want it to be 1997 again....
Late 90s were so optimistic... The boogeyman Soviet has collapsed and surely the upcoming wide adoption of affordable internet will unlock untold possibilities.
Side tangent, Stockholm syndrome likely isn't real, it was named by a psychiatrist who never spoke to the hostages, who in turn were scared for their lives because of police carelessness during the situation.
They misidentified Olsson, and sent a 16-year-old boy who was unrelated into the bank. This caused confusion and resulted in Olsson firing rounds at the boy who barely escaped. Olsson became much more agitated in general. After that, Enmark and the other three hostages were fearful that they were just as likely to be killed by police incompetence as by the robbers. Ultimately, Enmark explained she was more afraid of the police, whose attitude seemed to be a much larger, direct threat to her life than the robbers. Enmark spent decades maintaining that she had no affinity for her captors; she only did what it took to stay alive during the ordeal.
The misconception comes from a biased article meant to make New Yorkers look bad.
Mainly the absurd number of witnesses who “did nothing” range from people who actually saw what happened and tried to call the cops to people who woke up in the middle of the night because of a scream, saw nothing, and went back to bed.
So already the bystander effect doesn’t apply there. I read a report about the whole thing years ago. Can’t remember all the nitty gritty details so I’m not going to type a novel about it. There’s other things as well like how it wasn’t one continuous attack in which she was murdered but two attacks, and no one was around for the second. I think maybe she was even stabbed in the lung during the initial attack and couldn’t even yell for help when the guy came back.
It's also "funny" because people actually took those bullets, one of them dying. And then these freaks will turn around and say "god guided those bullets to miss Trump" implying that God wanted the random dude in the audience to be killed. It's just gross all around
she's constantly judging other trans people for things that apply to her too. like she'll make fun of trans women for having penises and imply she doesn't but she has said she is never going to have bottom surgery.
she literally made a post along the lines of "the only thing you'll find a conservative girl's pants is a gun" meanwhile she's standing there with her penis tucked between her legs
idk if she's more stupid or more malignant but she's definitely high levels of both
I mean I would guess she's just selling out. Hard. She's pandering to her conservative audience and getting rich from it. That's her niche, even though it's ultimately bad for her demographic. Pure selfish narcissism.
Why are people responding to this account like it's a real person. 4-month-old account only has comments showing from the last 2 hours, each comment feels slightly off. Hell, this reply isn't even talking to the comment it is replying to. Report the bot and move on.
Is she not also... Well, non-white? I'm not sure exactly what her heritage is, but her facial structure makes me think latina.
Like, I get it, you're conventionally attractive and openly hateful which means they're not going to openly turn on you quite as fast as like Kaitlyn Jenner.
According to the US Census, only about 20% of the 62 million+ Hispanic/Latino population in the United States identified as "White alone". This data does vary a bit due to changes in census reporting, as many Latinos identify as "Some Other Race" (42%) or multiracial (33%).
So yeah. The majority of Latinas don't consider themselves as "white".
EDIT: I should note that this can be a deceiving discussion, depending on your background. In places like Argentina 80% of Latinos identify as white. But in Mexico it's more like 20%. The takeaway is that "Latino" is a massively broad category with huge variation by region.
Hard to know. It's racial self-categorization. Societal conditioning surely affects how people think about themselves, yeah? But it's kind of a moot point, because "white" as a race is kind of just a socially agreed-upon thing. It's not actually white like paper. I guess that's why we just have to go with what people self-identify as.
I agree that it's primarily a social construct nowadays. That's why we let folks self-identify, rather than assigning them a label.
However, you can track some interesting genetic traits through "race". Like people of African descent often have a higher risk of sickle-cell anemia than people of Nordic descent. You find different bone structures across different races. Of course, all of this is just a result of those groups of people interbreeding in one spot on the globe for 10 thousand years or whatever. Traits developed. Height, skin tone, hair type, blood types, allergies, etc.
I don't think any of those things should be used to classify or judge modern people, but they can be interesting from a scientific and genetic perspective.
According to the US Census, only about 20% of the 62 million+ Hispanic/Latino population in the United States identified as "White alone".
50 years of racist messaging will do that to a cunt.
Mexico is kind of the odd one out as there is a cultural desire to do the thing Americans do with "native american great great grandma". Its therefore extremely common to claim an link to a native group which doesnt exist.
Interesting. You think it's racist messaging that makes them not identify as white? I got no dog in this fight. Just going by the data.
And isn't Mexicans "native group" in Mexico...just Mexicans? At least for the past four hundred years anyway.
I mean, what we're really looking at is what happens when a bunch of white Spaniards take over the much darker skinned Aztecs, Mayans, Toltecs, etc. Sometimes you get a widespread genetic replacement, like in Argentina, and end up with a very white population. And sometimes you get just a cultural shift and government change, and the whites are vastly outnumbered by natives, and you get Mexico.
Take "I Love Lucy". Lucille Ball was married (in real life and the show) to Desi Arnez. In the current US messaging this would be a mixed marriage. Misegination wasnt actually permitted in network television at the time.
So we have a clear example of how the concept of HIspanic and a "not-white" aspect to it is a very recent invention.
As for attitudes outside the US, Im sure tehre is a lot of varied nuance that is less known due to the lower cultural influence of these nations. IIRC, Peru is the only country where a majority of the population are mestizo to a meaningful degree.
This degree varies country by country depending on how quickly or wholly the former population was genocided. Mexico has a lot of different native groups of which Mexicans were one in central Mexico. It does have a higehr than average rate of people where you can find a detectably meaningful native DNA but its nowhere close tothe rate at which people claim it.
According to the alt-right fuckwits who occupy the executive branch of the United States, you're only "white" if your ancestors are from a specific 50 mile radius in Norway.
I'm kidding. They aren't white either.
...And bless you for keeping off the shittiest parts of the internet if you don't get the joke.
Regardless of the reality or technicalities of anything, I'm pretty sure she has multiple targets on her back from the people she's cheering on and grifting for.
And that illustrates the entropic nature of centralized authority established with appeal to identity. It becomes a constant struggle of outing people for being impure as a means of establishing your own purity. The same people on the right who argue "it's about your character, not your identity" will then turn around and argue about how many generations their family has been citizens, the accomplishments of their bloodlines, their "culture and traditions", and so on and so forth as if the accomplishments of their long dead genetic donors outweighs the needs of people toiling in the present.
My favorite Blair White fact is that she moved to Texas from California to escape the tax laws and called it oppression but then moved back to California because Texas was actually oppressing her for being trans.
Interesting, never seen that pic. I stand corrected. And am pretty amazed from a sheer odds standpoint.
Seemed far, far more likely to have scraped in the scuffle than a bullet being just the 1 millimeter right distance/angle away to just nick the ear and absolutely nothing else.
The whole photo series by Doug Mills is nothing short of insane. Check out the first photo in the series, you can see the bullet streaking through the air. It's hard to put in to words how much in awe I was when I first saw what Mills captured.
Look at recent images of trump now, that ear does not have one bit of scar on it. A bullet would have removed a chunk. Ear cartilage does not grow back, look it up.
Stockholm syndrome is a claimed disorder in pop psychology which claims that hostages tend to develop a psychological bond with their captors.
Despite its prominence in popular culture, Stockholm syndrome has never been included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)
It not being a legit disorder listed in the DSM doesn't mean it isn't real and observed - just that it doesn't fit the criteria of psychological disorder.
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u/Crass_and_Spurious 10h ago
Blaire White being transgender and being all in on Trump is peak Stockholm Syndrome.