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Cake day: February 8th, 2024

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  • OK, I won’t just claim something I may not have enough education in, so I’ll See what ppl have to say.

    Thesis: are socially liberal forms of government (for example the right to self exoression) not mutually exclusive to forms of government (like communism) where private property and individualism are not necessarily respected and forms of collectives are the focus?









  • I grew up in a rural environment in the 90s and early 2000s where it was perfectly normal to use “gay” with a negative connotation. The kind of environment where homosexuality was weird and every guy 13+ had to constantly prove he wasn’t gay or get angry getting called so.

    I was fortunate enough to move away from there and meet new people and ideas.

    I remember one turning point specifically. I was chatting with some people and used “gay” to describe some product I didn’t like, without thinking about it all, no ill intent. Later one of the guys took me aside and asked me if I realised I said that while a gay friend was standing right by. It couldn’t give a good answer in that moment but it gave me something to think about and I apologized later. He took it like a champ and I’m much more conscious about language since.