• AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Transgender day of visibility has been March 31st for years, Biden didn’t co-opt Easter for trans people (not that I would care if he did).

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    So, uh, she’s a Christian and doesn’t know Easter comes on different dates every year? And that the 31st comes on a different day of the week every year?

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    I don’t grasp why anyone thinks they have to choose like … how does the existence of one holiday mean erasing another, it doesn’t

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      I worked with a trashy white woman who was mad that we had pride stuff up for June and Juneteenth stuff up on the 19th because of Father’s day (what?). So the whole crew decided to troll by having fake conversations in her presence about how father’s day should only be celebrated by gay black fathers. We were all happy when at he was every eventually fired.

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        Oof I had a counselor once who went off unprompted about how there’s a MLK Day but no White Person Day, among other manifestations of bigotry I’ve encountered in my community

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          Even if they had a day (which they do, it’s the various holidays for different European cultures) they’d still complain. Like how the only time people mention International Men’s Day is when they say why don’t we have one during International Women’s Day in February. But not in June, which is when International Men’s Day actually happens.

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            Damn, those search spikes are like clockwork. Could we harness cyclical outrage to generate power, like the tides?

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            The equivalent of MLK Day is Presidents’ Day. I’m not even sure what you mean by European holidays, Halloween? I would not consider Christian holidays like Easter or Christmas to be white holidays and can’t think of anything else that qualifies as “European”

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          Like a child complaining there’s no children’s day…

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      No, you’re only allowed to have 365 holidays! Maybe an extra one for February 29th, but that one’s already taken anyway.

      The idea of a holiday is entirely arbitrary and the meaning and value is entirely subjective for any given holiday. Getting upset because your made up religious holiday happened to coincide with some other designated day is just irrational.

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      She ran for governor of California. As a Republican. She doesn’t go to GOP conferences because she might get eaten by the leopards. The political and religious posturing is all a grift, which in a way makes her a perfect Republican, but they can’t really claim her, for the same reason.

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      Because she’s only useful to them as a prop? They don’t want to see or hear her… ew …but its useful to have a trans person spout your anti-trans talking points. Reminds me of that Trump rally where he pointed out the like 1 POC there like “look at MY African American”

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      because she tried to run for governor of california as a republican and found out that republicans only like her to use her to attack marginalized people

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      iirc it’s one of the first things elon changed where it used to say which client you were posting from because elon got tired of people ragging on him for attacking apple while posting from an iphone

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      It’s like people from parallel universes are on the internet. They must call their version of Earth something else where they’re from. =p

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    Damn. Was the second tweet posted this year? It looks like it, but ya never know with screenshots