What’s a polite way to tell someone, “I’m not discussing this with you because your entire understanding of the subject is built on so many interconnected misconceptions that correcting them would require uninstalling your current worldview and starting the tutorial from birth”?
longing for the day people understand that Paul Atreides is supposed to be white because he's a critique of the white savior trope
the whole point of Dune is to warn against charismatic imperialists who manipulate Indigenous peoples to consolidate their own power
If you add our employees, warehouse workers, and all their families, Eternal directly supports the livelihoods of well over 1% Indians 💁♂️.. getting this to 5% by 2030 would be damn cool.
americans being so obsessed with race as a construct is super funny because when you interact with any of them outside of the US it's clear they're really first and foremost americans
Therapist gave me a long list of coping techniques and I have taken my favourites / ones that work for me, compiled them, and plan to print it out into a little book I can keep on hand!
Frank Herbert wrote Dune in 1965 while on Colombia’s finest “spice” and his descriptions of Islamic mythology was remarkably accurate, including perfectly translated verses from the Quran. Enough with this nonsense, Rowling is a lazy hack.
you know, “Cho Chang” etc gets a lot easier to understand when you remember Rowling was writing in the NINETIES in SCOTLAND. There was no internet to look this kind of thing up and no Koreans or Chinese to personally ask. People really do not remember pre-internet life
At a certain point, if not already, the average person has to admit this is hysteria. None of this stuff helps Palestinians and it’s all about westerners feeling morally superior to each other