@FrenlyOfficer My wife & I recently made the difficult choice to terminate our 39yo neighbor because he was Haitian. We actually did make the choice lightly (we were drunk), but it's important that we preserve the right for couples to make these difficult, intensely personal decisions.
To me, this is a perfect artifact of “Peak Woke.” A totally senseless factoid, where the premise is a complete lie — and that lie is the actual payload.
On a factual level, “Avicenna” is just a transliteration of “Ibn Sina.” And besides, it’s not some insane jump, especially when Plato in Arabic is “Aflāṭūn,” and Hippocrates is “Buqrāṭ.” But none of this is the point.
The real content of this genre of post is asserting to the reader: “You grew up learning that Avicenna was a white European man, as part of a systematic effort to wipe nonwhite historical accomplishments out of the public record.”
This is an insane lie. Completely off-the-wall. But it goes unquestioned, and the reader is meant to absorb and be outraged by this act of ignorant racism.
(That he didn’t know who Avicenna was before reading it is irrelevant — and he will not learn who Avicenna was after, either)
But… he now knows in his heart that it’s *ackshually* written “Ibn Sīnā.” He feels not only intellectually, but *morally* superior for knowing this. His imagined miseducation has been corrected.
This lying-by-premise schtick is, to me, the central pillar and hallmark of “Wokeism.” All of education and media has orbited around this rhetorical device for… what, over a decade now? Everything from K-12 to network TV to graduate scholarship to national politics.
I can’t count how many times I had a teacher tell me that some historical figure “wasn’t the hero you were always taught he was.” Christopher Columbus, Andrew Jackson, Henry Ford, etc… meanwhile, that’s how all of these figures were being introduced for the first time!
I would really like to see if there’s a deal to be made for Cuban intelligence’s files on the American groups/activists it supported. Probably hundreds of treason/espionage cases to be filed.
@GodCloseMyEyes remembering that Night Owls bit about how white people think a place is haunted if anyone died there ever and how absurd that must sound to blacks
@PlisskenPatriot@afrym76 Trump could’ve been like a huge amount of boomers. He made his bank. His kids and grandkids are set for life and instead of sailing off into the sunset, he’s spending the rest of his life to try and save America. We owe Trump a lot.
Ohhhhh you made a vague statement about the quality of the writing cause you're like, above it and stuff, the game isn't smart enough for you to repeat its very clearly presented theme I got it yea for sure
I tried explaining to my parents that our taxes are being stolen so that blacks committing EBT fraud can fund Carnival Cruises by selling Nigga Jars out of illegal restaurants to blacks committing TANF fraud, and they looked at me like I was Hitler in the Downfall bunker scene.
This really is an allegory for the country at large. Democrats and the left just take decline and filth as a given, they can't even imagine that it can be reversed.
A lot of people calling Naoto trans just feels threatened by the message of her story
Because in a way, it criticizes trans ideology on a fundamental level with this one line by itself
Expect this line to get changed or erased in the remake btw