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- grafician-1
Shark advocates call for rebranding violent attacks as ‘interactions’
"Marine advocates in Australia are urging the public to stop using "attack" in reference to sharks, saying that media has warped the reputation of the majestic predatory fish into that of a deliberate killer.
Getty Images/iStockphoto"- Proposal to rebrand stepping on Lego to "attempted manslaughter"grafician
- And let's replace swimming with trespassing: "the interaction occurred while the swimmer was trespassing in the shark's natural habitat".zarkonite
- Shark Week is a fear mongering fake doc-o-series. Just like everything else on the Discovery Channel its a fraud.utopian
- I see sharks in the water while im surfing maybe twice a year, they probably see me twice a month or moreGuyFawkes
- i see why they're doing it... more people die from doing selfies a year than killed by sharks. but we're not banning selfies yet.pango
- If you can survive Australia, you can survive anythinggrafician
- LOL Guy. That is a true story!lemmy_k
- "Fish"? Sharks are fishes?jagara
- Okay, they apparently are: https://en.wikipedia…jagara
- drgs3
https://nypost.com/2021/06/23/ar…
"Physicists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and SUNY Stony Brook recently concluded that two black holes maintained their total surface area after merging. While this research was a welcome confirmation of the theory of general relativity, it failed to address a crucial matter: What were its racial implications?"What are the racial implications of two merging black holes, dear reader? Cornell University has introduced an astronomy course to find out:
https://classes.cornell.edu/brow…Same university offers segregated rock climbing classes for people of color:
https://scl.cornell.edu/coe/pe-c…Discuss
- LOL super woke!renderedred
- i would totally do that course, sounds incredible. thesis on Sun Ra and afrofuturism?kingsteven
- universities are failing commercial entities with remits for racial equality that'll teach anything that catches studentskingsteven
- This fucking sucks (just like black holes)babydick
- woke science. the course includes works by musician outkast. post in america is fucked threadhotroddy
- instead of teaching science.. they teach the racial implications of science. we are so fucked.hotroddy
- While white and Asian kids are allowed to learn science, black kids are only allowed to learn about why white people don’t like them._niko
- How fucking stupid!MondoMorphic
- Well, ok, to be fair the course has nothing to do with the merging and one co-prof is from Comp Litnb
- I love how you don’t see the irony in yourself getting angry about this.nb
- As a climber, I am not against the POC climbing course. Also, who cares about these courses? does it really affect you?dorf
- when society is funding the disenfranchized with worthless degrees that do no good in the real world. the only consequence is more resentment and division.hotroddy
- public and private scholarships should go towards math and science. that will advance a population from poverty. not comparative lit.hotroddy
- A degree only means that you completed study/ are not a complete fuck up. I have bsc and msc in arts, neither relate to my vocation and starting another soonkingsteven
- which is studying how to improve digital literacy of medical students to ensure they can actually do the jobs they're being educated forkingsteven
- most professional roles that require accredited degrees have a totally different skill set than several years ago. It's often how well you can use software tbhkingsteven
- That is what is devaluing qualifications ATM. You could the most BS degree and be more capable than someone qualifiedkingsteven
- With music by Sun Ra, sweet! Sign me upOP31
- https://media3.giphy…fadein11
- Everyone is ignoring the fact that this course does teach the sciences still. Jesus.monospaced
- ^ you need to ignore a lot more to contribute degrees in afro-futurism to the downfall of societykingsteven
- _niko1
This dude makes a critically acclaimed film/musical based on his own Tony award winning musical based on his experience growing up as a Puerto Rican in Washington heights and instead of celebrating this achievement the woke-verse wants him to bend the knee for having not enough diversity in afro-latino skin shades.
https://www.bbc.com/news/enterta…
Am I missing something? the vids I've seen and the pic above shows a good mix, but even if it wasn't the case, this is his personal story, if most of his friends were light-skinned so what?
- He has already sought absolution from the Wokus Dei. I’m sure they’ll let him back into the OrderGnash
- drgs0
A bit undeserved me thinks but it was easy to predict:
Jodie Turner-Smith is a black actress who plays 16th century queen of England. The show's ratings:
- drgs1
The orthogonally opposite of racism -- is also racism
https://www.the-sun.com/news/302…
https://bariweiss.substack.com/p…
https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/ny…
https://www.newsweek.com/aruna-k…
https://www.tiktok.com/@arunakhi…"This is the cost of talking to white people at all. The cost of your own life, as they suck you dry. There are no good apples out there. White people make my blood boil. (Time stamp: 6:45)
I had fantasies of unloading a revolver into the head of any white person that got in my way, burying their body, and wiping my bloody hands as I walked away relatively guiltless with a bounce in my step. Like I did the world a fucking favor. (Time stamp: 7:17)
White people are out of their minds and they have been for a long time. (Time stamp: 17:06)
We are now in a psychological predicament, because white people feel that we are bullying them when we bring up race. They feel that we should be thanking them for all that they have done for us. They are confused, and so are we. We keep forgetting that directly talking about race is a waste of our breath. We are asking a demented, violent predator who thinks that they are a saint or a superhero, to accept responsibility. It ain’t gonna happen. They have five holes in their brain. It’s like banging your head against a brick wall. It’s just like sort of not a good idea. (Time stamp 17:13)
We need to remember that directly talking about race to white people is useless, because they are at the wrong level of conversation. Addressing racism assumes that white people can see and process what we are talking about. They can’t. That’s why they sound demented. They don’t even know they have a mask on. White people think it’s their actual face. We need to get to know the mask. (Time stamp 17:54)"
In WWIII your skin color will be your uniform.
Discuss
- drgs4
Spanish anti-racism post stamp campaign
Should have randomized the prices somehow
https://www.insider.com/spanish-…
- Oh Lord no, hahaha
fucking idiots.Nairn - give with one hand, take with the other.shapesalad
- Trouble is, there's no actual way to resolve the pricing on this, as every choice would come with some wave of condemnation.
It's a poor idea from the off.Nairn - It’s ok only old people use stamps_niko
- Pure poetryGnash
- This campaign sucks, the concept does not convey any messagei_was
- It'll be remember as four Pantonei_was
- awful. no one is actually "black" blacksarahfailin
- The pricing is intentional. Still a stupid idea.palimpsest
- Ha, really? I can see the logic in that, but moreso, I can moreso see the logic in not doing that...Nairn
- crushed blacksutopian
- the way you fight racism, is more racism.cherub
- that's the message.cherub
- wow. fuck everything about this. the obsession with skin colour is bizarre.inteliboy
- Oh Lord no, hahaha
- Nairn1
- hmm... this video is blocked in the states... give us a synopsis if you'd be so kindPonyBoy
- Ah, soz. It's just a slightly painful (as intended) skit mocking a hasbeen (ne'erwas) celebrity's feckless attempts at being inclusive.Nairn
- "3 days at the Earls Court Boat Show" lolfadein11
- These might be peak PartridgeFax_Benson
- Gnash1
The Russian version of previous post
- Every army in the world is making fun of that US recruiting video now. Even Canadians.pr2
- omg! even candians!pango
- “What will the canadians think” should be our new military policyscarabin
- ugggh new keyboard... I need to type cleaner.pango
- gnash trying to side with pr2, but then got dissed by pr2.pango
- Pango brings out the deep thinking !Gnash
- You can always count on me (⌐■-■)pango
- pango, so many years alive on Earth and you still don't understand even most trivial joke?pr2
- Omg! you made a joke and it must be funny.
And I can't believe you didn't get I was laughing with you.pango - And he still doesn’t get it, pr2Gnash
- Agreed. I don't think pr2 gets it.pango
- pr2-4
I though it's some satirical joke so i had to look it up to confirm that it's real. Yes, childish colorful drawings with some childish little girl voice to recruit future "warriors":
Just as i read Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society" chapter about WWII and how the strongest military in Europe (French) folded to Hitler's Germany in just a few weeks because their soldiers were raised on come beginning-of-century woke pacifism.
- gotta get them when they're young. they have used video games for recruitment. doesn't seem far off.pango
- also as recruitment standards keep going up, the eligible young males' pool are getting smaller and smaller. hence the female recruitment.pango
- as for the french, you need to consider they were at many wars. it costs the society a lot of money and stress on the general public. anyone would grow tired ofpango
- wars eventually.pango
- why do you think every US president election every candidate were promising to pull out of X war.pango
- the point is that wars are fought and won not only with weapons but ALSO a spirit. The French have lost that fighting spirit during WWII (despite weapons).pr2
- The same loss of fighting spirit is visible here where to attract the future "warriors" you use childish images, VO and symbols.pr2
- Gotta get them interested when they're young. Otherwise college might be a better I deal when they get older.pango
- What's this spirit you're talking about?pango
- Idea*pango
- Good time to stop funding the military.Gnash
- good idea but hard. any us senate who says that, will stop receiving campaign funding from weapon manufactures.pango
- the spirit that drives us to sacrifice - something so worthy of the cause, that we risk putting our lives on the line.pr2
- here in this cartoon this concept is purposefully camouflaged by childish colors and VO.pr2
- I question if whoever signs up based on this version of "reality" will ever be ready for the sort of sacrifice army historically calls for.pr2
- first of all who do you think the target audience is? and I still don't get this 'spirit you're talking about. how would you visualize it if you are to pitch itpango
- Using cartoons for this is wildly innappropriate. What the fuckscarabin
- We can’t use cartoons to sell tobacco but we can use it to urge idiot kids to become murderers?scarabin
- Exactly. +Showing how she got dragged into politics when she was just a kid is a very bad idea.sted
- "Raised by 2 moms... who also wanted to fight for their country when they were my age but the army told them that lesbians are lesser people & can't be heroes"nb
- Her story is true. The voice is hers. It's showing how "anyone" can be in the military. And the military is allowed to recruit, after all. Not just to meatheadsmonospaced
- Cartoon is cool, but not really appropriate for this audience, I agree.monospaced
- By showing that "anyone" can be in the army, you implicitly discourage those who might have real interest in this profession.pr2
- Her voice doesn't sound like that to anyone around her in real life, just as yours doesn't sound the same when recorded.pr2
- To use this childish-sounding voice was some creepy choice.pr2
- her holding proverbial "peace" & "love" sign is the ultimate hypocrisy showing truly Machiavellian forces behind this cartoon.pr2
- I agree, pr2.MondoMorphic
- @pr2 u got that reaching out to young people was the goal here. which cannot be accomplished by bloodshed and the reality of war.sted
- That's her voice tho. Is she not good enough for the military for you?pango
- @pr2 ahaha yess that is the biggest contradiction in these two and half minutes of WTFsted
- there is a paralle between your complaints and Leni Riefenstahl's complaints on how real soldiers don't look like the ideal soldier you imagined.pango
- and to the rest of you who don't like military recruitment propaganda. i don't like em as well but i hope you hold G.I. Joe and the likes to the same criticism.pango
- they're all military propaganda aim at kids. it's fun to research which movie had their scripts approved by the military.pango
- lol pango why bring that shit into this argument? fucked up army starts when you have to lower required performance limits in order to show up diversitysted
- ah ic pr2 mentioned WW2 and hitler lol.
he could mention the good old Hungarian army in Europe, we did the same.sted - @pr2. "peace" & "love" sign. you're right that is pretty stupid. but considered who their target is. it's kinda called for. lolpango
- They came in wigs with swords on decorated horses, we just had soldiers hungry for blood with arrows from which there was no escape.sted
- "By showing that "anyone" can be in the army, you implicitly discourage those who might have real interest" hmmm a touch bit too much superiority complex?pango
- Target audience... lolGnash
- Young girls lolpango
- G.I. Joe style lolsted
- *GIGOsted
- https://www.academia…pango
- mort_-1
Do you think that white people using the lighter shade emojis in apps like Slack or WhatsApp instead of the default yellow ones is a bit off?
I totally get the representation of minorities in emoji sets and the use of them and am glad my black colleagues are represented.
But I cautiously stick to the default, being white. It just feels inappropriate to consciously choose a lighter skin tone.
I know it’s only an emoji. Nobody’s losing sleep over it. Just curious.
- yellow is a waysist term.teh
- I'm not a Pacman so I choose a closer shade to my own. Except when I think it's amusing to needlessly appropriate a darker shade than my own.Nairn
- Ultraviolet tends not to be well-represented in these things, so gingers gotta ginge.Nairn
- I don't find the white emoji, white enough for my likings. Certainly need to get some sun this yearIanbolton
- Yeah, needs Irish-British Blue in there too.
Scandies can have a look in, although they seem a bit healthier.Nairn - I guess I see deliberately choosing the white emoji as slightly aligned with the ‘white lives matter too’ mentality. But you clearly don’t so not condemning it.mort_
- I mean having different skin tone emojis is clearly about more than everyone getting their own skin tone.mort_
- Maybe if you're body positive albinodrgs
- Both sides of the skin tone scale are forbidden, darker emojis are also bad if you're whitedrgs
- Mort, do you identify as white?! I do get what you mean though. I feel like yellow is generic, but then I was aneamic when i was a kidIanbolton
- @Ian Yes I’m white.mort_
- mort_ - then surely the same can be said for any given type to choose their own? Why fret it? It's crueller to have all been forced with Yellow.Nairn
- Yeah I dunno. Yellow in the Simpsons represents white people. Maybe it’s not that neutral after all.mort_
- I'm still using simple :-) emojis...never mind these graphic ones.shapesalad
- too much work to change them for me.pango
- Huh, I've just realised - in the Simpsons, white people are yellow and oriental Asians are white. Having Googled, this is A Thing.Nairn
- Oops. 'Oriental' is not PC in the states.
'Soz'.Nairn - https://i.imgur.com/…Nairn
- pr20
Everyone who's scratching his/her head at this PC madness, MUST read Thomas Sowell's "Intellectuals and Society" - this provides historical context and countless examples of significant waves within society that blew up in some people's faces just as this craziness will. Because it goes deep into history, it will make you feel good to realize that this nonsense is nothing new. There were always huge groups of madmen willing to embrace loony ideas.
- it's an overcompensation for the human condition. we need a baseline approach to how people treat eachother, something a child can understand - and go from therSteveJobs
- a child understands already, everyone tries to teach that child how to live and that causes confusions throughout generations.uan
- As someone who has young kids and see other parents strange ways, I'm not sure there is such a thing as "baseline".pr2
- Things that appear immediately good, blow up in people's faces in "long run," and vice versa. I have countless first-hand accounts of that.pr2
- i'd classify baseline as things that lead to the mutual happiness of self and others. being selfless, considerate, honest, compassionate, etc. - all easy to do.SteveJobs
- it's what we know deep down to be right as it resonates with us. do your best and assume the best of others in spite of our imperfections. rinse, repeat.SteveJobs
- holy shit... Sowell's already 90 :(PonyBoy
- bainbridge2
Mental illness is a personality trait that should be celebrated now.
- bainbridge3
Overweight people are "body positive" now.
- SteveJobs-5
Lego unveils first LGBTQ set ahead of Pride Month
Lego fans can build castles, jungles and entire town centers with the right set of bricks. But from June, the company will launch a brand new product -- its first ever LGBTQ-themed set, named "Everyone Is Awesome."
The product comes with 11 figures, each with an assigned rainbow color.
https://www.cnn.com/style/articl…- Madness.palimpsest
- lol those look ridiculoussted
- I think those are pretty cool! It'd even cooler if they had cool mythological creature add-ons, like unicorn horns, wings, etc. I'm really not ...MondoMorphic
- ...kidding either. I think they could sell a shit ton of these to a lot of different people.MondoMorphic
- So, some solid flat color figures. No faces, hair color or clothing. Whatever. I don’t see kids wanting this. More of a woke douche thing.monospaced
- So gay!mort_
- https://i.imgur.com/…sted
- It's absolutely a woke douche thing, mono. lolMondoMorphic
- plz link to the onion article thxcherub
- wtf?!? not lego!renderedred
- https://m.youtube.co…Chimp
- why not, looks kinda kool.. the reps are losing their shit i guessneverscared
- Not going to lie, I thought this was fucking cool when I saw it in the papers this morning and resolved to buy one.Nairn
- lol mortGuyFawkes
- will be worth a lot in a few yearssandpipe
- Terrible idea. It implies that prior "normal" lego sets were heterosexual or cisgender which is untrue and STUPID.nb
- Corporations are really bad at equality, diversity and progressivism. They should stfu, they're not helping anythingnb
- I am 100% in support of LGBTQ2S+ people. But this is just a bad idea that doesn't teach equality at allnb
- Nairn is woke.monospaced
- Totally agree nb! lolMondoMorphic
- Presuming everyone has arms and legs. what about midgets, wheel chair uses, etc..shapesalad
- @nb yeah. 0 effort products. they are all butt naked goddammit.sted
- I'm with Nairn. I like this.Continuity
- the brown one has an afro, the black one has a weave, the yellow one has a bowl cut. just sayin'_niko
- Apple?utopian
- Although I appreciate getting black hair right, it was on the nose to choose black and brown for those characters.shellie
- As a black child I remember the black and brown options feeling dark, ugly, and unattractive. There's not an implied asian figure that's yellow.shellie
- technic lego circa late 80's was best time for lego. Built on the moto of toys for learning, not learning to kill. nowadays it's all so aggressive.shapesalad
- Why can't the POCs be colorful, too?shellie
- most kids are just going to see this as a colourful bunch bricks and figures. and get either creative making something or bored due to the lack of exotic piecesshapesalad
- yeah shellie, my point exactly, so dumb. The brown and black feel tacked on for some kind of racial inclusion, which has nothing to do with LGBTQ_niko
- ideally each character would come in each colour._niko
- they should have had a clear one for the non-conformiing meta-poly-neutral exclusionist.SteveJobs
- Of course the straights are complaining about how it affects them and lecturing how the LGBTQ community should treat this.face_melter
- Everyone is Awesome? Really? https://www.youtube.…
Beyond parody when you parody yourself I guess.NonEntity - One can support a community or cause and disagree with its approach to advocacy at the same time, no?SteveJobs
- Maybe targeting emotionally retarded 20s/30s demographic. Actual kids got no fucks to give like shapesalad saidNonEntity
- What will they think of next?
Selling advent calendars for Christmas?palimpsest - also who's this for? kids? here ya go johnny, i know you wanted that space set, timmy next door is getting for christmas but we need you to be more woke.SteveJobs
- So this isn't an onion article?cherub
- stop this planet I wanna get offcherub
- What a fucking piece of unicorn diarrhea. No faces? FUCK OFF, CUNTS. Fuck Lego.babydick
- Johnny was really looking forward to getting that Lego Bonsai Tree. His heart will be broken.palimpsest
- Also, Lego Bonsai trees are cultural appropriation.palimpsest
- As a dad tasked with making figures for battle, I am always trying to figure out how to make a faceless assassin... these are very great for that reason alone.wordssssss
- They have nor penis or vadgei_was
- when u achieve maxiumum wokeness, u don't need penis or vadge.cherub
- I like how you can decide the priority of the various colours. At the mo it's black out front and pink behind, but fuck if I'd not have my gingermensch up frontNairn
- Also, I'd take the black figs legs and bits.Nairn
- Give violet the ginger fig's trousers and just have her entire existence fretting about the incongruence of her being, irrespective of the hopes of inclusivity.Nairn
- I know they meant well, but actually, this is just some kind of perverse hell.
I'm buying three.Nairn - For the record - I've had a bit to drink since my initial earnest post earlier today and these last few. Also earnest.Nairn
- whoever said "Of course the straights r complaining" I'm blk+gay-ish supporting LGBTQ POCs I have a perspective on the bok+brwn figs. I don't love the executionshellie
- gay "ish" ?Khurram
- I think these look cool. Get off your high-horse shellie. You ain't the voice of minorities round here. "As a blk+gay+ish-ally let me say something bla bla bKhurram
- I don't believe corporation can be genuine about these things. Looks cool, cool collection. gonna make lots of money.pango
- black and brown are colours in the rainbow?autoflavour
- the B in LGBTQ stands for black and or brown.pango
- Duhpango
- A lot of you is not using the updated acronym, LGGBDTTTIQQAAPP. Bigots.jagara
- My apology :(pango
- Gay-ish? Fuck off, shellie.babydick
- What's wrong with gay-ish, captain judgy-pants?mort_
- Explain what gay-ish means, mort_babydick
- I'm cuck-ish, by the waybabydick
- swing the other way sometimes but not all the time?pango
- hi cuck-ishpango
- @babydick Not sure tbh. Maybe it's something you can't neatly categorize in your mind? Maybe sexuality is a spectrum? Maybe STFU?mort_
- Gay fish? ...Kanye?NonEntity
- Sucking dick from time to time ain't gay, it's just gay-ish. Because life is a South Park episode. Fuck off, mort.babydick
- Gayish is when you want to be gay, but don't want to be gay.
RIP Paul Mooneypalimpsest - this is a cool set. stop complaining about everything. you can do great combinations mix matching them all. why is this supposed to be wrong?ESKEMA
- it's fucking plastic toys, nothing else.ESKEMA
- there you go Shellie. straights are complaining.pango
- perspective != high horse. everyone is entitled to their opinionSteveJobs
- i hate wokeness and all that douchery but i really like this. probably not its raison d'etre, but the end result is fab.hans_glib
- @ESKEMA i never cared about the gender or sexual orientation of the lego figures, it was always what I wanted at the moment...sted
- This makes you care, discuss, argue and all that shit what Lego isn't about for me.sted
- No one's making you do anything sted. Relaxe your body.Khurram
- @Khurram To think about it this way, deal with such aspects. I wouldn't act on it.
Yeah my body is in the need for some relaxation :Dsted - Ya Sted. Relax and get your body ready!
https://i.kym-cdn.co…pango
- drgs0
Social fragmentation intensifies
- palimpsest1
Has political correctness gone too far?
https://vegoutmag.com/news/eleve…
Eleven Madison Park Is Reopening as an All-Vegan Restaurant
This June, NYC’s three-Michelin-starred restaurant—Eleven Madison Park (EMP)—will reopen with a new, 100% plant-based menu. Owner and chef, Daniel Humm, recently announced the relaunch is set for June 10.- lol at thinking vegan is political correctness...inteliboy
- It is when you give in to the capitalist machine that promotes this so called "sustainability" craze.palimpsest
- so the existing vegan restaurant upsets you? i don't like vegan as much as the next guy, but I'm not forced to eat there.pango
- its part of capitalism. there's a market for vegan, there will be vegan restaurants.pango
- what pango said. PC is usually social / political -- not environmental.inteliboy
- Thank you both for your feedback. I've revised my stance and now believe sustainability is something we should all strive for.palimpsest
- Vegans do not care if everyone reduces their meat consumption by 50% - you're only worthy if you are 100% vegan. You have to control your food intake thoroughlydrgs
- and in detail, according to vegan canons. Vegans want to be pure and socially superior, above anything else (animals/environment...drgs
- Well playedGnash
- i´am vegan and i don´t give a shit what everybody else eats.... u make your on luck.neverscared
- It's not political, though.monospaced
- Yet, I don't fault anyone for associating Republicans with being anti science, anti earth conservatism, anti climate change reform, and anti progress in generalmonospaced
- I shoot food for Germany's only star rated vegan restaurant. The chef is quite a cool guy, so is the whole place. https://www.sevenswa…SimonFFM
- I think that people getting their panties in a wad over veganism just screams of geezerism. lol at "sustainability craze".garbage
- What's next, groaning about "that climate change fad"?garbage
- @simon That's some amazing work, props.garbage
- Mono hit the nail on the head: "I don't fault anyone for associating Republicans with being anti science, anti earth conservatism, anti climate change reform"CyBrainX
- My job is done here.palimpsest
- I don't know that this is specifically political correctness but yes, PC has gone way too far.MondoMorphic
- some said pure vegan diet gives one vegan powers, such as telekinesis. however due to how powerful these powers can be, one must register with vegan police.pango
- the only thing i don't like about vegans is vegansGuyFawkes
- I don’t know a single vegan who would be mad at you for eating 50% less meat, drgsscarabin
- Ending meat consumption actually could be the difference between your kids getting to live in a decent world or not. It's the opposite of a trivial concern.yuekit
- @mondo Channeling his inner Mark Corrigangarbage
- Nairn4
Homophobic Horses.
- fooler0
Epicurious will stop publishing recipes with beef to encourage sustainable cooking.
- Sustainable cooking is political correctness? What is the world coming to?!palimpsest
- Guess it's politically 'correct' when it's the act of waving a commercially strategic 'ethical' stance about which has no credible ecological groundingNonEntity
- It's not cattle; it's monoculture and factory farming that are the problemNonEntity
- u broke if ur wok ain’t wokeGnash
- Haters gonna hateoey_oey
- Oh good lordMondoMorphic
- "get some vitamin B-12 morans"GuyFawkes
- drgs0
>Last year, the author JK Rowling returned an award given to her by the Robert F Kennedy Human Rights organisation, after its president, Kennedy’s daughter Kerry Kennedy, criticised her views on transgender issues.
“I am deeply saddened that RFKHR has felt compelled to adopt this stance, but no award or honour, no matter my admiration for the person for whom it was named, means so much to me that I would forfeit the right to follow the dictates of my own conscience,” said Rowling in a statement at the time.JK Rowling -- the most intelligent human on earth
- Terfs get the wall.face_melter
- "most intelligent human on earth"
Wut? Who got that idea?pango