As to the not texting you first thing: one possibly is she gets a lot of unwanted male attention from those who over-interpret her niceness as romantic interest, and she is really leery of encouraging anyone. She might be afraid you have such interest.
Very well said. There is also an effect at play here where the more dire an accusation is, the more our natural tendency is to believe it. Take a more extreme example: pedophile. If your neighbor is accused of being a pedophile, however flimsy the evidence, people are going to start acting as if it is true.
It’s logical behavior, in a way, because dangers with more serious consequences need to be taken more seriously. Its safer to just assume a dangerous threat is really a threat even if you’re not sure about the data. This is terrible for those with suspicion cast on them, but it is a thing.
Please be aware, any accusation that could be used to vilify an opponent, and make one potentially look like the Good Guy for calling them out WILL be used. Some people are shit, and others will easily rationalize themselves into believing whatever is convenient, with the flimsiest evidence.
Issues that are especially fraught, the sort of accusations that really get people riled up are especially tempting for such people.
Moose is a good example of an animal that might kill you for looking at him funny in rutting season. Especially if you have a dog.
I’m pretty sure American sign language looks different than that.
Is that manatee in your pants or are you REALLY happy to see me?
Or “men’s white briefs”.
They fit relatively tightly compared to boxers, even when the right size.
High West Double Rye is really good for the price.
The was no ‘just’, just as there was no equating.
Bring any nuance to a charged topic and the ones who think in black and white terms will come to misinterpret what you said in the least charitable way.
Maybe not, but the boundaries can be fuzzy, and statistics tend to get built on technical language that may not treat the fuzziness the way you or I would agree with. So I get the urge to use vague language like ‘affects’ or the difficulty in finding language that is general enough without sounding mealy mouthed.
In reality, it’s not purely about race. Most racism isn’t between groups that are culturally identical, it is between groups with significant cultural differences. Race is just the most obvious attribute used to identify the other group.
I get you, but how would you phrase it? I expect, BTW, that it might be intended to cover both the extreme of children forced to work in a sweatshop 12/7 and children who have to help their parents with some subsistence tasks.
Thank you for your service!
Remember the redneckizer that would translate whatever text you entered into redneck speak? (There were other flavors too.) I want someone to make a sovcitizer.
Believe it or not the Goldberg variations works for me.
You might need multiple ladders. An extension ladder if you think you’ll every need to get up on the roof, clean out the gutters, etc. Definitely a full size step ladder. A really light short step ladder can be handy too.
I’d also suggest a painters tool. A couple of putty knives and a can of patching plaster.
What’s really wild is that his biggest concern is that the people doing the fascist thing could become the target of it later. There’s no dawning of ‘oh maybe the people doing this aren’t so good’ no, he’s worried that the other people who have been warning that they are fascists might pursue them later with the fascist precedent they are putting in place.