Peace, Love, and Happiness to all from every corner of this Earth! To the friends that I have made, mutuals, likers, and re-bloggers, thanks for taking the time to read and share, I appreciate you all! This world may seem like nothing but noise and chaos at times, but if we look deeper than what the eyes behold, we can find so much beauty in this world. So let us all take the time to smell the roses. We are all in this together. 🌎Love, hugs, and always purple passions!🌹🫂💜🎶🎵
Though this SNL skit was imho tone deaf and poorly-timed given current events in the Middle East, nonetheless, the subjects of mockery in the skit are not the innocent victims of this horrific violence and bloodshed, but rather the terrorist organization which ignited the war between Israel and Palestine on October 7, and the comedy group Please Don’t Destroy, who wrote and portray characters in the skit.
I would hope that most reasonable people can agree that terrorist organizations are evil and must be defeated to prevent them from carrying out their horrific crimes on vulnerable populations.
🚨 Spoiler Alert 🚨
In the skit, a failed aspiring musician played by Timothée Chalamet intends to end his misery from a tall building but is stopped by three men (Please Don’t Destroy) who attempt to talk him out of his plan from the street. In the course of their short conversation, the despondent musician is horrified to realize that he’s inadvertently called his band the same name as a terrorist organization: “HAY-muss … H-A-M-A-S”.
When an exciting opportunity arises while still standing on the ledge, in his excitement, his only hope of achieving success literally slips through his fingers. PDD offers to help him out by playing his music on SNL, but he rejects their offer, preferring instead to carry out his plan, as implied in the final scene.
That’s it. That’s the joke.
Objectivity is fundamental in discovering the truth about anything, especially when tragedy looms large and emotions run high. I’m sharing this perspective not to excuse anyone’s choices but hopefully to provide clarity where it might be helpful, in order to make an informed decision.
What feels like justifiable moral outrage might actually be a response to the unbearable weight of grief and despair. With that in mind, let’s give each other time and space, as applicable, to process this horrific situation in the Middle East in the ways that make sense for us and which do not cause additional harm to anyone or add to the ugliness of the world in its current state.
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Hey, about that post you responded to? The one about blocking people for being mildly annoying? Just wanted to say that initially I had a similar reaction to yours, but after thinking about it a little…I think the disconnect here is about the difference between real life and online.
The fact is, they said nothing about cutting off mildly annoying people IRL. It’s just their own way of curating their online experience. Yeah, it’ll probably create bubbles, but frankly the Internet already does this so all it really changes (barring massive changes to the structure of the Internet) is it makes using the Internet less stressful. Hope this provides a new perspective.
Anyway given your other posts I’m thinking I’ll want to curate my online experience by not interacting with you further, but have a nice life. (Please reconsider your stance on whether an autistic person saying that casual use of the r-slur is harmful to autistic people is the same as that autistic person maliciously calling all autistic people the r-slur.)
Oh shut the fuck up.
Try that Special Snowflake nonsense at a job. Or the supermarket. Or anywhere outside your own head or social media, as if there's a difference.
Real Life is not a "Safe Space." You are as "Different" and as "Annoying" to them as they are to you. Accept this fact. The sooner you stop demanding the world to change to please you, and start changing yourself to deal with the world, the better.
The best anyone can hope for in this life is tolerance. You're not offering it, you don't deserve any. This should bother you. A lot.
A picture can try to say a thousand words as it captures a moment's pristine time. As one may truly, never know, until you step beyond photo manifolds. To reciprocate many words of the wise, you must look deeper with open eyes and understand that for me to simply be, is to traverse beyond life, and love being me. Every part of my imperfect symmetry, for outer beauty, will always fade, it drapes the bones until the ending day. But to dig into my solitude's peace and show the world a smirk/a smile, self-love existence is my form of beguile. So I permit my imagery and words to plant cerebral seeds. Now paint the picture that you wish to see. I am the daughter of a soldier; verbiage of a drunken saint. The offspring of a voyeur; Wicca's interbred baby. Poetries ark, a product of tomorrow's maybe. Strummer on wood clasped down metal strings; spread across the stars amidst satin wings. Scribe of my skin stitched with Kuro Sumi Ink. I wear the scar's past as a badge of victory's sync. To get where I am now, was never easy. But I am simply in love with life and I damn for sure love being ME!
Welcome to a quick but important language lesson before our lovely Korean speaking members join the QSMP!
I call it:
“No, that Korean speaker is not casually saying the N-word.”
The Korean word for “I/me” is 내가, romanized as “nae-ga”
The Korean word for “you” is 니가, romanized as “ni-ga”
They are not saying a racial slur. It is literally the word for me/you. please understand the context, and get familiar with hearing these words all the time in normal conversation.
Read this article, this is what they have had to deal with in the west before.
Above all, extend grace and understanding to the new members and new communities. Research things yourself, and educate your friends about their language and culture to avoid misunderstandings. Realize that for many of these new people, this may be their first time interacting with another culture- let alone so many at once. They will be learning themselves, and may make mistakes. Be patient and for the love of god don’t scare them off. spread love <3