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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlAmerica™
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    22 hours ago

    Well, the normal kind of slavery usually involved some level of rape, and slave children weren’t uncommon, so…2+2=4…

    They didn’t see people or even children. They saw a n****r. They saw a n****r with a hole. A hole that they owned, and can do with what they please.

    Apologies for resorting to the strong language, but it’s kind of important to impart…we grew up with a very romanticized vision of slavery taught to us by the white American public education system. I made a goddamn diorama of a plantation in the 5th grade (1995). And put a happy little slave working the tobacco fields (my mom even crumbled up a cigarette and glued it to the board. It was a Misty. I can still smell it…)

    Using the hurtful word, in this context, I think is important to remind us of exactly why it’s such a hurtful word. The history has been forgotten by so many.

    I’d gladly use any of Carlin’s 7 Words in most contexts. That word is obfuscated for a reason. It shouldn’t be used anymore, except in this type of context, to remind us of our violent past.



















  • My employer sends out a sheet every year that itemizes our entire comp package.

    The single most expensive is my insurance, a family EPO with a $750/1500 deductible.

    I pay $8200/yr. My employer pays nearly $33,000.

    Forty. Thousand. Dollars. For one family.

    Plus another $10k or so for Medicare and Dental and Vision.

    $50k, per year, all told.

    That is equal to roughly half of the median household income in my town.

    And then deductibles, co-pays, etc.

    And then…the fuckers…you put money in your FSA but can’t locate the receipt for reimbursement? Fuck off man, that money is for your employer now.

    Our President is fucking children with zero consequence, and I need to show a fucking receipt to reimburse a fucking $3 prescription, with my own money that I put there.

    After myself and my employer already paid $50k combined into the system?

    Fuck this country man.