• I'm back on my BS 🤪
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    1985 months ago

    Someone told me they saw people on Facebook complaining that the Olympics opening ceremony was too diverse. I was like, did they want to have an Olympics with all other countries banned?? That already exists, and it’s called national championships. Otherwise, a sports competition that includes the entire world is going to include people from the entire world. I don’t understand what they wanted…an Olympics in Paris with only White USA??

    • @mojo_raisin
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      5 months ago

      I mean, they’re on FB, so ya, they probably thought something like that, if their thoughts even went beyond the words themselves.

      It’s like imagining what a lizard thinks about you, it’s easy and fun to project your intelligence on it, this is what you’re doing here. You’re projecting your intelligence and logic on others apparently without that capacity. Those FB people didn’t think about what their words meant any more than a lizard wonders about your nature.

    • @Drivebyhaiku
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      345 months ago

      Yeah I got a older co worker who behaves in a way that strikes me as very undiagnosed autistic of his generation. He went on a whole rant about how the Olympics should be like a family reunion where you have to mask your less socially acceptable behaviours and cannot just be yourself because you shouldn’t always be yourself around your family for the sake of overall unity…

      And yeah… I was just thinking how sad that was. Like bro. We’ve since realized how toxic that is to people and our generation is trying to undo that expectation and damage. The neurotypical flattening of self expression always was a tyranny, you just normalized it.

      • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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        195 months ago

        The neurotypical flattening of self expression always was a tyranny

        Dude, you just blew my mind. Thank you.

      • @[email protected]
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        125 months ago

        The neurotypical flattening of self expression always was a tyranny, you just normalized it.

        I chef kiss this sentence.

    • @DontRedditMyLemmy
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      95 months ago

      I assume that even a national championship is going to have a lot of POC represented, not just whiteys.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮
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      5 months ago

      It’s a bit exhausting that everyone is so focused on the people not worth mentioning all the time. Not only we drown in lots of trash from these Facebook people but then others spread it everywhere else too. I hoped it would be a positive post for a change

    • @x00z
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      -25 months ago

      It’s not too diverse. It’s too woke.