He takes a seat at the bar and the bartender asks, "what's got you down?"
The proctologist says, "Nothing, just a bunch of assholes at work."
My grandmother was a nazi before my grandfather immigrated our family to Canada. She was a short, plump lady with white hair and an apron who was always in the kitchen baking cookies, cooking meals. But then she would open her mouth and say vile, racist things. My grandfather actually fought in WWII and he would be so offended by the things she said. Everyone always told me to be tolerant and try to understand her situation, but it never made sense to me because my Opa fought as a nazi, and he planned his immigration to Canada for years to get away from the military.
Queue to Covid, at 99 years, my Oma got sick with kidney failure. She spent the last 2 years in ICU and finally died at the beginning of November. She died alone because none of us could visit.
We can finally have a funeral for her and I declined to attend. Now, that side of the family is calling me an asshole for not letting it go and giving a toast to her memory at her service they planned.
I blocked the entire family in response. AITA?
I've already voiced out my thoughts that I do not believe anymore, nor do I want to partake in anything regarding the religion, but my parents still want to hold a daily bible study. Since I have no choice, are there any..."interesting" bible verses you can think of? Like, maybe something that shows hypocrisy or something not that "good" in the bible, just enough to pass as something I can show. Bonus if it's something animated on youtube
It would be like Narnia but you’re essentially a god in control of the very fabric of that dimension. Nothing outlandish in said dimension can be taken out. Say you make a pack of cigarettes. You can take that out. You can’t take out 100 cartons of cigarettes. Others can be taken into the universe (as well as created) but only have as much power as you allow them.
Sure, its unusual, but don't read too much into it.
why me
Claire Jean Kim / Korean-American.
UC-Irvine professor of Asian American Studies
>- Asian Americans have been racially triangulated vis-a-vis Blacks and Whites, or located in the field of racial positions with reference to these two other points. Racial triangulation occurs by means of two types of simultaneous, linked processes: (1) processes of “relative valorization,” whereby dominant group A (Whites) valorizes subordinate group B (Asian Americans) relative to subordinate group C (Blacks) on cultural and/or racial grounds in order to dominate both groups, but especially the latter, and (2) processes of “civic ostracism,” whereby dominant group A (Whites) constructs subordinate group B (Asian Americans) as immutably foreign and unassimilable with Whites on cultural and/or racial grounds in order to ostracize them from the body politic and civic membership.
Refer to image of the racial triangulation model
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Xiaofeng Stephanie Da / Chinese-American.
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
>- Asian Americans and Blacks have become the polarized ends, with an expanding "Whiteness" as the filler in between. Whites are viewed as the mainstream players in the middle of the spectrum, while Asian Americans and Blacks are marginalized on the ends. The resulting message to society is that "White culture is the majority culture as well as the favored culture. White is normal. Whiteness is desirable."
>- On one socioeconomic plane, while Blacks suffered from being labeled as inferior in areas such as education, intellect and economic well-being, Asian Americans have often been praised as the "model minority" for achieving successes that other minority groups should strive to emulate. On another plane, while Asian Americans suffered from being characterized as perpetual foreigners unable to fully assimilate into mainstream U.S. society, Blacks have enjoyed more privilege in this area as they are seen as less of a "foreign" face.
>- As a result factions are created, and minority groups each face an uphill battle against the dominant group that is actually the common source of their oppression.
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Brando Simeo Starkey / African-American.
Associate editor of The Undefeated
>- Black skin, in many ways, granted advantages over being of Asian descent. The Naturalization Act of 1870 granted perhaps the biggest such advan
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