#Language

This thread is getting a lot of new attention lately. (Hello #ADHDtwitter!) I've learned a lot over the year since I originally posted this. Here are a few insights and
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Why the concept of person-first language is inherently ableist, from its inception:If you have to go out of your way to remember and communicate that disabled folks are still PEOPLE,
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There's a place for the "classics", value to be had in many, but if you want young people to get into sff/horror, don't say they HAVE to read books 50-100
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#Khamr by debut author @JamilFarouk is a hard-hitting and reflective memoir that saw many prominent voices in the arts and activist spheres endorse its publication on 3 April 20201/9#BuyTheEbook Now
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Its more that Pelagianism/Rousseau-ism is a re-occurring strain of thought within liberalism. We are born good or as blank slates & it is society that makes us bad. The views
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Iโ€™m currently reading Natives by @akalamusic it is quite frankly magnificent. However, Iโ€™ve just finished the chapter on secondary education and the hideous, obvious racist and what happened (or rather
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Thinking of becoming a social app thought leader Successful social apps are all alike; every unsuccessful social app is unsuccessful in its own way. There are only 4 factors in
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A pointed political satire from the right was reported as a local man's quirky, meaningless joke about boneless chicken by both local and national news, and that framing is now
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the appropriation of AAVE by white people is gross, the mislabeling of AAVE as a "Gen Z phenomenon" is also gross, but on top of that, the SNL skit reads
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the core of Tomino's gundam is about imperialist violence and anti-imperialist violence.In the Universal Century, systemic change requires violence because it's a class war (earthnoids/spacenoids). gundam is specifically all about
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I wanna play a little Cash*pp game like I did the other day. It was fun. So this one is a geo-game let's goIf you're a sub from the
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Man I really hate that Jane Eyre was my favorite book for so long but now I just dislike the relationship b/t Jane and Rochester soooo much. Rochester is a
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exile โ€ข eleanor x vaneโžต like you'd get your knuckles bloody for me / second, third, and hundredth chances / balancin' on breaking branches my tears ricochet โ€ข rin x
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Many plenty and most grown BLK women ventured through a pick me stage at a younger stage. Even the most radical of us went through it in some form or
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doni & coni being problematic; a thread this is all monsta x. - ignorant, disrespectful and plain rude jokes about somalia, iraq, syria and afghanistan- told minhyuk he looked too
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Okay so Puerto Rico statehood has come up a few times in the past month and then I made the terrible decision to suffer through Fox News talking about it
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