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There’s something really disturbing to me about the way the media, and indeed her own mother, continue to talk about Brianna Ghey - a constant focus on publicising her mental health, as if she’d committed suicide, and never focusing on the transphobia that actually led to her horrific murder.

did they stab her to death with a phone Esther?

??? we aren't talking about child abuse/the law, we're talking about kinship structures and how relatives are seen/named in the many different cultures in the US. you said technically it's his cousin, but technically it's not in *his* culture. there's no law in the US around who you can call auntie

the only time i've "used" it is when google pops up something on a search but a lot of the time it's bs and totally inaccurate

Israel launches strikes on Gaza, claiming Hamas violated truce Israel accused Hamas of firing on Israeli troops and returning remains that belonged to a hostage whose body the military had already partially recovered.

"Israel has continuously carried out low-intensity strikes since Oct. 11, the first full day after ceasefire came into effect — killing more than 90 people, according to Gaza Health Ministry." "Low intensity" apparently means killing "only" 90 people. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

but his culture is still indian, so it's not "technically wrong"

i think this is most cultures, including most white cultures. whoever is writing these headlines is completely out of touch with how things work in most communities

wait til these people find out how many punjabis don't even know the real names of a lot of their aunts/uncles. so many are 100% of the time referred to by nicknames that sound nothing like their given names

the thing is, in indian culture that person *is* technically an aunt and not a cousin because that's how our kinship structures work. so to us, calling parents' cousins "cousin" isn't technically correct. they're our aunts/uncles and their kids are our cousins

me too! that post just made me go back and listen and watch some of the old videos...such a gem!

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Yeah it’s definitely not limited to non western cultures, it’s mostly just self-isolating snobs who don’t have meaningful relationships that don’t get it

I honestly think it’s a narrow section of individualist conservative white American society that don’t do this. I have so many aunts and cousins and idk how or if I’m related to a lot of them but I still see them as family

This is literally how kinship structures work in a lot of cultures. Just because it doesn’t correspond with specific white American ones doesn’t make it a lie ffs

how does she still have a column. truly embarrassing

son has officially declared that his fave sport is cricket. looks like i finally need to try and understand it now 💀

Pretty sure all Jewish people aren’t violent football hooligans, Ed

They have completely and utterly bludgeoned any idea of public truth - we will probably live with the negative consequences of this for the rest of our days

Saying *WEST MIDLANDS POLICE* are an islamist organisation is fucking circus clown bullshit. But now, Starmer is feeding the narrative that they're acting outside of the government and Starmer himself can't control them.

He's achieved this within half of a 24hr news cycle.

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How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

this is so cute! <3

this sweet man 💔 i saw this video so many times at the start of the genocide. his love and gentleness towards this tiny baby ❤️

Bad person seeing a good person: what the fuck, why is she faking? Is it just to piss me off?

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Once again racism and racism apologia is ripping apart a community I’m part of and it’s literally the same playbook they use every damn time.

This is my kid’s school and it’s unsettling knowing who the racist parents are and how many 😬

what do you even say. what do you even say.

Lmao feel this. We ended up putting new floors in over top and no regrets (though I’m sure some people will want to kill us but we tried to live with them for over a decade…)