A black African American
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I'm gonna start bringing a portable clothes iron around to get out the creases from activist flags, it's not a huge deal but it just always irks me a little. Their image would be even more impressive with a nice creaseless flag.
The cheap, thin nylon is incredibly easy to melt. I buy a new, thick Pride flag every June for my house as the old one is tattered and faded by then. Usually run it through the steam dryer 2-3 times and then hang it out on a nice hot day, and the wrinkles relax. An iron is easy to overdo it with as I learned with a cheap Trans Pride flag one year.
I just wanna know what company is making all these flags...
The same ones that sell the "back the blue" flags.
I saw a flag seller in 2020 with a pole flying Trump, Biden, Jolly Roger, USSR, Bass Pro Shop, Weimar Germany, My Little Pony, ACAB, they are the true centrists of our time.
Props to him, but the text on the shirt is a little forced.
"evil" would had sufficed.
I thought exactly that. Opened the post, upvoted this thread.
However couldn't not Google it, and it may be on purpose.
evilness
noun
evil·ness
: the quality of being evil : badness
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/evilness
While it does sound better with just "evil", I wonder if they wished to exactly convey that what is being created is the quality of being evil in some people. All in all, that goes under the umbrella of evil, sure. But if we replace "evilness" with "badness", it no longer sounds worse than the alternative, just "inequality creates bad". Ofc you can't compare directly like that, I'm just trying to make the point that black civil activist haven't historically been that bad at language use, so perhaps we're just feeling the more colloquial version but that this may be prescriptively better, idk.
I'm no languinolologist.
Evilitude?
Badness sounds even worser
Yeah, but not worse than just "bad", whereas "evilness" sounds worse compared to just "evil."
My point is that it might not the most colloquial of English use, but MLK Jr didn't exactly speak vernacular either.
So just because something sounds a tad off doesn't necessarily mean it's wrong. And in a lot of cases it's the opposite, because languages just keep evolving.
"Evilness"?
Whether or not the grammar is technically correct he makes a good point.
That word struck me too, but it's in the dictionary and apparently it's from Old English "yfelnes".
It's on Merriam webster site as a word, what's your question?
A black African American, as opposed to white African American
That's technically true but I think if you called him African American he'd go apeshit
YES!
Let’s all refer to him as an African immigrant every time he’s mentioned, cause all immigrants are bad right? What’s good for the goose..
I've known South Africans that were white and definitely referred to themselves as white African American.
I'll never forget when a American tourist told my friend that he's glad to meet another African American, and my friend said: mate, i'm swiss
Have you ever seen an algerian
Are they a specific ethnicity in the United States defined generally by ancestral chattel slavery, because that's the primary use of the term
An algerian. From the country. Algeria.
That's in northern Africa.
And they white as hell. So the distinction of black african american isn't too weird.
You do have a point. I also have a point but yours is enough of a point that arguing more is gonna feel silly.
African American? Did they or their parents recently immigrate from Africa? Are they invested in African politics? Do they at least adopt some form of African cultural identity? Otherwise, they are just Americans.
Elon Musk is more of an African American than people judged by the color of their skin given how much he has tried to push his own agendas regarding South Africa onto this administration.
Elon Musk is more of an African American than people judged by the color of their skin
If Musk was truly a first generation African American, he'd have been deported already.
you know what "African-American" means, stop being obtuse, you just sound ridiculous
We all know what people mean by it; they mean "black" but are scared to say it for whatever reason.
I think criticism of the term "African-American" is valid. Most black people in America today have never been to Africa.
oh absolutely, i've seen enough criticism of that term from Black people (americans or not) to know not to use it.
still, pretending to not know what it means just to push a half-baked message about racial colorblindness is... why. why would you do this. the elon musk shit on top of it, why
My beef is with Americans saying "I am an X American" when what they really mean is "I try to LARP as X at times in whatever my American bubble says they do". But specially with African American. It's black. Black. Black. Say it with me. Black. No negative connotation (except people's own insecurities), just a simple oversimplified label like any other of its sort.
lemmy when someone makes a performative display of resistance online: 😄😁👍
lemmy when someone makes a display of resistance IRL (the person is Black): 😡😒👎🏻
look at the comments under this post, they’re full of animosity and snark towards that person
compare them to any post negative of ICE on this platform and you won’t see that same energy
What is this "we all" and "we've" shit? Your tapeworms have become sentient.
In the meantime, ICE is insecurity and frailty wreathed in weapons. They need to know just how very fucking much we hate them, not just corporately but individually. Each one of them.
Our guy here ("our" being American, as opposed to the "we" of you + your tapeworms) is doing his share. He saw something he could do, and he's doing it. He's showing up.
By way of contrast, you're just mocking his effort because that's all you have, and you have made it clear in other posts as well as your instance you're not even doing it from the same hemisphere.
That, and our guy with the flag isn't wrong. Inequality is exactly where all this began.
But back to you, your own favorite subject. You have such a problem with this one person doing his part that you actually have to mock it twice, but as far as I can see he's doing far more for the common good than you.
Turns out that a lot of little efforts are adding up to great things, like getting the National guard kicked out of LA and Chicago and Portland, but you're not interested in that.
Going by your other posts you just want to see other people fight, like all the Trump voters I know. They love that shit. I'm certain they'd love that for you too if they only knew.
So off to some other safe space with you, like Truth Social, lest another guy showing up for his community and country in his own individual way offend your politically delicate tapeworms to the point of mockery again.
You’re getting downvoted by clowns who think good intentions matter- these are the people keeping the US where it is right now.
Does your comment
A) add to the helplessness people are already feeling?
B) encourage defeatism in a time of rising authoritarianism?
C) reveal you’re somewhere safe in White Australia and have no idea how things are on the ground for average Americans?
D) all of the above.
Right? Who cares about flags?
I heard Francis Scott Key had a missing last verse that said, "Lol. JK. Flags are for losers."

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