• DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth
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    6 hours ago

    Hey, I just want to recognize that this guy hasn’t said anything racist in months. Good job buddy, keep it up!

  • unmagical@lemmy.ml
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    We have two summer holidays and one “based on race” because the one “based on race” recognizes the time Union soldiers arrived on the Texan shores and forcibly freed a group of people subjugated based on their race–it just didn’t happen to fall on July 4th.

    The two holidays recognize two completely different things it doesn’t matter when in the damn year it occurred.

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      Oh, you’re playing with fire trying to be pedantic like this. You’re using the astronomical definition which starts on the solstice (some astronomical definitions treat the solstice as the center of the season, but starting at the solstice is the predominant one). Multiple countries use the meteorological definition which includes every day within three months (June, July, August in the Northern Hemisphere). The US has no overarching legal definition, but for example, US maritime law gives a batshit definition of summer as “April 1 to October 31” and winter as all the rest. And culturally in the US, summer tends to start at Memorial Day (e.g. this is when outdoor public pools usually start opening).

      There’s no “technically” here, or if there is, you’re just as right as you are wrong. If anything, given a cultural holiday, it’s arguably most “correct” to assess it using the cultural definition.

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      Yeah, it’s 1-3 days before it and now that’s how I’ll remember when summer starts

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          It’s still how most things are made. Stateside, the prison system is the only slavery left but worldwide, there are many examples still going strong. It’s nowhere near as prevalent as it was though

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    Why are you still giving space to his views? I definitely don’t agree with his worldview but he hated enough alive, maybe his viewpoint should stop being perpetuated.

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      It’s important to remind everyone that he was a piece of shit. Republicans are whitewashing his history.

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        Funfact about dead people. They are fucking dead. The only reason to bring them up is because you agree with them. Full fucking stop no fucking argument.

        If they are a piece of shit leave them to rot and forget about them. They are FUCKING DEAD.

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        Are they though?

        At the very least, no one is doing it here. I’d rather have a rebuttal comment if/when a post that tries to do that, rather than seeing these posts