Edit: Meme has been slightly altered to be more accurate. Credit to @ininewcrow for the updated and better image.

    • Stamets@startrek.websiteOP
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      1 year ago

      It took me an EMBARRASSING amount of time to realize that was two thumbs up and not like… holding his clothes with his fingers tucked in. I was so fucking confused. I want to slap myself.

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        1 year ago

        It took me an embarrassing amount of time of self reflection to edit that … the whole time I was thinking … will people think this is racist, am I racist, am I reverse-racist, is that a thing? Should I laugh at my culture? Is that allowed? Should I allow myself?

        So I just burned some sweetgrass, waved my hands at the sun and hit reply

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          1 year ago

          Meanwhile, as a white guy I have no compunction against mocking white people every chance I get. Privilege, indeed.

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            mishtikooshoo … this is word we use for white people in my language … the root word is mishtik … which means ‘stick’ or ‘wood’

            Adding the ooshoo at the end associates the root word to a group or to a people or a person

            So the word literally translates as … ‘man with a stick’ … the silly stick they were holding in their hands and that was so important to them was the Christian cross

            When you look at the Christian faith without any knowledge about who they are and what they do or why … all you see is a ‘man with a stick’

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              1 year ago

              And It only gets worse when you know who they are and what they do. One wonders what they thought when they saw that they pray to not just the stick, but to a bloody man nailed to it.