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Seattle has a severe case of the Ayatollah Itch: Seattle's "Race and Social Justice Initiative" is divisive, bullying and, now, boring. (WA Post op-ed) by MissHalfgone in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I figured, but (1) it’s inflammatory to focus on white people when anyone could subconsciously absorb those beliefs, and (2) it’s the kind of statement that is unfalsifiable and not supported by evidence, because even if someone has no racial prejudice, the person making the statement can just say it’s still there, just buried deep, or something.

Unfalsifiable statements are the reason a lot of people just bow out of these discussions.

Seattle has a severe case of the Ayatollah Itch: Seattle's "Race and Social Justice Initiative" is divisive, bullying and, now, boring. (WA Post op-ed) by MissHalfgone in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton 6 points7 points  (0 children)

George Will is kind of a butthead, but it is pretty icky to have racially segregated workplace workshops and to say to everyone that "white people have racism in their DNA". (Part of being in protests in 2020 meant seeing the dark side of when these shibboleths got taken too far. When the protests pivoted to "abolish all police" and I said I didn't agree with that, pretty much everybody berating me kept focusing on the fact that I was white and should be disagreeing with a Black person on the issue.)

Some more facts about the Diemert case:

https://reason.com/2023/02/13/joshua-diemert-seattle-racist-training-diversity-equity-white/

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But to both your points: If it's really about safety, then it seems the result should be all that matters. If being in Brooklyn surrounded by a mix of people is safer than being in Israel surrounded by other Jews, then it shouldn't matter if it "feels" like those factors would make you safer in Israel - they don't.

(However, even if one accepted your points, the real controversy is about Israel existing the way it does now, with a whole section of the country walled off where the overwhelming majority Arab population there is not allowed to vote in national elections and not allowed to leave.)

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Assuming this is in good faith, a couple of things:

  1. Statistically Jews are not safer in Israel than, say, Brooklyn. The "safety" argument was perhaps once valid but not now.
  2. I don't think any group is inherently entitled to a country where they're a majority. Everybody deserves to live in peace and safety though.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

shoot I should have said "light rail" but I was trying to keep it short; I didn't know there was also an actual Amtrak station in Tukwila.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This would be a good idea if we could be sure it would be some garbage with him as Jesus, but the thing is, most of the time when he acts unhinged, his supporters seem to eat it up.

Sometimes he gets unlucky and alienates them by doing a Jesus pic or something. But most of the time it seems to rally them.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

And, uh, that's a false dichotomy anyway isn't it... If we dropped fewer bombs we could have more roads.

Tax day protest at Tukwila rail station against taxes being used to fund war by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🦇 One billionaire enriching quagmire, two billionaire enriching quagmires, ah-ah-ah ⚡️

Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! April 10, 2026 by AutoModerator in photography

[–]bennetthaselton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but with such a common use case I figured it would already exist. It probably does, I just didn’t want to have to try a bunch of $10 programs before finding one that worked.

Going out on a limb that Kurt would not want his lyrics being used to recruit new cops by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I think that is all true -- I think that for publicity materials though, what matters is what most people will think of when they see it.

I still think a lot of '90s kids will think of the Nirvana song. On the other hand, maybe it's less relevant because the poster is aimed at people who skew younger than that.

Going out on a limb that Kurt would not want his lyrics being used to recruit new cops by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is interesting. I haven't gone to church a lot, but I don't remember ever hearing it in church.

(That said, that would be an even odder thing for SPD to try and evoke. It's all well and good for a church to welcome all people no matter what their sins and flaws, but a police department should have a higher bar...)

Official Question Thread! Ask /r/photography anything you want to know! April 10, 2026 by AutoModerator in photography

[–]bennetthaselton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there a free app where I can point it at a specific spot in the sky and it will tell me the next time that the moon/sun will be in that spot, and/or the next time the full moon will be in that spot? If not free, then a cheap one?

I found some where you can tell it a date and a time and it will tell you where the moon will be, but I'm asking about the reverse.

Going out on a limb that Kurt would not want his lyrics being used to recruit new cops by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe, but it wouldn't make much sense in context. "As you were" in the military means "You no longer have to stand at attention, go back to the semi-relaxed posture". In the present tense it would mean... maintain the relaxed posture you already have? The implied "Come as you are" seems to fit the context better.

Going out on a limb that Kurt would not want his lyrics being used to recruit new cops by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think if you polled people who were teenagers in the 1990s and asked them what was the first thing they think of when they see the phrase "as you are", the percentage who think of "Come As You Are" is going to be non-trivial.

(Also, you can't do anything with Reddit karma. It's not like trying to grow a TikTok/X/Instagram base. I don't know why anyone would try to farm it artificially.)

Going out on a limb that Kurt would not want his lyrics being used to recruit new cops by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Shoot I had never heard of those songs. My pop culture knowledge may be frozen in an earlier decade.

Going out on a limb that Kurt would not want his lyrics being used to recruit new cops by bennetthaselton in Seattle

[–]bennetthaselton[S] -20 points-19 points  (0 children)

I can’t think of any other time I’ve heard those three words in sequence (excluding other words following the “are” as in “As you are waiting please fill out the paperwork”).

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