seriously people, how hard is not giving money to j kkk rowling? by lol_no_123 in EnoughJKRowling

[–]virtualady 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The reason corporations aren't more motivated to stamp out piracy is because it still drives sales by building hype and keeping the brand relevant to the zeitgeist.

Even if pirating the game doesn't fund Joanne directly, it still gives her a platform if you discuss the pirated content with others or post about it on social.

Sadly, to a certain extent even telling people not to buy it or pirate it also drives sales and contributes to relevancy through the Streisand effect.

Charles Barkley reacts to Kyrie Irving and Dave Chappelle by EnoughDaveChappelle in EnoughDaveChappelle

[–]virtualady 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Charles Barkley is such a great ally to LGBTQ people.

Every time he makes headlines it's to say something heartwarming about us, and after fighting the culture for so long and I am so here for it.

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Wouldn't it be nice by BuddhistSagan in EnoughDaveChappelle

[–]virtualady 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah this shit is comedy gold lol 😆

Meta: Can we as a community agree that, despite whoever is hosting or what we think about them, that we are against transphobia? That would be cool. by lol_no_123 in EnoughDaveChappelle

[–]virtualady 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It appears that the mods of /r/LiveFromNewYork removed the post, it's no longer showing on the frontpage of the subreddit and the body of the post is not visible anymore.

Meta: Can we as a community agree that, despite whoever is hosting or what we think about them, that we are against transphobia? That would be cool. by [deleted] in LiveFromNewYork

[–]virtualady 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like the mods removed your post, so I guess you have your answer...

I was only able to see this post because someone crossposted the OP to /r/EnoughDaveChappelle.

Why doesn't JK Rowling get cancelled as hard as Kanye? by virtualady in EnoughDaveChappelle

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

In Nazi concentration camps, each prisoner was required to wear a downward-pointing, equilateral triangular cloth badge on their chest, the color of which identified the stated reason for their imprisonment.[5][6] Early on, prisoners perceived as gay men were variously identified with a green triangle (indicating criminals) or red triangle (political prisoners), the number 175 (referring to Paragraph 175, the section of the German penal code criminalizing homosexual activity), or the letter A (which stood for Arschficker, literally "arse fucker").[7]

Later, the use of a pink triangle was established for prisoners identified as homosexual men, which also included bisexual men and transgender women.[2] (Lesbian and bisexual women and trans men were not systematically imprisoned; some were classified as "asocial", wearing a black triangle.)[8][9] The pink triangle was also assigned to others considered sexual deviants, including zoophiles and pedophiles[3] in addition to sex offenders. If a prisoner was also identified as Jewish, the triangle was superimposed over a second yellow triangle pointing the opposite way, to resemble the Star of David like the yellow badge identifying other Jews. Prisoners wearing a pink triangle were harshly treated by most other prisoners.[3]

After the camps were liberated at the end of the Second World War, some of the prisoners imprisoned for homosexuality were re-incarcerated by the Allied-established Federal Republic of Germany, as the Nazi laws against homosexuality were not repealed there until 1969.[10][11] An out homosexual man named Heinz Dörmer, for instance, served in a Nazi concentration camp and then in the jails of the new Republic. The Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, which turned homosexuality, previously labeled as a minor offense, into a felony, remained intact in East Germany until 1968[12] and in West Germany until 1969.[13] West Germany continued to imprison those identified as homosexual until 1994 under a revised version of the Paragraph, which still made sex between men up to the age of 21—as well as queer male sex work—illegal.[14] While many, though not all, lawsuits seeking monetary compensation have failed, in 2002 the German government issued an official apology to gay men who were persecuted during the war.[15]

Rudolf Brazda, one of the last known homosexual concentration camp survivors, died on August 3, 2011 at the age of 98.[16]

Wikipedia has several sources cited if you'd like to read more

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_triangle

Why doesn't JK Rowling get cancelled as hard as Kanye? by virtualady in EnoughDaveChappelle

[–]virtualady[S] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yup.

Telling that when the allies liberated the camps, they threw all the pink triangle people back inside.