96 yr old: You know how your parents probably say things like, “you were BORN with the internet, you don’t know what it’s like to live without!”
Me: yeah
96 yr old: Well, my parents said that to me about electricity.
I once made the mistake of asking a 96yo lady what she liked to watch on tv as a kid and she got a good laugh out of that before saying loudly, “I REMEMBER WHEN RADIO WAS INVENTED.”
people who make fun of autistic people are no longer allowed to use slime, weighted blankets, stress balls, or anything similar that originated and/or was popularized by the autistic community.
a white european, materializing out of nowhere: actually i’m not from america so i don’t get this. can someone explain this? race is actually a US-centric concept. it was invented in the US. i need you to break this down for me because here in europe we don’t judge people by race.
me: makes this post
white europeans with glass bones and paper skin: ACTUALLY you stupid ethnic american, what you DON’T understand is *insert wikipedia page about the british colonization of ireland/scotland* *insert wikipedia page about the ottoman empire* AND ANOTHER THING, EASTERN EUROPEANS DIDN’T EVER PARTICIPATE IN IMPERIALISM SO DON’T BLAME US, *insert standard speech about how ‘white’ isn’t a category that exists in europe because white people don’t know the difference between racism, ethnic discrimination, and xenophobia and they don’t understand how white supremacy exists as a specific type of hierarchy*