Saw this on Twitter and wanted to share it on here (credit goes to the original poster- @ JustSayXtian, I screenshotted from an Unrolled thread website thing):
There is currently a big thing on Twitter right now about people saying Christmas is 100% totally secular, and that it’s not fair to say classrooms can’t be red and green with a Christmas tree, and that people who don’t celebrate Christmas can’t say they feel left out. Obviously this isn’t true. It’s not a secular holiday and people do feel left out.
A thought experiment
Imagine if you celebrated Christmas, but that was the minority holiday during the winter season.
Does anybody else have this that their pain just fades into the background to the point that they don’t even identify it as pain anymore?
Like I’ve been trying to fall asleep for hours and I knew something was feeling wrong but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it and it took me until 3 am to figure out OUCH it hurty.
I don’t even know I’m in pain anymore. Just that something is some kind of wrong.
Every day of my life is this. It’d be nice for all of us if we didn’t have to deal with this.
Wearing a mask isn’t just about protecting yourself from someone who’s sick. It’s also about YOU protecting everyone else in case you are sick and don’t realize it.
You think your colleagues, friends, family, random person on the street doesn’t see how you don’t care about other peoples welfare when you’re not wearing your mask? I see how you are selfishly only thinking of yourself, and don’t actually care about your family/friends/colleagues. They will never forget how you screamed your uncaringness about them by Not. Wearing. A. Simple. Mask. In. The. Midst. Of. A. Global. Pandemic.
“Stop scrolling and please help me spread the word, because if I’ve landed on your page you’re most likely either a black woman or someone who cares about black women and the simple phrase I’m about to share could help save a black woman’s life.
Doctors are to black women what police officers are to black men. That may seem controversial but I believe it to be true and I speak from personal experience.
If you’ve seen this TikTok you know that a 2016 study showed that 50% of medical students and residents thought that black people couldn’t feel pain the same as white people.
And we learned from this video that because of a 1999 study, to this day, there’s a black correction factor for the creatinin levels in black people’s kidneys, meaning we’re less likely to recieve a kidney transplant if needed.
So if you go to a doctor, feel you aren’t getting proper treatment or they refuse the treatment you’ve requested, say to them the following:
I will need you to document on record that you are refusing the treatment (or medicine) I’ve requested, and the reason you are doing so.”
This works. I have used it in other situations. If medical staff have to document and take responsibility and be on the hook legally for doing shady shit they behave much differently.
If you weren’t already going to spread this advice because black women are at risk, then spread it because it’s applicable to everyone else as well, including you reading this.
But particularly women, and especially black women.
Yes, this is important to spread and hear. I have a black female friend with sickle cell anemia and she’s had to fight to get the level of care she’s needed. Make sure to spread this. It’s incredibly important.
I get it, I really do - but Trump has literally stripped away rights from trans kids and fucked the careers of trans people in the military. Pence believes in conversion therapy.
We can remember and discuss these issues, but at the end of the day, Trump/Pence is the greater evil and we need to vote in a unified way to get them out of office because the second term would be so much worse. Don’t vote independent, just suck it up and recognize that we’re not gonna get a perfect candidate ever.
Here’s an article that gives more details on the story, and what Harris said about it. The key points:
It was the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation that refused the surgery to the inmates. When the inmates fought the policy in court, as Attorney General of California, it was Harris’s job to represent the Department. Yes, she did it, but it wasn’t something she decided on her own to do. (Also, not for nothing, the inmates won the case.)
Her characterization of the episode: “On that issue I will tell you I vehemently disagree and in fact worked behind the scenes to ensure that the Department of Corrections would allow transitioning inmates to receive the medical attention that they required, they needed and deserved,” Harris said.
A policy now exists for inmates to receive transition-related care in California prisons (although apparently the DoC isn’t doing a great job of holding up its end of the bargain*–quelle surprise).
(*For the record, Harris finished her time as AG and became a Senator shortly after this agreement was reached, so it’s someone else’s job now to enforce it.)
The thing to keep in mind here is that, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris couldn’t wave her hand and have everything in the entire California Department of Justice go exactly as she wanted it–and she won’t be able to as Vice President, either. We currently have a president who thinks that’s how it works, and we’re damned lucky he’s wrong.
She had (and will have to) work with large number of people who hold different views. (Another article I read said that the California Department of Justice, which she ran as AG, employs about 4,800 people–that’s a lot of different views.) If she had refused to back the Department of Corrections in their case, she would have alienated people whose cooperation she needed to be able to rely on. (If she even had the option of not backing them and staying AG–I’m not sure how it works, exactly.) Even people who agreed with her about the specific matter might have disapproved of her hanging her subordinates out to dry. (Another thing our current president does constantly–notice how Harris isn’t saying that the person in her office who actually wrote these briefs is a bad guy that she barely knew.)
So here’s what actually happened when Kamala Harris “fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery”:
The Department of Corrections had a policy denying gender-affirmation surgery to inmates.
Two inmates fought that policy in court.
Harris defended that policy in court (or, more accurately, was the supervisor of the person who did so–but the legal documents went out under her signature, and she takes responsibility for their content).
Harris also worked to change the policy.
If you’ve had a job, you’ve probably been in the position of having to carry out a policy that you don’t agree with. Your choices are to quit your job in protest or stay and argue that the policy should change. If you pick option B, you still have to follow the policy while you’re working to change it–again, just about the only person in the world who doesn’t know this is Donald J. Trump, because he’s never had a real job where he answered to anybody.
She/her also personally fought against transwomen in prison seeking gender affirmation surgery…
What this incident shows is that Kamala Harris is accustomed to working in a system where she doesn’t always get her own way, and that she knows how to lose the battle to win the war. As VP, she’s going to need those skills–especially if the Republicans keep the Senate, but even if the Democrats sweep everything in November, we’re notoriously bad at all pulling in the same direction. We’ve had about enough of the “I’m taking my ball and going home” style of leadership.
Voting Trump is a face full of glass shards, and a vote for an independent is a vote for Trump. This isn’t complicated.
I had not seen this explanation, and I’m reblogging it because I probably have followers who haven’t either.
Fellow Spoonie-friends, does anybody else experience this? You feel off the whole day, restless, maybe frustrated and just don’t know why, and then you realize that you’re in pain, like in a lot of pain and you felt that but kind of… Didn’t realize it? Because that’s happening to me on a frequent basis now and today again and I’m like Body??? Come on??? Why?
You are not alone. I deal with this a lot as well. It’s very aggravating.
I know you want to “do what Jesus did,” but I got news for you. Jesus never attended a Seder. He ate a Passover meal. There is a difference.
The Seder is a rabbinic creation that came about after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. It’s based on a Greek symposium, which was basically a wine party where attendants discussed a philosophical topic in depth (cf. Plato’s Symposium). It was created as a way for Jews to continue celebrating Passover despite the fact that we could no longer offer the sacrifice. The Haggadah is the text and ritual outline we use to tell and remember the story of the Exodus, which didn’t exist in the time of Jesus.
Throughout history, Christians have slaughtered Jews during Passover and Easter. For Christians to now steal a Jewish ritual after centuries of slaughter is adding insult to injury. Don’t do it.
If you want to commemorate Jesus’ last meal, by all means host a dinner on Maundy Thursday (not Passover) with bread and wine, and tell your religion’s own story of the passion of Jesus. But don’t do a Seder that Jesus never even would have heard of, much less participated in.
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