Abracadaniel

watch the Wide Maya visit to Burkina Faso. these cars have been out for a few months now. they also have built state owned(?) tomato processing plants to start export finished goods rather than raw goods. the government has also engaged in a massive infrastructure (paved roads) campaign.

a (white) friend of mine, probably the least sinophobic person I know (maybe even sinophilic), dropped a slur

CW: slur

china + man

out of sheer airheadedness and ignorance, in new company. it was in reference to their chinese ex. they were with their partner traveling to visit/meet that partner's old roommate and her (black) girlfriend. they realized in the moment that it was not an appropriate term to use and apologized profusely (bumbled that too but I'll skip the details). Afterward there was a lot of talk about the incident by the other 3 involed. Now my friend's partner (obv quite embarassed) will not be having my friend around any of her friends for the forseeable future because they "can't be trusted to keep a safe space for black people"

this friend already has deeply seated issues with shame and white guilt and this incident obviously severely exacerbated that. It's fallen to me to help them through this. While I understand their perspective and believe this was just a stupid brain fuckup, there's some complaining from them about having received zero grace and about unrealistic standards of language "policing" that I think need to be deconstructed a bit.

This person is very much an ally but deeply chaotic/anarchic (Think Jacques Gonsoulin). Hopefully this can be a wakeup call that what they say does actually matter and they can learn to be a bit more careful from now on.

what can I say but yikes? like godamm, what a mess.

They're both good!

yes

neglection

where'd you get that UESP guide to morrowind? that's sick

got Morrowond running on my phone with the audiobooks mod 😎

better how? I always use epubs. am I missing out?

what kinda spray we talking here?

Cool cool, cool.