• pronounced ɱɐɢ @lemmygrad.ml
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      27 days ago

      I am still proud to this day that I can spell bourgeoisie despite not speaking any french.

      Oh wait sorry I meant burjwayzee, sorry.

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        27 days ago

        Just as I learn to spell it, I get surrounded by progressive liberals who (CW: gross)

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        projectile vomit

        whenever I use it in a sentence angery

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          I use “Mine owners” a lot. It’s great cause it really separates the wheat from the chaff as far as people who just don’t know better and the actual liberals who believe in soft-core fascism.

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            There’s an art/science to relating to progressive liberals, and a lot of times I just try to get people to talk about their own observations and thoughts. I’m very much a proponent and practitioner of critical pedagogy.

            But when people come to the meeting I am chairing, in a group I helped organize, and then hypervigilant police every word I use for how it wont relate to their white affluent neighborhood, like even if I am convinced that they are legit there in good faith, it can be really disruptive to say the least.

            Like, I learned leftism from a bunch of grumpy Trot union organizers, i’m a worker who came to this shit, sorry I don’t conform to the public university masters in social sciences dissertation review style guide