Always make people mispronounce your name because then they will not have any Power over you by knowing your True Name.
I get that this may not be intended for people like me since I pass as white, but I have a par name that no non-Spanish-speakers ever get right on the first try, and that people seem to have trouble learning even when making an honest effort. It’s a mild annoyance and my family loves to snark at people for being uncultured, but it’s really not worth making into a big deal for me.
¿Que es tu nombre? Also the idea that only nonwhite people have names that are difficult to pronounce is laughably false.
Es mi apellido, entonces no voy a decirlo por el internet.
I mean, usually Polish names are taken as a stand-in example for “white people names” that are often misspelled and mispronounced.
I have a slightly uncommon German last name. It should, however, be pretty easy to just read it out for a native speaker. Or write it down when I say it. But it’s not. I’m regularly misunderstood and have to spell it out. Or listen out for variations that could plausibly be my name if somebody reads it out loud (like at the doctor’s).
This seems to happen to nearly everybody I know unless their name has been around for like a few hundred years and is 2 syllables or shorter and the person pronouncing the name is somehow related to the name-bearer by a common ancestor in the last 150 years.
By now I assume it’s part of the basic human experience for basically everybody that your name is never pronounced quite like you yourself pronounce it by basically everybody (outside of your own family and close friends). Which is why I find it so funny that tumblr seems to think this experience is only suffered by certain minorities in the US and, as such, constitutes a failure on the part of the pronouncing party.
I have a Polish (by way of Russia) 13 letter last name, and at this point I’ve made a game of watching how people pronounce it.
Them: Kira….*reads my last name* Them: *dawning look of horror* Them: “uh…uh… [attempt at my last name that would probably be more accurate if they read out a random keyboard smash] Me: [Says it quickly and in Russian] Them: …. Me: *takes pity on them* [repeats it slowly and with my accent flattened to English]
Honestly, I collect mispronunciations of my last name, it’s a point of pride by now.
My solution to name issues:
– get a first name English-speakers can understand
– get a last name that doesn’t even exist so there is no right or wrong way to pronounce it
Monty Hall, except Omega replaced the car with a million dollars if it predicts you won’t switch doors
then you open the door and BOOM it’s a fuckin’ trolley
Omega Hall Trolley Problem
Before the Problem begins, Omega uses godlike predictive power to find out whether you are a Switcher or a Stayer. Omega presents you with three doors. Two of the doors, if picked, will cause a trolley is to run over five people. Behind the third door, there is another trolley. -If Omega predicted you are a Switcher, it will run over ten people. -If Omega predicted you are a Stayer, it will run over one person.
Having picked a door, Omega now reveals that one of the doors you didn’t pick would have been a Five-Person door.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a badder guy with a gun.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a bad guy with a bigger gun.
The only thing that can stop a nice guy with a gun is the friend zone, apparently.
The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is agents of the state monopoly on legitimate violence, who have legitimate-violence-guns.
If guns are outlawed by the state asserting a monopoly on the use of force, then only outlaws and agents of the state whose sworn duty is to oppose outlaws will have guns.
If states are outlawed, only outlaws will have states
who’s going to stop ‘em tho
I’m here to ask you a question. What can stop a bad guy with a gun?
“A good gal with a gun,”say the constitutionally gender-balanced pair of spokespersons from Al-Qamishli,“and the fact that she is not alone, as everyone else too has been trained in enforcing the maintenance of a positive social order so that they don’t need a specific class of agents of the state to do it for them and also rob them because nobody can stop the agents of the state.”
“The fact that the existence of institutions to solve that problem is economically efficient and thus the institutions will exist,”says the man from Santa Clara.“In addition, the existence of institutions to solve the free-rider problem one would naively expect in the previous institutions is also economically efficient and thus such institutions will also exist.”
“A welfare society,”says the woman from Stockholm."Early intervention into the factors that make people bad in the first place, because extremely few people are actually born bad, and most badness is actually the product of environmental conditions pulling people’s levers in a way that makes them act destructively, and thus acting early to stop the process and redirect people into more pro-social paths is far more productive than trying to figure out what to do when the guy has become bad and obtained a gun.”
“A well-regulated militia,”says the man from Philadelphia,“being necessary to the security of a free State…”
#decolonizeyourtastebuds there is no such thing as israeli food, there isn’t even just one blanket term for Palestinian foods, like every other country it’s always region specific
Israel taking traditional Palestinian food and claiming it as their own is 100% an act of erasure and violence. they are quite literally trying to usurp Palestine’s land, history and now even their culture it’s evil.
One of the considerable components to genocide is cultural genocide where the persecuting party attempts to remove cultural significance from territories occupied. This is 100% an example of that.
You can look in an Israeli cookbook and find meals from every continent. They’re stealing from everyone.
I spy three goyim with no understanding of Jewish history or culture
Which is ironic because many of your families’ countries are probably the cause of Israel having such a diverse cuisine…. That’s diasporic violence for you!
Me personally, I commented solely on the Israeli cookbook I chanced upon that literally stated the country of origin of every meal, none of which were Israel. I’m not denying existence of Israel, and I’m not being anti Semitic. Don’t blow everything out of proportion.
You’re literally calling us thieves of cultures from around the world? The Jewish diaspora is worldwide. There are Jews in China, in the Middle East, India, Africa, Latin America… We were forced out of many of those countries where we had lived for perhaps thousands of years and took our cuisines with us, to Israel. Over 50% of Israel’s population is Mizrahi. We’re not “taking traditional Palestinian food” or committing genocide. It’s our cultures we’re continuing. We’re not stealing, stop playing robbed Cossack.
& I never accused you of denying Israel’s existence.
See when goyim say Jews stole the culture what they really mean is:
“those fucking Jews couldn’t just die no they had to keep living and blend their Jewynes with the places they’ve been and been chased out of. Why can’t they just fucking die already.”
I mean, I constantly hear the bullshit that “Jews are appropriating middle eastern food and culture”, but how do you repeat something like “Jews steal culture from all around the world” and still think you’re anything but a vile Jew-hater?
Yeah, I was wondering how long it’s going to take people to start accusing us of stealing schnitzels.
Americans better stop eating hamburgers and pizza…
Guys, let’s try this all over again: Many Israeli Jews are from communities that traditionally cooked Middle Eastern foods.
These foods took off with other Israelis because they are made from local ingredients, suit the climate, and taste good. (Also because Yemenite immigrants in the early 20th century apparently managed to launch a whole felafel industry.) Things like hummus have now been eaten by all Israelis for at least three generations or so.
Other Israelis have roots in communities that cooked other stuff. Sometimes they make this stuff too.
None of this is hard to understand.
what do people expect? jews who returned or were born there or live outside israel or whatever should just eat tasteless gruel made of psyllium husk and oat bran, to make sure no one’s appropriating moroccan/ukrainian/yemenite/spanish/whatever food?
i mean, i guess if jews just stopped eating that would solve the problem of jews existing. wait… ah, now i get it. it would be better if we just didn’t exist, wouldn’t it?
did u know that… copying not-copyrighted things and then citing your sources is stealing?
Like, hot dogs are from Germany and pizza is from Italy, and yet you could make an “American food” cookbook that included both of those.
There is nothing new under the sun, all work is derivative, etc.
EURASIANS STOP EATING POTATOES RIGHT NOW YESTERDAY
