Nice Planet 18: Welcome To Our Planet. Sorry It's So Messed Up.

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To be fair she said in an interview she did it to highlight how easy it is to fool people via social media.

[Handyman]

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If I cant trust randos in Instagram what is this world coming too???

[aparch]

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Here's a light hearted story about how you should never 100% trust the internet.

Instagram 'influencer' posts photos from her trip to Bali. In reality, the photos were taken in an afternoon at her neighborhood Ikea.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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India again? Noooo

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-51590690

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Good friend of mine that I met after moving here hasn't lived in India for 15 years. Still had an arranged marriage and the wedding last October was complete Bollywood.

[Kepler]

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India has always been like that. I have a (white, American) coworker who married an Indian woman, and according to him she's no longer on speaking terms with her father because she refused to let him traditionally arrange a marriage to a man within her caste or religious faith.

It's a mix. We have a friend who is an Indian Muslim whose family is liberated from that nonsense. They gave her sister (also in America) sh-t because she married a Muslim guy for love when she could have had a Jewish neurosurgeon from Hopkins.

However, her Mom is mystified why our friend is 40 and unmarried. Not angry, just perplexed. It's adorable -- never even enters her pretty little head.

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India has taken one of the most visible steps backward of any country the last ten plus years.

Though I’m sure 99% of that is because it’s being covered now. I imagine it was probably much better than it was but still miles away from even having a shred of respectability. It’s so gross how they treat women there. (Probably all minorities and poor people.)

India has always been like that. I have a (white, American) coworker who married an Indian woman, and according to him she's no longer on speaking terms with her father because she refused to let him traditionally arrange a marriage to a man within her caste or religious faith.

[Kepler]

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India has taken one of the most visible steps backward of any country the last ten plus years.

The US called...

[dxmnkd316]

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India has taken one of the most visible steps backward of any country the last ten plus years.

Though I’m sure 99% of that is because it’s being covered now. I imagine it was probably much better than it was but still miles away from even having a shred of respectability. It’s so gross how they treat women there. (Probably all minorities and poor people.)

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

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I hope I never, ever step foot in India

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-51504992

[MissThundercat]

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Thanks to corruption from the board and CEO, Medicaid medical/dental clinic shuts down suddenly, displacing 20,000 patients.

I was a patient at said clinic. I need to find a new doctor starting Monday, and hope like hell I can get my refills and records transferred ASAP.

[The Rube]

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You should listen to the full quote. He said you should never call someone the n-word and that doing so would be despicable. He was saying you can't say it as part of a conversation. I honestly can't think of what conversation that would be, but I think it's fair to give the quote some context.

This is a really good book on the subject. Written by a black legal scholar with degrees from Harvard and Yale. Replaced the starred out part with the, ahem, word in question.
https://www.amazon.com/******-Strang.../dp/0375713719

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You should listen to the full quote. He said you should never call someone the n-word and that doing so would be despicable. He was saying you can't say it as part of a conversation. I honestly can't think of what conversation that would be and in the end it's a failed complaint regardless.

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

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Dennis Prager complains "the Left has made it impossible to say the N-word any longer," adding "It is idiotic you cannot say the N-word. Idiotic" pic.twitter.com/Gd012Dw2ZD

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) February 13, 2020

Not true. You just have to be approved

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Dennis Prager complains "the Left has made it impossible to say the N-word any longer," adding "It is idiotic you cannot say the N-word. Idiotic" pic.twitter.com/Gd012Dw2ZD

— Jason Campbell (@JasonSCampbell) February 13, 2020

Holy ****! I mean, there's conservative whining about 'PC', and then there's this.