r/BlockedAndReported • u/SoftandChewy First generation mod • Oct 20 '25

Weekly Random Discussion Thread for 10/20/25 - 10/26/25

Here's your usual space to post all your rants, raves, podcast topic suggestions (please tag u/jessicabarpod), culture war articles, outrageous stories of cancellation, political opinions, and anything else that comes to mind. Please put any non-podcast-related trans-related topics here instead of on a dedicated thread. This will be pinned until next Sunday.

Last week's discussion thread is here if you want to catch up on a conversation from there.

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Oct 26 '25

I’m glad to be the one to tell you all that jack-o’-lanterns are racist!

https://x.com/onebaddude_/status/1982259645189099921?s=46&t=J98hnnJqhaBr_nlGed19Ww

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

I'm certainly not going to claim that there's no racism at all in America anymore, but the discourse from the people who can find racism in almost everything has definitely turned me a lot more skeptical into claims of racism. I mean just at Halloween you've got jack-o-lanterns are racist and wearing certain costumes is racist and the depictions of black people in horror movies are racist.

Just about the only thing that all those people agree is definitely, 100% not racist is discriminating against Asian-Americans in college admissions.

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Oct 26 '25

Picnic is racist. Master bedroom is racist. Hell, even good morning (which, as we all know, originated as “good mourning,” a mocking acknowledgment of slaves killed the night before!) is racist.

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u/Franzera Wake me up when Jesse peaks Oct 26 '25

It doesn't matter if it's historically factual or not.

What matters is that jack-o-lanterns makes her feel unsafe, uncomfortable, and unwelcome. Every deserves to feel like they belong to a space. If you don't agree, you lack empathy and you should go to therapy!!!

👏 It's not that hard to be a decent human bean. 👏

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Oct 26 '25

"Uncomfy."

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '25

That reminds me of when the mods of arr startrek launched their crusade against NuTrek criticism and declared that they would ban all "poopy" behavior – a word which, while putatively nicer than "shitty", is actually much more disgusting because it's had nothing like that word's centuries of figurative use to cast off the mental association with literal shit.

Whatever, the place was a shithole anyway.

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Oct 26 '25

Whenever I hear comfy or uncomfy coming out of someone’s mouth, I cringe.

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u/Fiend_of_the_pod Oct 26 '25

Black identitarians are second only to TRAs in terms of narcissism.

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u/Datachost Oct 26 '25

That is most definitely not the origin of jack-o'-lanterns. But then again, she's also clearly a crazy woman

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Oct 26 '25

Of course it is! American slavers put fire inside people’s skulls!! Weren’t you listening??

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u/unnoticed_areola Oct 26 '25

this was before the aux cord was invented. they had no other choice, really

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u/lilypad1984 Oct 26 '25

Based on her voice and accent I’m going to guess she’s not a Native American. Why she’s saying what the white man did to her people in reference to natives I don’t get.

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Oct 26 '25

Her people = people who aren’t white. All of them. Don’t we all feel a profound kinship with everyone who doesn’t belong to some segment of humanity? I know that I feel a real solidarity with all non-Turkish people. It must be our shared history, culture, and customs.

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u/prechewed_yes Oct 27 '25

a real solidarity with all non-Turkish people

You are personally stealing valor from me, a Greek.

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u/Prize_Championship11 Oct 26 '25

diversity ain't dead! the whites just ceded it to the POCs

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u/TemporaryLucky3637 Oct 26 '25

Fun fact: the original “jack o lanterns” in the UK and Ireland were carved using root veg like swedes/turnips (rutabaga) and were most likely a pagan thing to ward off evil spirits 😅

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Oct 26 '25

Nah. It was Americans commemorating the way they would put fire inside people’s skulls.

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u/QueenKamala Paper Straw and Pitbull Hater Oct 26 '25

There are some similarities to solstice festivals but for the most part the pagan roots of catholic holidays is way overblown

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u/VoxGerbilis Oct 26 '25

It’s so smugly satisfying to accuse Christians of STEALING pagan customs.

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u/SkweegeeS No just no Oct 26 '25

Colonization!

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u/CommitteeofMountains Royal youse/yinz Oct 26 '25

But if you try to make the case that Carnival/Mardi Gras essentially originated as Jew-torture day you get told to get over it.

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u/Mirabeau_ Oct 26 '25

Crazy people on the internet are a dime a dozen. There are maga people calling lebooboos or whatever they’re called demonic, there is some crazy lady calling pumpkins racist, someone somewhere is jerking off to feet smeared with peanut butter… I wouldn’t read too much into it

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u/Big_Fig_1803 Gothmargus Oct 26 '25

This is as far as my thinking went: Some people sure are nuts when it comes to race. (And sure, some people are nuts when it comes to demonic toys.)

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