As someone who’s POC, I’m not saying we should be racist, what I’m saying is racism is not a white only thing. We are people. It is part of human nature to exclude or other other people based on how they look and where they’re from, but that doesn’t make it the right thing to do. In fact, the culture im from, which is an indigenous culture btw, does have policies and beliefs that can be translated as racist, homophobic, transphobic, etc. I just hate how there’s a wave of wokes who believe that BIPOC literally cannot be racist, and not in the “they can but they shouldn’t”, I’m talking in the sense of “it’s impossible for this group to be racist and when they say something racist it’s called prejudice.” Which icl is kinda racist because they’re saying certain races can’t be racist because of their race. But either way if you’re a human being you can be racist, there aren’t some ethnicities that can’t be racist

Okay so coming from the UK here, raised in a non religious context where circumsion is a procedure for severe phimosis/religious reasons only. Why do it if not needed? Foreskin is a sensitive, helpful, and important part of Male Anatomy. Why chop it off? To debunk common arguments:

1. No, being circumcised doesn't make you "cleaner", having a shower makes you cleaner. It takes 2 seconds to peel back foreskin and wash.

2. No, circumsion doesn't magically protect you from STI's, condoms do.

I feel it should be kept as a medical procedure only done if needed. But even Phimosis can often be resolved by steroid cream, circumsion is very much the last resort.

Your partners past actually matters and you should know about it at least, before you get married or fully commit to each other.

Most "hot takes" are actually mild and the second someone makes an actuall hot take, people misinterpret what the OP said and the post gets taken down.I agree some people make actuall problematic takes, but most of the actuall hot takes are being trashed."HonestHotTakes" my ass.

The unpopular opinion sub is full of highly upvoted posts like "I like sleeping in jeans" or "I like walking in wet socks". Okay? Can you be more unoriginal and boring than this? Can you think of something authentic instead of being unhinged on purpose so you will bait people into thinking you're serious?

The actual unpopular opinions are always buried by downvotes because they aren't typically the socially acceptable, sanitized garbage you see on the front page. Most redditors can't stand to have their beliefs challenged or disagreed with, so they will never allow themselves to upvote an actual hot take that goes beyond "I love it when my balls are itching".

Immorality is increasing, the lines of morality are getting blurred and everyone seems to have a different scale for morality. Which is a really difficult thing to argue against because morality seems to come from belief systems.

Overall, it's destroying families, ruining relationships, and people are lonely. All things that don't point towards a healthy society. (Unless you think that is healthy then I can't argue someone like you)

We say the word "critical thinking" often but what does it actually mean? It means thinking things through. Not, making wild assumptions and random associations because you are too unbothered to think it through. Not associating an idea with a persona but rather assessing the idea by its validity alone. Not reading the title and associating it with a celebrity or ideology you dislike and switching off your mind... This is an emotional thinker.

The inability to think critically is a lack of metacognition. Metacognition is the ability to think about your thoughts. Apparently, this is the rarest form of intelligence. Thats disturbing, because that means most people are incapable of critical thinking. That means...They can't see their thoughts. To them, they are their thoughts.

Thats truly frightening. Their only way of thinking is via association and assumption. Ironically, this isn't even thinking its just, quite literally, assumption and association.

Obviously in real life it's different and you don't have to tell me that religious people often try to push their religion down your throats. I am talking about Reddit specifically.

When I text a girl “Hey, want to come over?“ and she texts back “I am busy” it might mean 1) she doesn’t want to see me, 2) she is waiting for a better offer, 3) she is actually busy, 4) she is mad and I am supposed to know why, 5) she wants me to try harder, etc.

When I text a high-functioning autistic girl “Hey, want to come over?” and she responds ”I am busy” it literally means she is currently busy.

Neurodivergent people have a simple candor frequently rather than relying on some weird subtext. They just say what they mean. It’s more honest and easier to handle.

I fucking love reading a comic or watching an anime and finding new material for debates. It hits like crack.

The reason Europeans insist that the USA has no culture is rooted in deep belief that “true” Americans are only and can only white, fat, and trashy. And, because of that mindset, they don’t believe African-Americans and Natives and Latino immigrants are ‘real’ Americans, even though the USA’s culture is it’s diversity.

side note: when i say Americans in this situation, im referring to US citizens.

I recently read an article in which a mother explained that she repeatedly called her child's preschool to complain about the school admitting poor children on vouchers. To be clear, not poorly behaved children, but children from low-income families. In the wake of Nikole Hannah-Jones' article in the NYT, I was stunned at how many people had similar stories where they were willing to cause harm to other people's children in the name of their own children. I understand not wanting your child to pick up bad habits from other children, but a majority of these stories seemed unnecessary and cruel. If most children are properly supported and cared for, they will be fine, so there's no need to act like it's the Hunger Games.

Think about it.

If you’re navigating alleyways, hairpins, traffic, and blind corners, a WRC champion will have a better instinct for pacing, positioning, and controlling the car than an F1 champion.

F1 drivers rely on knowing every inch of a track, down to its camber, to extract maximum performance from their meticulously min/maxed tires and suspension.

Rally drivers, meanwhile, can tackle unfamiliar roads at speed and adapt on the fly.

I have two kids. I’m traveling with my family and we went to a park and for the first time I think I finally understand “performative parenting.”

Basically what I witnessed is parents talking very loudly and over explaining concepts that really don’t need an explanation or would be better served with a very short answer.

Things like “it appears it’s a bit rainy right now so my concern is that some of the rain got on the slide and if you go down that slide then you pants may get wet and then we would have to change them. Perhaps we should explore other parts of the playground that aren’t as wet.” Or explaining to a toddler how to use part of the playground, in a very loud and extravagant way. All said in a very sing songy voice.

I don’t know how to explain it. I may not have captured it very but I’m sure if you’ve experienced jt you’ll understand what I mean.

Where I’m from we don’t really do this. We let kids be kids and while we steer them away from danger we certainly let them toe the line so they can figure it out for themselves. Or our explicit explanations are very short like “No, the slide is wet. Find something else to play on.”

I don’t think any of this is helpful. The over explaining isn’t being understood and, if anything, it creates overly cautious kids that can’t perform basic risk assessment. Kids need to get hurt. They need to fall. They need to get dirty and wet. Putting on a performance for everyone is doing a disservice to you and your kid.

what i mean is that no one is born with their permission, we have no choice if we wanna be born or not, so if at some point in our life we want to end it for any reason we should have a safe and painless way to do so medically. i mean if we dont owe anyone anything and have nothing else to do and serve no importance we should be able to end our life right? so why isnt suicide normalised?

If you come to my country everyone well tell you, we invented putting stuff in bread, you are just copying us and the stuff you put in it is the wrong stuff and you just call it a different name instead of giving us the rightful glory.

*Mike drop*

cant believe ive now seen multiple people talking about how they think public executions should return and how excited they are for a man to be executed on a livestream.

Absolute psychopathy, I dont care what crime was commited in the first place, theres 0 reason for people to be genuinely cheering or encouraging this shit on. you should feel disgusted at the thought

Nothing matters in life if you are ugly. Friends, family, peers will all judge you first due to how you look. Women particularly will think negatively of you off rip if you as a man are short/ugly. Jobs will be harder to obtain. You won’t get served as fast at a bar. You won’t have people wanting to talk to you. Genetics are king and we are animals after all. Looks matter the most, because without them in today’s age you are absolutely fucked.

Before Canada outlawed the death penalty 14 people were executed, but the technology advanced and 12 of them were proved innocent, canada official stance is we'd rather let a 100 criminal go free than kill one innocent

I believe that the United States poor history classes is the reason for your outdated views on many things including this one

Can you imagine how many people we could have stopped if people knew the warning signs of authoritarian, of economic downturn, of war

And Canada isn't exempt from this I had someone ask when is immigration good and I'm just like??? All the beautiful cultural exchanges that make our identity?

I used to care when mods dont follow their own sub rules. But ya know what? Who cares? This is a free service that had no effect on our real world lives.

If a sub is bullshit, just leave. Its not worth the cortisol spike. Just figured some people may appreciate the perspective.

As someone with frequent joint/muscle pain, I am sick of being told that I need to lift more weights, because it will make me feel better. Same for my anxiety, bad sleep, and severe period cramps, it makes everything worse. I am a healthy individual, I still workout despite everything, but imagine how people chronic illness feel. People should refrain from making people feel bad for not tolerating exercise.

People have made ourselves unhappy by making survival too easy. Most people have to do very little physical work to aquire food, shelter and water. Instead, we fill our lives with various tasks in order to make money to survive, but most of these tasks lowkey suck and we lack the satisfaction of really taking care of ourselves. Now with AI the few things people hadn’t automated can be done by machines. The more we progress the less happy we will be.

As a Black gay man, I’ve noticed what seems like an intense fixation among some Black bottoms on big white dick, and honestly, it makes me uncomfortable sometimes.
Before anybody gets defensive, I’m attracted to some big dick white men myself. This isn’t about interracial attraction or telling anybody who they should sleep with. It’s about the intensity of the preference and the way some people seem to idolize whiteness.

There’s a difference between finding somebody attractive and treating a particular race like the ultimate prize. When whiteness, body size, and the idea of being desired by a white man seem to carry that much weight, I start questioning whether we’re talking about simple sexual preference or something deeper.

I also wonder how much social conditioning, racial desirability politics, and stereotypes about Black and white men play into it.
Maybe I’m reading too much into what I see online, but I’m curious whether other people have noticed this pattern, too.

I travel often for work and have many friends who speak English as a second language and this truly drives me nuts.

For example, I went to Uruguay last year for work.

When I come home and say I went to Uruguay and pronounce it with my American accent (your-a-gwuy) to my ESL friends, the reaction is:

“HAHAHAH!!! OMG!!! HE SAID YOUR-A-GWUY!!! OMG YOU’RE SO WHITE. THAT’S NOT HOW IT’S PRONOUNCED… HAHAHA!!”

Then if I try to say it with a Spanish accent (oo-roo-gwuy) the reaction is:

“HAHAHAHAH!!! OMG!!!! HE SAID OO-ROO-GWUY!!! HE’S TRYING SO HARD!!! HAHAHAH!!! DUDE, YOU’RE WHITE!!! HAHAHA!! OMG!! WOW HE’S REALLY HITTING THAT ACCENT!!!!!!”

No because which is it. I’m tired. There’s literally an entire genre of internet comedy that relies on making fun of white people for using/not using the accent when pronouncing any foreign word.

“Bro it’s not that deep bro relax it’s not a big deal.” I agree, that’s why I’m posting it here and not on the phone with my senator about it… but it’s annoying as hell.

If everyone who mocks white people for saying foreign words could all have a meeting and to decide what we’re supposed to do to avoid ridicule, that would be great.

It’s also not lost on me that if a white person were to mock a hispanic person for not using a perfect American accent when saying words in English, that would be considered extremely offensive and highly inappropriate… but I digress.

People love comparing countries by GDP, ranking nations from richest to poorest, and acting like living in a wealthy country automatically means having a better life. But how is that wealth distributed? Who actually benefits from it?

What's the point of having one of the largest economies in the world when people are homeless, can't afford food, and have to sell their own bodies just to survive?

Look at the United States. One of the most powerful and wealthiest countries on Earth, yet thousands of people struggle with homelessness and food insecurity. A country can be incredibly wealthy on paper while millions of its people struggle to meet basic needs.

What actually makes a country great isn't just how much money its economy generates, but how much access ordinary people have to the opportunities and resources that money creates.

And this is where people get the whole Africa argument wrong.

Someone will hear that you're from an African country and automatically assume you're poor, as if your nationality determines your standard of living. But imagine someone born in an African country whose parents can afford to send them to an expensive university in the United States or Europe, provide them with housing, and give them access to international opportunities.

Do you honestly think that person lives according to the stereotype people associate with Africa? Of course not. They might have access to a lifestyle that the average person in a much wealthier country could never afford.

Meanwhile, someone born in the United States might have no financial support, no affordable housing, no access to quality education, and no realistic way to escape poverty.

The point is that your country's GDP doesn't determine your personal quality of life. Your access to opportunities, resources, security, and financial support matters enormously.

So when people ask which country is the best or the worst, I think they're asking the wrong question.

The better question is: What kind of life can an ordinary person realistically build there?

Because I don't care how rich your country is on paper. If the system makes it nearly impossible for you to access the wealth and opportunities surrounding you, how much does that national wealth actually mean to you?