sempersigh [he/him]

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Cake day: 2020年8月12日

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  • Just got through airport security and unfortunately I had to go home using an airport that just got an infusion of ice agents.

    From what I understood previously, the ice guys were just going to be watching the areas where people leave the secure gate areas, but I can report that the ice guys at this airport are actually checking people’s passports/IDs where the TSA guy normally does it, and I even saw one helping put people’s bags on the conveyor belt.

    When your ID/boarding pass is checked, normally you can do this as a group, but they separated me from my girlfriend, forcing me into a security line without her, which was pretty enraging. I had a hard time holding my tongue, and my heart rate was going crazy.(Oh, and they’re all armed still, btw.)

    For this and a host of other reasons, maybe don’t fly right now folks!



  • I mean technically there’s nothing wrong with using it. In modern Hebrew and Yiddish it simply means “non Jew.” The thing is, for a while, the overwhelming majority of people using it online outside of Jewish communities were 4chan pol types, so it was kind of suspect to see it.

    The stormfront/pol crowd sees the word in the same way transphobes see the word “cis” in that it was some kind of slur Jews were referring to gentiles as, when in fact the word is simply neutral and is only a pejorative in context