I hate that this level of irony won’t really be appreciated because people no longer know what irony is

(Yes, we were wrong)

If you don’t see this question and think, “honestly, it’s a blip. I think Latin music is on its way out,” we can’t be friends

Only 39? Sucker

deliberate dismantling/deprofessionalization/oppression to kill something and install a different system or culture in its place (cf public schools and what politicians and oligarchs do to them)

run a workplace that chooses to be different and constantly push against the hegemonic norms -- or, in some cases, it takes

Before you @ me, no, not literally every single place is always those things all the time, but those are the cultures that most often prevail in those spaces because those are the cultures that built those spaces in a lot of cases, so it takes very deliberate and active praxis to

A few examples of the cultures informing workplaces:
Corporations are WASPy.
Public schools are collectivist and very early 20th century, pre-elevation-to-whiteness Jewish/Irish/Italian-coded.
The fitness industry is prosperity gospel-infused evangelical.

You should strive to unpack your norms and identify them as the hegemonic forces they are and then be better at accepting "outsiders" and let them change your norms to be more fair and welcoming to all.

don't owe you a personality change.

Your workplace is not neutral; it is limiting and oppressive when it demands that people from a background that doesn't match the workplace's base culture change their entire way of being. Their personality is also culturally informed and valid.

Jesus, DESESPERADAMENTE. Anyway. I don't think I knew how pronouns worked in English OR Spanish the first time I heard the song, so I made it "I need you green"

I cannot believe how many novels I read that are infuriating to my inner ear because of that mismatch. Do you not have ears or do you not care? I cannot think of a third option here and I need to know the reasoning

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