I was going to bring in something I saw in a different thread but then I noticed you were already there.

You seem convinced that "leaders" are necessarily authoritarian. I do not believe that, so there's not going to be much point to this.

Especially with an hour time limit. I've come back to replies from 3, 4, 5 hours ago and I'm on here pretty regularly.

Do you take charge in effecting political/societal change for yourself (and your community)?

Or do you disagree with the other guy's requirements for what constitutes someone who does not want to be led?

You kinda just said "no."

Censoring expletives is dumb. But I don't have a problem with hiding names of non-celebrities who aren't spouting hate.

Who is "they"? Who are you talking about and how are you certain that's who OP is talking about?

That is the quote that I've heard. I wonder if they were trying to make a point by tweaking the quote, although I'm not clear about what that would be

I'm going to assume, against reason, thwt this comment is not made in bad faith.

The racism is in the action and the intention. You can jork to whoever you like but going out of your way to replace depictions you don't like is weird. This isn't a case of some guy making a pin-up of a woman he finds attractive. It isn't a remix: the edit has the same clothes (what little there are) and the same tattoos. So the statement is "I want this same person but I want them white."

Even replacing the ethnicity with an entirely new character would be weird, but the direct ethnicity edit cannot be anything but offensive in intention.

The world of (Western) representation has been overwhelming White. Racism isn't just prejudice: it is prejudice that is empowered and entrenched by systems, both legal and cultural. The removal of a non-white character to instead endorse yet another white model (whose features are inline with the archetypal Aryan of White supremacist fascination, e.g., blonde, straight-haired and blue-eyed) is a minor salve to a system that is being stressed by a slow cultural push towards equal representation. And, yes, a sexy lady with dark skin for a video game can be representation but I don't have the will now to get into the "why."

A cow can trample you, and a herd can absolutely stampede, if you agitate them enough.

They probably think the "cattle" will tire themselves out with revolution after a decade or so, and then they can reemerge to retake the reins of society.

It doesn't make the most sense but these people have more money than sense, almost definitionally.

red eyed man

Sclera or iris?

"More baggy" is more likely "baggier", seeking to highlight the racist assumption that black people where baggier clothes.

I'm not in the therapy, psychology, or rehabilitation spaces, so I don't even know how you'd deprogram all those kids who are mentally fucked right now, from Zionist indoctrination. You can't just break up Israel because then you'd have a bunch of racist sleeper agents with a grudge against the world.

And that's just writing off the adults as a lost cause

The only other answer depends on where you[impersonal] lie on the topic of governance. Because you'd need some kind of overarching organization to feed mediating/moderating media to the population (trying to sidestep the word "propaganda" although that is what it would be).

Either the population becomes smart enough to ameliorate unreasoned shifts in culture on an individual basis or the populace entrusts that responsibility to someone over them.

In-line edit: I guess there is also the possibility of a sort of "herd immunity", where enough educated individuals are countering misinformation and overreactions in their community to achieve the same effect.

We're all just spitballing here unless someone is secretly a sociologist, but I do think social media accelerates cultural swings/overcompensations. Social media, and its focus on appearances, encourages a low-specificity sorta purity testing. If you aren't visibly conforming, at the very least you'll be inundated with media of how "this" is the correct thing. And that's assuming you aren't actively harangued by people pushing conformity. So "the correct thing" gets positively reinforced and quickly builds momentum.

I think the only recourse is educating people to not just absorb everything their eyes and ears ingest, i.e. critical thinking. Which doesn't seem feasible without a revamp of education.

Kill 14 more dragons and sell of their scales amd bones.

This requires at least 75 in Speech and many of the perks.

"Dead inside"

NOT Thu'um-in

Sure thing, buddy. You're keeping that achievement locked.

I think the consideration is that, in moving away from the mandatory hustle "culture"/grind, care is taken not to stigmatize it for the people for whom it is a desirable lifestyle. Culture has a way of overcorrecting.

Roger from American Dad?

It is impossible to intuit, but you just introduce "pair of pants" as the singular article. Thus, two pants are "two pairs of pants."

Why didn't my parents let me eat success?! It's a vital component of a growing boy's diet!