It’s literally what the song says. On the first day, I got a partridge in a pear tree. On the second day, I got 2 turtle doves and a partridge in a pair tree.

If you think the gifts weren’t given recursively it’s because you believe it should be that way, not because you’re paying any attention to the lyrics as they’re written.

Their formatting looked right to me on Jerboa

“You have poor reading comprehension.”

“I ain’t gonna read that.”

I encourage you to pay close attention when they start teaching the concept of comparison in 2nd grade.

The point was to shine a light on the fallacy that one person’s experience represents the whole. What else were you trying to bring to the conversation except to say, “I think Windows is fine.”

Comparing Windows to racism would sound more like, “Windows and racism are similar because…”

I also find it an inaccurate, lazy, played-out “joke” to say, “only people from x would y.” That’s an unthoughtful way to try and reduce people to your own bias and prejudice. I prefer something like, “only an idiot tries to shit on someone else and group together large swaths of humanity because they don’t understand what’s being said but they still want to to feel relevant.”

I cannot remember the last time I personally experienced racism so it must not be a real problem.

I don’t think she was incorrectly flagged. She’s not from here.

But he is a bad person.

People like that don’t deserve patience and understanding.

These black and white statements won’t do you or anyone else any good. We understand that an inconsiderate or rude act doesn’t define a person when we can believe that about ourselves and love ourselves despite our many mistakes and cringe-worthy incidents.

When we love ourselves we begin to offer others the same grace and understanding we allow ourselves. We see the myriad reasons we don’t think or act how we’d like to and realize that everyone else’s life is just as difficult and confusing, and often for reasons we’ll never see or understand.