tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post6206794908555515047..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Two Unrelated ThingsAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-58534967547973255482015-07-05T21:54:28.621-04:002015-07-05T21:54:28.621-04:00James, that deserves a wider audience than my comm...James, that deserves a wider audience than my comment section. I think you should work up that concept of new ancestors.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-50692363616627148692015-07-05T21:13:20.713-04:002015-07-05T21:13:20.713-04:00Maybe the trick to surviving the "privilege&q...Maybe the trick to surviving the "privilege" accusations is to acquire some new ancestors.<br /><br />"<br />GENERAL: Why do I sit here? To escape from the pirates' clutches, I described myself as an orphan; and, heaven help me, I am no orphan! I come here to humble myself before the tombs of my ancestors, and to implore their pardon for having brought dishonour on the family escutcheon.<br /><br />FREDERIC: But you forget, sir, you only bought the property a year ago, and the stucco on your baronial castle is scarcely dry.<br /><br />GENERAL: Frederic, in this chapel are ancestors: you cannot deny that. With the estate, I bought the chapel and its contents. I don't know whose ancestors they were, but I know whose ancestors they are, and I shudder to think that their descendant by purchase (if I may so describe myself) should have brought disgrace upon what, I have no doubt, was an unstained escutcheon.<br />"jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54422700966999037692015-07-05T20:04:06.895-04:002015-07-05T20:04:06.895-04:00Few other cultures have appropriated the foods of ...Few other cultures have appropriated the foods of my ancestors. Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-39956631456684440062015-07-05T19:36:32.896-04:002015-07-05T19:36:32.896-04:00Sam - it's true and we know intent isn't m...Sam - it's true and we know intent isn't magic. I remember when the AVI blog used to be a safe space. Now he just needs to check his privilege and decolonize his potato salad.bs kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02871717971078952304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-63640622671929172812015-07-05T18:18:49.085-04:002015-07-05T18:18:49.085-04:00I appreciate your intention in informing me of &qu...I appreciate your intention in informing me of "Everything's A Problem", but dammit, man, that's a microaggression itself!Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com