I think in terms of mutable and immutable characteristics.

We can choose to have integrity, dignity, honesty-- things he chooses not to. We can’t choose our ethnicity, surname at birth, bone structure, childhood hardship.

People find it acceptable to make fun of people doing things they don’t like by transferring to things they don’t understand or don’t regularly encounter.

The innocent here are people with a name like Ramaswamy, but who are just trying to be normal decent people, trying to avoid drawing attention to their ‘unusual’ sounding name.

Think about some feature of yourself that’s unusual but immediately apparent. I have a large facial mole, for instance. Think about how it sucks when people put down that feature for no good reason. It fucking sucks. Then try to imagine: the thing that’s unusual is something everyone in your family, or your community, or your culture, possesses. Maybe it’s even a source of dignity and pride. But most of the majority culture doesn’t understand or regularly encounter it, so it’s just a joke.

Please don’t

He’s a piece of shit, but calling Ramaswamy “Ramalamadingdong” kind of gross to me.

www.cnn.com/2023/08/21/us/…/index.html

Ikeguchi had torn down the flag and yelled “many homophobic slurs” toward Carleton, and Ikeguchi shot Carleton when she confronted him, Sheriff Shannon Dicus said. Ikeguchi had also made “several disparaging remarks” about the flag before shooting Carleton, the sheriff’s office said in a news release.

This was the first link on Google, fyi

Or throughput, which is important in areas with congestion, like busy streets and highways.

It probably was at some scale, but it’s just not attested. And it certainly wasn’t the entire nation..

The Babylonian exile on the other hand is attested. That was more like a royal hostage situation than slavery though, the Babylonians sacked Jerusalem and took the nobility back with them.

That was one that you can just tell was a very highly contested script that just kept getting rewritten again and again by writers with very different sensibilities. The core idea is great, but man is the execution uneven

I call this Machinical Turking