Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

@lispi314 @Amikke @lucifargundam @fluffy @Archivist Sure, but drywall nails are much easier to remove and patch between tenants.

@lucifargundam @Amikke @fluffy @Archivist That's what happens in a country with unaffordable housing and no public option. 🤷‍♂️

@Amikke @lucifargundam @fluffy @Archivist Right, but usually those are mobile homes, which of course are built to shitty standards.

@Amikke @lucifargundam @fluffy @Archivist Honestly, that material is almost never used for exterior walls in America. You try to punch an exterior wall, your hand will be broken. We only use the cheap stuff on the inside.

@Amikke @lucifargundam @fluffy @Archivist We use brick all the time for exterior walls; just not so much for interior. The benefit there is that it's much easier to add insulation between the layers, easier to run plumbing/electric behind drywall, and it's easier to drive nails in for hanging things.

My house, in hurricane country, is made primarily of cinder block exterior with wood-framed gypsum board interior.

@Amikke To be fair, we only started making them out of cardboard after we stopped making them with asbestos. Older buildings here still have the stronger cancery ones.

@AncientGood No, you can't change the past. But you also can't improve the future by ignoring the past.

There are three types of people in the world:
1) Those that are on top, in part due to institutional inequality, who actively work to maintain that status quo by dividing folks. These are the folks we traditionally think of as "racists" or "bigots". They're pretty few and far between at this point, but they do exist and they do push policy.
2) People who benefit from institutional inequalities without realizing it work to maintain the status quo because they're ignorant of the damage it causes. These people would never use the n-word, and would probably think less of those who do, because they don't consider themselves to be racist. But they still, through their ignorance, prop up a system that perpetuates racism. This group includes probably a solid majority of white Americans.
3) People who are aware of the inequalities present in the system, who seek to limit or eliminate the bias that causes those inequalities. While I agree that some go too far (like the Mark Twain example), and others use misguided methods like tone-policing, most of us seek only to bring the facts to light to make other people aware of these systemic inequalities. Simple awareness is a huge first step, and that awareness is (or was) known by the moniker "woke" before that became co-opted as a slur by the first group.

And that last example is pretty key. All you have to do is look at how the word "woke" has been weaponized to see that these words are not ancient history. They're still an active part of the fabric of our society that keeps minorities down.

So, do some people take this ideology too far? Yes, of course. But given that they're fighting against a system that has held them and their family back for generations, can you really blame them?

@annmlipton Holy shit