34 Pieces Of Information That Feel Illegal To Know (New Answers)

@Moose, thanks for explaining. I never heard of Two-Spirits until now, but it sounds very similar to the Indonesian Waria. Glaad to hear that it's a marginally more widely accepted identity.

Tbh I think waria is just transgender in bahasa cause like the "wa" stands for wanita (women) and the "ria" stands for pria (man)

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As a two-spirit person, Moose does not speak for us. This identity is still under threat, just like the Waria, as are most native people who do not identify with a colonial take on gender or sexual identity. Moose actually highlights a large issue within the two-spirit and colonial queer community, by saying he cannot keep up. Well, two-spirit people culture is pre-colonial, so this isn't new. Even if new to him, there is no cause to erase our two-spirit history that many of our people died for. Never forget that 90%+ of my native people were killed due to genocide in the first few years of colonialism. That's over 55 million people, my people. Colombus cannot erase our history, neither can Moose

.....I'm just going to throw this in to the mix: Do you know Moose is American? Yes it's important for accurate information to be spread but Moose isn't spreading inaccurate info, they're just saying they're not aware of something. And when you're online you can't really expect someone to keep up with an a acronym that's specific to your continent. I've heared of two spirited but there's no way I'd know LGBT2S stood for it, especially since it uses two characters in a formula where each group only gets one character each, I'd be trying to work out what the '2' and 'S' was separately.

What is two spirit?

Also the 2 spirit people were celebrated on Canadian currency a couple years ago. I have one of the toonies saved.

Also, 2 spirit people were treasured in their tribes. They were considered wise and knowledgeable.

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i am a neanderthal and I am offended by you new humans for taking the world that was once ours. apologize rose right now. btw arent native americans just mongolians who wandered across siberia/alaska? What did you do with the real natives ha rose? :) we all got our history erased somehow. my people were slaves to the huns and had to fight the turkish invadors for thousand years. How do you think that looked like? just let it go Rose.

Dude Literally take a look at what non caucasian people have gone through and still actively go through. It's heartbreaking and horrible how many native people (and general non whites) are murdered simply for being born with a skin tone they can't do anything about it. Let it go, oSkAr

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@Moose rude! I'm two-spirit and my community deseves reprsentation. If we are going to be honest, the Americas is two-spirit land. I'm so tired of the colonial queer community passively supporting the genocide of the two-spirit community. It is time to move past the colonial queer standard of progress, because I'm one day away from calling the majority of you racist enablers or just plain racists

With the best will in the world, you are insisting a term that has ethnicity at its core be included in terminology that is focused on sexual identity. It will be difficult for the majority outside communities to get on board with if the term initially used to denote 'not straight' looks like someone's cat sat on a keyboard. If you think that is racist, it says more about you and your intolerance than it does anyone else's.

Its like most sexual and gender identities and it is not actually that difficult as it is for the use of most indigenous/aboriginal people's... It's also a term that isn't linked to hate, as most identity namesakes have been so it makes a less problematic alternative. It's for use by anyone that isn't white... Like lesbian is for use for anyone that isn't a man... "Idk maybe we should take out lesbian and gay and trans and bi and queer because not everyone can use it" (/s) Also, queer is also used to denote 'not straight'. So, yeah actually that's really racist when you try to make it racist, especially with that "looks like someone's cat sat on a keyboard" bit!

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Interesting

Imagine saying this about the categorization of the animal kingdom. From phylum to kingdom to species to race, it's completely normal to label things. Scientists and other academics have been doing it for centuries because it helps us understand our world, and ourselves, better.

Not how the logic works. In the a*s backward countries it’s all about women being used as breading mares anything else is not ok or just flat out illegal . In those places if it’s a straight coupe that can’t have kids it’s always the women who is to blame and I’m sure a husband can then leave them.

Kiddie diddlers also say love is love. Now what?

Assuming it's about penis size you may have a point but until then all tranee men can do is send their silicone babies down their Hershey Highways to keep trying to be biological women

Where the f**k are you pulling this number from?

Guessing he comes from one those 72 uneducated barbarian countries. He's just mad cuz he's a self hater. They always are when they spout insane stuff. My fave is the ones that go on about the "temptation" of being gay. Um dude... You're just gay relax heh.

"Uneducated barbarian country". Coming from a "Bayou Billy"🗿

3li3liSnake is pulling that data from his a*s, where his head is firmly lodged.

But gaes do die of AIDS my uncle was gae he kicked of it too what other major virus do gaes die from

You don't wanna know

So... AIDS is the reason why gay people are not reproducing... Hmm. And your numbers are way off. 53% of those living with HIV are women and girls. In sub-Saharan Africa, six in seven new HIV infections among adolescents aged 15–19 years are among girls.

oh f**k off! it's 10! and "the population just dying" is kind of good, we are in the stages of over population.

Weird that he believes 80s information about aids too... It's rare for people to die of aids nowadays. What a noob. Reminds me of Stewie on family guy making fun the middle East getting info thirty years later ...

Right? In the 60s there was 3 billion of us, now we are approaching 8 billion. Doesn't look like population is dying to me.

You're still a drop in a bucket that won't continue to proliferate given how much shite the community injects itself with whether it's illicit or prescribed or mandated

More straight people have aids

Oh yes, our blasphemy laws are archaic. what make it even dumber is Muslims accusing other Muslims of blasphemy. 99.9% of cases are from rural areas though, where people acuse others for revenge purposes. People have been jailed and lynched for it but there has yet to be a single execution, thank God.

"Thank god". Ah ah ah ! Good one.

Being lynched doesn't feel much better than being executed, I think...

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You spelled "Islam" wrong.

Nope, Spelled it correctly : RELIGION. Show me any religion that doesn't start brainwashing children at a very early age, that allows women the same rights as men, that doesn't inspire some fear of leaving the religion/belief system, that doesn't encourage an ingroup/outgroup mentality, that doesn't ask for time/money of its believers,...

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You mean a religion that forces all this, and condemns to death those who want to leave it ? Otherwise, you are allow to leave your religion if it's the case. Oh, and, talking about Christianity, don't mix Old and New Testament, and conciles, where doctrines are modified/adapted. (I'm atheist, by the way).

I live in Pakistan so I think I know what I can and can't do. Atheism isn't illegal but I think apostasy is. But this is all in name. You really think the gov has the resources or even cares to crack down on the personal beliefs of 200 million people. Also, books like those of Richard Dawkins are freely available at local bookshops and loads of people are irreligious and just Muslim by culture. Think of Pakistan like victorian england, everything goes, just not openly. Also UAE and Qatar have a high expat population so I don't think atheism is illegal there either. It really bothers me how people love to clump Muslim countries together and give statements like yours in such an "aha, got you!" way. Apart from Afghanistan, we're all quite normal despite some notable human rights issues.

Well I adore the history and culture it's nothing like "normal" outside of Jordan and even there yikes... It's very reminiscent of 1930s America with the attitudes and laws... Also just within the last few weeks there have been multiple mobs killing people for blasphemy within city limits. In Pakistan specifically... I read al Jazeera everyday. I am obsessed with Syria and Iran from before BCE... They used to be ok. They are not anymore... Mostly due to US and UK interference... But also they should know better.

Yeah the lynching situation here is horrendous. But so much of our issues are linked to development. There's a reason some Muslims are normal while some others are crazy. For example if you look at the people who make up lynching mobs they tend to be have lower levels of education and are more likely to be poor and unemployed. If an environment where hate speech and extremism isn't restrained by government intervention, you'll get psychos.swap Islam out with any other religion or ideology, and you'll get the same thing if socio-economic factors aren't addressed. Just look at what's happening in India with violent Hindu mobs. This is also why so much if this happens in rural areas and not in cities. See the correlation? I can go in depth on this topic but this is bored panda comment thread. Also no country was ok before BCE, don't romanticise the past.

Thank you for the information. I don't know much at all about countries in the middle East, and it's nice to hear about it from someone who actually lives there.

Not surprising your problematic group and US conservatives have so much in common.

Just Islam.

Judaism and it’s offshoots (Christianity and Islam) it is. Leviticus 24:16 The punishment is death.

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It's just Islam actually moose. Try not to rope all the Abrahamic ones too closely. It's inaccurate...

When you're not too aware of the fact that all religion is inaccurate...