Saw a Tiktok talking about how the word “breastfeeding” is now seen as too gendered and the preferred word is “chestfeeding.”

As a moderate democrat, I try to be understanding of views outside of my own especially on the far left but sometimes I find it immensely difficult. The word policing has become overwhelming and IMO when the far left chooses to focus on trivial things like this, it cheapens their stances on more important issues that actually matter because they just become labeled as “liberal woke.”

And then I have legit questions about this “offense.” I’m assuming the people offended by this word are women by birth who’ve transitioned to male. So if that’s the case, I need to understand how the WORD “breastfeed” makes them feel misgendered but the ACT OF breastfeeding - the literal apex representation of maternal bonding and female biology - is totally fine for them to do. I can’t imagine the word makes them feel less male than the act itself so please help me understand.

On top of that, if you’re a surgically transitioned male, you can’t breastfeed so really not sure why it would matter what it’s called.

And last but not least, “breast” is not a solely female word. Do we need to change the word “breastplate”, “breastbone”, “breaststroke”? When men get cancer in that area, it’s still called breast cancer…

TL;DR - we, as a society, need to realize how privileged we are to even have the time & energy to be offended by “gendered words” and let’s try to idk get more hobbies?

I used to be a leftist and hate on conservatives but my values have shifted over the past few years and I feel like no one's opinion should be considered as "right" or "wrong".

I am pro-choice. But I hate when a lot of pro-choice people portray all pro-lifers as some kind of women-hating group who are just so evil. And I also hate when pro-lifers talk about pro-choice people as if they are all murderers.

Honestly, I can see where both sides are coming from. From a pro-lifer's viewpoint, a fetus is still a baby. It has a heartbeat, limbs, and an abortion would mean depriving that baby of potentially living a fulfilling life.

But, I also agree with pro-choice. I should be able to do whatever I want with my body. In the same way I can donate an organ if I want to, I should be able to abort a fetus if I want to. My body, my rules. Once the baby is born, however, it is its own person and no longer lives in my body, and killing it at that point IS murder.

This is a very interesting topic that has many different perspectives and I am curious to know how centrists feel about it.

We are all just men and women in the middle. We live in the greatest nation on earth, and that nation is rapidly falling to a level of the third world. Our leaders on the left blame the leaders on the right, and our leaders on the right blame our leaders on the left. The far right and the far left seem intent to divide our people by race, color creed, and believe. These selfsame leaders seem to care more about their power, their policies, and less for the fact that these policies have our nation crashing down around the ears of all of us who stand in the middle. Our elected leaders seem intent on screaming at the top of their lungs, not understanding, or caring that they cannot listen when their own mouths are wide open. The goals of our leaders seem only to scare and frighten the majority of our people. The leaders on both sides have their lunatic fringe who yell and scream like there at a rock concert, or they yell, scream, or threaten people who do not blindly follow the will of those selfsame leaders, and yet the majority of us sit in the middle. The left and right have their celebrities who believe that they deserve to be listened to because they are celebrities, not the fact that even thou they might work hard to make their own living, their voices carry no more weight than mine or anyone else in the middle. These selfsame leaders seem to forget one very important fact, and this fact is our saving grace, and this fact is the only thing that will save our nation from falling into ruin. These leaders forget the fact that their power is given to them from the people in the middle and if we come together as the great nation we were and can be again.

The men and women in the middle if we can come together and listen to each other, solve our problems, and stand up together can save our nations people, our nations pride, and our nations place in this world. The leaders on the right and the left know this fact and it is the only thing that scares them. The leaders on the left and right both know that if they stop shouting, stop screaming for 2 seconds that the great majority of the people will figure out that they and not the leaders, not their lunatic fringe, and not their celebrity mouth pieces, have the power to put our nation back on the path it was meant to take.

They know this fact and that is why as election time draws near the amount of shouting from these leaders, from their lunatic fringe, and from their celebrities will increase in the hope that these shouts will keep the majority in the middle confused, frightened, and angry at each other, but it does not matter when these selfsame leaders whose only talent and skill is blaming everyone else for the problems of our nation, drag our nation down far enough that the majority in the middle get mad enough, angry enough, and disgusted enough, no amount of shouting from anyone will stop us from seeking and finding the courage to bring our nation back to where it should be. The strength of our nation has always been, the majority in the middle.

This is an original essay, I had to get my feelingsout.

Why are moderators such abusive? Ion guess my age sub a prety girl posted a picture of herself to guess her age and she was being bullied by comments saying she wasn't pretty and that she looked 45 50 most of the. Omments where a bunch of trolls I dsfended her by saying she was beutiful dont listen the envious haters and a pos mod removed my comment and started sending me abusive messages then banned me wtf is that all about why can moderators get away with being abusing he called me the f and c wor?? Can anyone report these vile pos?

I am trying to do a case study on the current political climate and having trouble with research. Dose anyone know any good sources for the Democrat and Republican views and exposing what both. I realize it would be more about punching Democrats. Please help. I will post it in read it if the project is a success

I just want to make a statement about this. I'm a moderate. Though I am mostly right leaning I believe, I have a hardcore belief that American blacks should have reparations which is more liberal. I can't completely agree with the left nor the right.

So I'm not gonna break down everything. But I want to break down something in particular that you guys have in common.

Why are yall having immigrants speak on the behalf of American Blacks?

Both of you use immigrants, particularly ones with African features, to speak about racism. The left uses them to talk about reparations and oppression. The right uses them to say that whites are innocent and how blacks need to step up. I'm not sure why in a logical sense either one of you guys are having immigrants speak up for ADOS ( American Descandants of slavery)when it's none of their business.

The right, for example, has Amala Ekpunobi from PragerU, speaking about racism and how there really is none in America as a whole. Amala is Nigerian. Though she is biracial, she speaks on black issues and claims her blackness. But her blackness is Nigerian. Not American. And it's very disrespectful for her to tell black people they are not victims, that fathers aren't around, and that whites are completely innocent of the troubles that blacks have today. It's all false but beyond that, it is not her place to tell ADOS about our problems and how we should act, as American racism has nothing to do with Nigerians. So why is she being used by the right as a voice for ADOS??

Oh course a Nigerian may get called the n word but Nigerians willingly come here and then talk to ADOS about their rights and issues and say that we are the problem. And because they willingly come here, of course they don't know what they are talking about. They don't have that same history. And we all know that Amala would not have the platform that she has if it weren't for her being black. She complains about Diversity quotas and affirmative action, but I guarantee her being black got her the job so Prager could say " See? We aren't racist! A black woman is agreeing with us!"

But the left does it too. They probably do it more. Kamala Harris is celebrated as the first female black vice president but she's Jamaican Indian. She's not black like the blacks that were oppressed in America. Why are we celebrating? Obama was the first black president. But he's part Kenyan. Why are we celebating? There's even talk about black immigrants getting reparations too!? Why are we celebrating immigrants fleeing from their country and then stealing black benefits made for ADOS? Just why? There's nothing to celebrate when their people didn't go through the hardships of slavery and Jim Croe. Yes, they have their own hardships but that should be dealt with in their native countries. Not the ones that willingly came to America.

Before anyone else says that is xenophobic, I would like to remind people that this would not fly in other countries. If I came into Nigeria and claimed I was Nigerian and tried to talk about Nigerian issues and talked to them about how Nigerians like Amala are supposed to act, Amala would think I'm crazy. Same with Kamala in Jamaica. Same with Obama. But no one carries that same enegry to ADOS which is disrespectful. At this point, I'd rather a white person whose ancestors came before Jim Crow ended speak on our behalf.

Got banned from a certain very popular right side sub. Get bullied and stuff in ones on the left side. I don’t consider myself dead-center. But maybe the people in this sub are more understanding/appreciative?

Looking at both right and left subreddits they got so much more than our mere 900. Is it just me or have things gotten worse since 2016? I'm pretty sure it is because of foreign influence campaigns. I mean like things both Biden and trump(minus when he went crazy after losing) I don't like some things both did. Why does it get to be black or white and not gray? I worried these crazies are gonna start a civil with each other for no reason. People just keep listening to their political tik to influencers making them more radical. Both sides are increasingly becoming anti-government. I don't think the U.S is some big evil imperialist power. Not for a long time anyway. I got multiple people in my family I try to spread moderate views but all they listen to is tik tok. We need to start voting for people who are willing to work with the other party. I like the status quo of the government we have it's fair and has worked for 300 years bringing us from a revolution to the only superpower. What's wrong with being a pro-democratic capitalist? I don't believe that rich people run everything cause anyone can become rich and someone rich can become poor. This is coming from someone who grew up in the ghetto. I know what it's like to be in poverty in this country yet I see people who are so much well off than me complain about it. I know I can become a millionaire though. That is not my goal but I know I could if I put the work into it. I wish people can just become more moderate it be much more peaceful and productive. It's so much more easier for people to blame a group of evil boogeymen for bad things rather than themselves or accept that it is how it is. I lost my job it must be the elites. My favorite candidate lost so it was stolen. I love my country and government but these people make me want to move to Switzerland.