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outb0undflight t1_is6i7f0 wrote

Reply to comment by AlexVill_21 in Good places to find cheap video games? by AlexVill_21

Yeah, that sounds about right. I felt like I hit the jackpot the fall before COVID when I spur of the moment decided to drop my wife off at work and hit up a few yard sales and one actually had a handful of N64 games. Jet Force Gemini ain't a masterpiece but for $2 it's a deal.

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outb0undflight t1_is6gzz3 wrote

Reply to Plantation Street will remain; Worcester council ends UMass Chan bid for name change by HRJafael

About what I expected.

As someone who is pro-name change, and said as much on the last thread, I don't disagree with Rivera here: that the word Plantation has inextricable connections to slavery in the United States but this particular change seemed largely performative.

That being said, hilarious dog and pony show from city council to act like inconveniencing residents is a bridge too far from the people who insist we have to buy special trash bags or the city won't pick up our garbage. If they wanted to make the change they'd just cover the costs for residents, cities have done it in the past, but it's an easy justification for why you're not making a change you weren't ever really gonna consider making anyway.

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[deleted] OP t1_is5yfu1 wrote

Reply to comment by Travelin_Jenny1 in How good of a place is Holden MA for Asian Americans? by [deleted]

The only problem is that my cousin's son is on the autistic spectrum (he doesn't have serious behavioural problems at all and he is quite introverted, similar to me, only with limited social issues. From what I have heard from my cousin, his son has been learning 1st grade maths, some basic science, social studies, and he does very well on these extracurricular books. I believe since my cousin's son wants to challenge himself, I believe my cousin should look for a school that challenges his son.

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[deleted] OP t1_is5xrqu wrote

Reply to comment by thisisntmynametoday in What's your opinion on renaming Plantation Street because it's racist? by [deleted]

Bro, it's obvious what the guy is saying: the British Europeans claimed the land and called it Quinsigamond Plantation before they had settlers there.

Why do you keep citing those books? They don't prove anything. The other commenter(s) is/are right. If you want to say "plantation" is a problem, it's not because of the reason that the school stated. They talked about the connotations of the word, which bring up antebellum slavery, but you're talking about the way colonists behaved toward Native Americans. The guy who said the logic of "plantation" also applies to many other names is right and you don't even respond to that. You just repeat what you said on a different comment.

What did the city councilor representing the district say yesterday at the meeting of the city council?

>He said that a name change would require the roughly 6,700 residents and 100 businesses on Plantation Street, Plantation Parkway and Plantation Terrace to change legal and identification documents, change official addresses and go through all sorts of other hassles at considerable expense...
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“It just isn’t fair,’ Russell continued. “It could have been a moment for this community to come together — and hope it is in the future — but all this petition does is inconvenience people on Plantation Street and mobilize people into their respective political corners.”

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Kirbyoto t1_is5ucbs wrote

Reply to comment by New-Vegetable-1274 in What's your opinion on renaming Plantation Street because it's racist? by [deleted]

>I was pointing out the tiresome tilting at windmills that virtue signaling is. Don't you think that renaming a street in the name of social justice is a bit of a stretch? I can think of a million more things that are actually important that mostly get lip service.

Complaining about them renaming a street is just as stupid as fighting for the street to be renamed. Caring about this in any capacity is equally pointless. You can't talk about "tilting at windmills" when this is the kind of shit you get mad about.

>At the moment we are dealing with historic inflation and are headed into a bitter winter. The homeless are in a perpetual struggle and these two things will effect them more than any other segment of the population this year. I don't think Plantation St is on their list of things to worry about.

And yet it's on YOUR list of things to worry about, because you're here on the internet complaining about it instead of helping homeless people. So explain to me why it's different and why you don't have any obligation to spend your time wisely. I guarantee you have spent exactly as much time thinking about this as the UMASS personnel who submitted the proposal to city hall - which, by the way, was voted down anyways.

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New-Vegetable-1274 t1_is5t1t4 wrote

Reply to comment by Kirbyoto in What's your opinion on renaming Plantation Street because it's racist? by [deleted]

I was pointing out the tiresome tilting at windmills that virtue signaling is. Don't you think that renaming a street in the name of social justice is a bit of a stretch? I can think of a million more things that are actually important that mostly get lip service. Worcester once effectively took care of the indigent and the insane on the acreage where UMASS stands, Do you think the individual who thought renaming the street was necessary even knows this? At the moment we are dealing with historic inflation and are headed into a bitter winter. The homeless are in a perpetual struggle and these two things will effect them more than any other segment of the population this year. I don't think Plantation St is on their list of things to worry about.

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