If you've invited a lib into your apartment, it's entirely on you. Don't be surprised if they start colonizing your apartment and call it "Aid" or "Democracy" or something.
Yeah, it's like inviting a vampire into your home and then being surprised when it tries to drink your blood.
If you don't invite a lib in, they're bound by arcane laws of civility to stay out.
The scorpion complained about wearing a mask during the pandemic. The scorpion fears not its own demise.
You should just respect the customs of whoever's house it isI can't tell people not to I touch things in my apartment? Fucking what?
Don't these people worship property and ownership?
Only as a convenient vehicle for dominating their surroundings. The moment it conflicts with what they want they snap.
You already know the person who wrote this article wants to keep their shoes on in the apartment.
"Please don't touch my emotional support ball of radium and asbestos"
"Fuck you, I'm the guest, I do whatever I want"
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They worship their own property. The property of non-white people is being misused or underutilized, and therefore it is their right and responsibility to take control of it.
They care about property, not possessions. It's why they're anti-piracy even if you're only using your own possessions to do it.
The thing about western individualism is the ethos is “fuck you, no one tells ME what to do!”
The keyword is ME. Individualism is thinking rules are beneath you, but hypocritically, rules should only apply to other people.
This is the stupidest take on hospitality I've ever seen. This person needs to be beaten over the head with a copy of Derrida's "On Hospitality" until they become unconscious or learn something, whichever happens first.
It has informed so much of what I do, working with food and conviviality. I come back to it every now and then, and it's still fresh.
It is a source for one of my favorite ethical essays, too.
Have you read Levinas? Derrida's later stuff takes a lot of inspiration from his ideas about ethics and justice
I have, based on what Derrida referenced on his writings on hospitality and his Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, but I haven't gone in detail on it.
If you're interested in seeing a food-related take to ethics as hospitality, I really recommend the essay "Ethics is Hospitality" by Raymond Boisvert and Lisa Heldke, too.
Time and the Other is a banger. He wrote most of it in a German POW camp
I'll check that essay out, thanks!
Downloading the book right now! Thanks!
The whole book "Philosophers at table" (where the essay is from) is really good, if you've ever felt the need to overthink food like I do daily lol.
As a cracker, when I enter someone's house I immediately go to their couch and begin rubbing my dirty shoes into it while yelling "fuck your couch!"
Finally! I'm not alone! We experimental homunculi gotta stick together and stand up for our rights to be filthy piggies
Do some crackers actually wear their outside shoes in bed? I see it in movies sometimes and it's such an absurd annoying detail.
that's just convenient for films, not a documentary detail of yankee lifestyle. im sure somebody does it tho
I did it once as a kid because I was so excited to go on a trip. I went to bed in my clothes, all picked out. Shoes on. Ready to face the day. So excited I could barely sleep.
We of course left the house one hour later than intended because my family are perpetually tardy.
And that's the origin story of my villain arc.
"hosting is letting people do whatever the fuck they want actually"
fuck off, you can wait outside
"In the corner, but at least a foot from any walls. Also preferably on tile or perhaps vinyl flooring not the carpet"
Me, explaining to my dog how to properly shit or puke in my house. Now expanded for feral liberals
the white libs also extremely quick to refuse to put on a fucking mask because their god emperor ended covid 
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Please don't ask people to not shit on your floor when entering your apartment. It's rude.
When you invite people into your home, you need to let go. You can't be like, "You can't piss there" and "You have to stop shitting everywhere" and "If you jerk off in my living room, you are in trouble." Hosting is letting your guests enjoy themselves.
Hosting is letting you guests enjoy themselves
I will simply not be friends with anyone whose idea of comfort is shoes on in the house. Freakish behaviour.
Why do they not want to take off their shoes when they're someones' place? I don't understand the weird hills these jackass white libs want to die on.
: "You see, workers should have no rights because here in the west, we have a huge culture of respecting people's property!"
Wtf I support castle laws now (but only against white libs who refuse to take off their shoes).
People of colonial complexion apparently have a different definition of what is "rude". In any Latin American country I know, for example, "rude" is doing whatever you want in other people's homes. What to expect from a culture that normalizes staying in bed with shoes on. And if you're supposed to act like you're at home wherever you are, why leave your house?
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it's the individualization of the mindset of colonialism. so at least they're being consistent here.
Well you see, the cumskins are correct, which is why they had to go all over the planet to tell brown people how wrong and barbaric their version of hospitality is. If white people's customs aren't objectively correct, how come all the other cultures are inferior?
To be real I thought the expectation was always "someone else's house, their rules" and this article is alarming. Despite being in 
I was raised to obey the rules of whoever's house I am at, it is their space.
What else to expect from settler ''culture''. For them it's about doing whatever they want at someone else's house and expense. Like huf said, at least it's consistent.
I love to make people feel comfortable in my home and I feel like taking off shoes helps with that because it makes a visit much more personal and homely for the guest. Shoes off is so much more comfortable, I don’t understand why anyone would want to keep their shoes on in someones home.
I live in a place where it’s abnormal to remove your shoes as guest but no one has ever complained.
The first thing I do for guests is hand them a pair of slippers. Sometimes they decline, sometimes they don't. But that is my way of saying "shoes off" even if it's customary in Poland.
hosting is letting your guests enjoy themselves
I will shit on your carpet, and you will let me do it. It's how I find enjoyment, after all.
Paulie sopranos sauna scene vibes.
Can’t think why else she’d have such issue with taking off her shoes. She must have fucked up feet (or be wearing a wire!)