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Wow. What a very special day it seems to have been.
Anyway, while we're banning, Vladimir's time-limit I gave him to either edit or reconsider his stance has expired, so it's my dubious pleasure to valet his last(?) words onto the board. As follows:
I appreciate your concern and support, such as it is, but from when I've written the comments in question to this day I maintain that the language and context in which they were framed were so outrageously ridiculous that only those with the maturity of children would not take them for the gags they are, and I can't even fathom the emotional lability has inspired any discussion thereof to this day. I don't begrudge anyone not finding them FUNNY; that's a matter of taste, though amongst those with whom I socialize, which represents a wide range of backgrounds, I am generally considered pretty goddamn hysterical, at least if uproarious laughter is anything to go by. But to believe I was remotely serious, well, that's not something that has much to do with me, now does it? No, I think not. Because the types who would say "bang locals" and "Skirts, hah?" without an immense amount of self-deprecating irony frequent boards like these, do they? Wait, isn't this Byrne Robotics?
I say offensive shit because it needs to be said, not because I invest any belief in it. The ease with which some choose, and it is a choice, to be offended only furthers to my mind that such things need to be said so said types can be confronted with their unease. It's both the essence of comedy and of growth; when you're really good, you get both. I consider what I do something of an exorcism: I neither expect thanks nor am I surprised by disdain for it, but I do hope someone of sense recognizes it for what it is, and it distresses me that those in charge of this board can't be counted amongst that sane minority. I welcome anyone's attempts to armchair psychoanalyze me on the basis of my posts hereupon, but I happen to think I give far less away of myself in pages of rambling jackanapery than do some of your colleagues in a moment of taking themselves a little too seriously.
(I skimmed the recent "Wifegate" bemusedly, not because Haus got his, but because GM took himself so seriously that he refused to see where the joke lay, proof positive that the supposedly enlightened can be just as blindly reflexive about stupid crap as the rest of us. A good lesson to bear in mind when on the other side of that equation.)
There's a quote I recall from SANDMAN, though I'm sure it must be older than that: "It is the fool's purview to speak uncomfortable truths, even unto a king, but at the end of the day, the fool is still a fool and the king is still a king." In short, worry about what actually matters; I am no threat to anyone here any more than they are to themselves.
You have my permission to repost this to your mod discussion. If something further is expected of me beyond this statement, it is likely not forthcoming.
In an initial response, I did point out that at the very least people of Indian heritage would not 'choose' to be offended, but he has apparently chosen not to engage the subject further, so I think that position is untenable. |
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