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Racism... it just keeps getting dumber

  
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:06 / 21.09.01
You wouldn't think it was possible, would you?
I'm thinking here of the twats in both the US and the UK (and, I fear, probably other places too) who've been attacking Sikhs. I mean, racism and taking revenge on innocent Muslims must surely be the last refuge of the terminally stupid, right? And if you can't even think your way through that one properly... it kind of bugs me to think that for every imbecile that does this kind of shit, there's probably quite a lot more who don't actually do it, but share their opinions... and therefore theire underlying stupidity. Now THAT kind of thought keeps me awake nights. Thinking maybe Bill Hicks was right (as he so often was)... we ARE just a virus with shoes.
 
 
Hush
14:15 / 22.09.01
Infinite justice calls for infinite DUMBNESS.

The trouble is these people enjoy and feel justified by their own ignorance, and only know themselves thru their own aggressive impulses.

the only responce is to be suportrive in your own community and not to ever accept crapness, or to merely pass on by.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:20 / 22.09.01
quote:Originally posted by Luke Wing:
Infinite justice calls for infinite DUMBNESS.

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Yeah. Damn right. Unfortunately, it seems to exist in an infinite supply.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
14:22 / 22.09.01
quote:Originally posted by Luke Wing:
Infinite justice calls for infinite DUMBNESS.

The trouble is these people enjoy and feel justified by their own ignorance, and only know themselves thru their own aggressive impulses.

the only responce is to be suportrive in your own community and not to ever accept crapness, or to merely pass on by.
 
 
Higher than the sun :)
16:44 / 22.09.01
Unfourtinatly the whole 911 tragedy is bringing out some very misplaced Xenophobia. Obvious point I know but I think it needs to be said.
 
 
Ierne
17:00 / 22.09.01
Next installment in the saga of Ierne and hir Pakistani boss:

He came in on Friday with huge bloody scabs over his nose and mouth (after not coming in to work the day before). He insisted they were cold sores, and didn't wish to press the matter further.

Cried my head off when I got home. It's so frustrating, and painful, and humiliating. Both for him that he has to go through this and feels that he can't talk to us about it, and for us that we can't help him. He's got two little kids...it just sucks.

I think it's the insidious feelings of helplessness, the evil "Oh, it's always been this way, bigots will always exist and will never ever change..." that are the worst. The internalization of those feelings have to be fought so that external places can take place.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
17:43 / 22.09.01
quote:Originally posted by Ierne:

I think it's the insidious feelings of helplessness, the evil "Oh, it's always been this way, bigots will always exist and will never ever change..." that are the worst. The internalization of those feelings have to be fought so that external places can take place.
Yeah. Didn't mean to give the impression that I'm giving in to this shit (nor should anyone else.) Just that it IS omnipresent. We may never win, but if we stop fighting it then we WILL DEFINITELY lose. We ARE a "virus with shoes", but surely we CAN better ourselves?
And even if we don't, then, hell, at least we tried.
 
 
pacha perplexa
18:46 / 22.09.01
quote:Originally posted by Ierne:

Cried my head off when I got home. It's so frustrating, and painful, and humiliating. Both for him that he has to go through this and feels that he can't talk to us about it, and for us that we can't help him. He's got two little kids...it just sucks.


Damn, this is horrible!

Here in banana-land the press is spreading the idea that arabs are all suspects and that all terrorism is in the name of Allah.
So you can hear people saying things like: "Destroy Afghanistan at once!"

Stuuuupid

If things go on like that, Im afraid I'll never be able to enter US, because of my arab middle name
 
 
bitchiekittie
18:43 / 25.09.01
Ive been appalled at the number of people Ive heard in favor of this crap, basically: "lets ship em all out, send em all home"..as if someone who happens to be of middle eastern descent has less right to be here than the rest of us non-natives. Im waiting for the cries for internment camps

christ, all we need is more suffering right now
 
  
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