"xenophobia sucks"
see how many of the joys of life you miss out on, when you allow yourself to be wilfully blinded by lazy, narrow, prejudice.
most everyone else saw, understood and enjoyed the joke, and the willing participation thereof; you only saw an excuse for xenophobic name-calling.
an opportunity to use this as an object lesson, what you tried to do here, and ultimately how silly you ended up looking. what else do you think you might be missing out on day-to-day, when your first resort is always to this sort of cheap, tired-out, collectivist tribalism.
me, i'm not sure the trade-off, that rush you get from subsuming yourself in the mob, and indulging in the toxic "notion of the other", is worth what you lose of your humanity and common decency. have a think.
( , Sat 15 Aug 2009, 14:17, Share, Reply)
see how many of the joys of life you miss out on, when you allow yourself to be wilfully blinded by lazy, narrow, prejudice.
most everyone else saw, understood and enjoyed the joke, and the willing participation thereof; you only saw an excuse for xenophobic name-calling.
an opportunity to use this as an object lesson, what you tried to do here, and ultimately how silly you ended up looking. what else do you think you might be missing out on day-to-day, when your first resort is always to this sort of cheap, tired-out, collectivist tribalism.
me, i'm not sure the trade-off, that rush you get from subsuming yourself in the mob, and indulging in the toxic "notion of the other", is worth what you lose of your humanity and common decency. have a think.
( , Sat 15 Aug 2009, 14:17, Share, Reply)
no, i think i disagree with your assesment.
i'll call out ignorant racist fuckwittery any day and all day, and no amount of schoolyard namecalling, or idiot accomplice sniggering is likely to dissuade me.
if that girl was darker skinned, with a different accent, would the b3ta board have condoned 'stupid nigerians' as a reply, or if her surname was appropriate, "stupid jews" ... yeah, yeah, DailyMail/BNP etc etc, let's all be hypocritical double-standard having lazy B3ta fuckwits.
it was a fuckin stupid thing for him to say, end of story.
so, how about you come up to me in the street and call me a cock, see how far you get ... pretend internet hardman, what a fuckin novelty.
fuck generalisations, stereotypes and crass ridiculous nationalisms, and while i'm here, fuck you too.
( , Sat 15 Aug 2009, 19:04, Share, Reply)