February 6, 2009

• Something to say about saying something for yourself.

   

      What is the most striking thing about our current president over the past few?
      If your answer was that he is black, than you lose.

      Many people have dubbed me a racist individual due to the admittedly controversial stuff I have said (and will say) on this site numerous times.  Regardless of the fact that I was saying these things to make a point, it rings true that I was in fact saying them, and that they were in fact said.  The previous statement was not as redundant as it at first sounds.  Yes, I said racist things to make a point, not to offend people, but if people were in fact offended, than the things that I said were quite literally offensive.  Do I now regret having said them?  No.  I don’t regret having said them for the very reason that I said them in the first place.  The fact that racist comments are offensive is entirely and completely because the people who are offended by them, choose so to be.  Allow me to provide an example.

     Apple.

      Chances are very slim (unless you are like me and really fucking hate all of a certain company’s products) that the above word offended you, and if it did, you need to get a life.  This is because you didn’t allow that word to represent something that caused you offense.

      Bitch.

      This word may or may not have offended you.  In fact, this word does have two meanings, and if taken lightly, you can look around the offense at the true meaning of the word and thereby not allow yourself to be offended.

      Nigger.

      Now we come to the word that has probably been on the tip of your tongue since this entry began.  The fact that there is almost no friendly association that we can match this word to immediately sets off a red flag within us that causes us to choose to be offended by this word. 

      Each of those three words are equally offensive if one or more people were offended by either of them.  If one strange fellow was offended by the word apple, it makes it (by definition) no less offensive than the word nigger, no matter how many people it offends. 

      There is more to my direction here, however.  The main reason that I chose to blog today was to stress something.  If you are really against racial profiling, if you are truly attempting to end racism once and for all, you can’t even so much as acknowledge its existence.  Sure, people who disagree with me will argue that you must be aware of a situation in order to fight it, and “ignoring the problem is not the solution” but syntax suggests quite the contrary.  What exactly does racism mean?  Racism is when somebody is discriminating between races, is this correct?  Well, what does discriminating mean?  Last I checked, it has to do with associating individual characteristics between to objects.  In other words, by so much as admitting that there is such thing as different races, makes you by the books, racist.

      To wrap this whole thing back around to my introit, it is to say that anybody who says “our country has taken a great step forward in eliminating racism by electing the first black president” is not only being racist themselves, but is being extraordinarily contradictory. 

   

      P.S.  When trying to speak out for civil rights, please, please, please do so in a manner that doesn’t make you look like a complete fucking moron:
   

   

      Until next time, good luck with life.

      Days since last day off:  16
      Days since last went to gym:  2
      Days since last ignorant customer:  0
      Days this year that life’s been good to me:  36

   

   

  

   

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