Sermon To america number 0006: on racism
WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?
Have we forgotten how to take a joke?
I mean, every day, turn on the tv, AND YOU SEE SOMEONE PICKING ON THE WHITEBOY. THEN, YOU CHANGE THE STATION, AND SEE SOMEONE PICKING ON THE ARABS. AND THEN, YOU FLIP CHANNELS, AND SEE THE WAR HAS KEPT GOING IN IRAQ.AND SOME KID HAS DIED. AND THEN, YOU SEE THAT OUR ATTEMPTS AT SOVEREIGNTY ARE BEING CALLED RACIST BY SOMEONE WAVING A FOREIGN FLAG IN OUR STREETS.
AND WHEN SOMEONE COMMENTS ON IT, THEY GET CALLED A RACIST.
WHAT THE FUCK? WE NEED TO LIGHTEN UP ON THE COLOR ISSUE BEFORE IT DESTROYS US.
20 YEARS AGO, PEOPLE COULD STILL TAKE A JOKE.
BUT NOW, YOU GET LOCKED IN JAIL FOR TRYING TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE. WE HAVE GONE TOO FAR. THE PENDULUM NEEDS TO BALANCE OUT INSTEAD OF SWINGING BETWEEN ONE OF US BEING ON TOP.
racism -> creates anti racism -> which becomes the norm -> and creates a reversal of the original persecution -> which continues the cycle of hate.
If one group is in control of another, whether 50 yrs ago, or the reversed persecution that occurs now, It's gonna make people have trouble getting along. How about we just be american?
The problem is, people forget what it's actually like to be oppressed, and label any form of justice they don't like oppression.
Like when the revolutionary war ended, and there were all sorts of revolts against the patriots.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE, FOR US TO REALIZE THAT IT'S UNFAIR FROM ANY DIRECTION? AND WILL WE LEARN TO LAUGH AT THIS SHIT, OR DO WE HAVE TO KEEP ON FIGHTING FOR CONTROL? MAYBE THE CULTURES HAVE CLASHED TOO MUCH, BECAUSE THEY ARE TOO DIFFERENT. IN WHICH CASE, I'M MOVING TO EUROPE.
EDIT: (PLEASE READ BEFORE SPAMMING)
While writing this, I pulled a sociology experiment on the pd.com forums.
Using an old aquaintance as a model for what to say, I wrote out some pretty offensive stuff. I'm sure that I've made permanent enemies over it.
People, give me some good Ideas of where to troll, coz here is not one.
But also, Learn to make your arguments less emotional, and more intellectual. That is all, for now, my apologies and good luck to you all.
ALso, Let ME kNOw if You find more posts I need to erase.
you could be right, but you can't fix the System. it's Designed to function poorly.
People could take a joke in 1986?
That's new to me.
Quote from: LMNOPeople could take a joke in 1986?
That's new to me.
They still had their valium prescriptions from the '70's.
Now they have Ritalin and Prozac. But you can't laugh after you take them, and if you stop you have a psychotic break.
The people who invented the pills thought it was good jake at the time....
Quote from: vexaph0dyou could be right, but you can't fix the System. it's Designed to function poorly.
Conflict of the worker = safety for the rich.
Quote from: The unimportant oneQuote from: vexaph0dyou could be right, but you can't fix the System. it's Designed to function poorly.
Conflict of the worker = safety for the rich.
what about the conflict of the rich?
conflict for the rich = workers become cannon fodder
conflict of the rich = never-ending until everything is dead
Quote from: LHXconflict of the rich = never-ending until everything is dead
that's just life in general.
Quote from: vexaph0dQuote from: LHXconflict of the rich = never-ending until everything is dead
that's just life in general.
I thought that was your avatar.
Quote from: vexaph0dQuote from: LHXconflict of the rich = never-ending until everything is dead
that's just life in general.
now we can see why
Quote from: The unimportant oneWHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?
Have we forgotten how to take a joke?
Under Quadropolar logic, Neither. We can't forget something we never knew.
Quote from: The unimportant oneI mean, every day, [...] SEE THE WAR [...] SOME KID HAS DIED [...] WAVING A FOREIGN FLAG IN OUR STREETS [...] TAKE A JOKE [...] How about we just be american? [...] KEEP ON FIGHTING FOR CONTROL [...] EUROPE
Yea, laugh at the poor dead kid. Racism is teh funny.
Quote from: The unimportant oneWhile writing this, I pulled a sociology experiment on the pd.com forums.
Aratraxia?
Quote from: The unimportant oneUsing an old aquaintance as a model for what to say
Aratraxia!
QuoteI'm sure that I've made permanent enemies over it.
I'd say that is a fair assessment.
But then, did you think you could use people as unwitting participants in a sociological experiment and come out with their blessings? :?
Quote from: Kai WrenQuoteI'm sure that I've made permanent enemies over it.
I'd say that is a fair assessment.
But then, did you think you could use people as unwitting participants in a sociological experiment and come out with their blessings? :?
I hereby grant TUO the official Blessed Unhelloness and Truthiness Toile, and further bestow upon him the Blessings of the Bad Webnymn.
I am unwitting! I guess that makes me witless! :D
TUO = Ataraxia?
that makes sense to me.
Quote from: East Coast HustleTUO = Ataraxia?
that makes sense to me.
Who?
Quote from: the other anonymousQuote from: The unimportant oneWHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?
Have we forgotten how to take a joke?
Under Quadropolar logic, Neither. We can't forget something we never knew.
TRue.
Quote from: TOAI mean, every day, [...] SEE THE WAR [...] SOME KID HAS DIED [...] WAVING A FOREIGN FLAG IN OUR STREETS [...] TAKE A JOKE [...] How about we just be american? [...] KEEP ON FIGHTING FOR CONTROL [...] EUROPE
Yea, laugh at the poor dead kid. Racism is teh funny.
No, not having "teh funny" (aka, a sense of humor)
Can lead to conflict was the message.
Quote from: The unimportant oneSermon To america number 0006: on racism
WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?
Have we forgotten how to take a joke?
Go tell your "jokes" to Verthaine.
I'll munch some popcorn while he breaks your bones, you ignorant fuck.
Quote from: The Good Reverend RogerQuote from: The unimportant oneSermon To america number 0006: on racism
WHAT THE FUCK, AMERICA?
Have we forgotten how to take a joke?
Go tell your "jokes" to Verthaine.
I'll munch some popcorn while he breaks your bones, you ignorant fuck.
Damn skippy.
Why must we passively allow the offended party to do all the castigation?
Inititative, guys. C'mon.
Quote from: The unimportant one
No, not having "teh funny" (aka, a sense of humor)
Can lead to conflict was the message.
So, not having a sense of humor causes conflict?
And conflict causes a lack of humorousness.
A viscious cycle to be sure.
As my mom used to say, "I don't care who started it, Stop!"
Or, to rephrase in context: Let's all laugh at the poor dead kid.
-toa
holy fucking roses, dammit!
Only one problem - racism is almost never funny and almost always a symptom of something far worse.
I heard that all racists were homosexuals. I think there is a conspiracy here.
Jack Ruby was a homosexual, but so was J. Edgar Hoover (also a transvestite).
JFK wasn't a homosexual. Proof because he was banging every blond within 12" of his crotch.
Racists killed JFK! OMG!
Fags!