What a Monday
Read Hal's MLK-Day comment list. Fucking hilarious. I haven't stopped laughing since I started reading all the comments written. Serious business.
It's also a sign that everything that happened during the Chan-Turner war has pretty much been forgotten. Everything has gone back to normal at Hal's place, with everybody flailing their e-penii around frantically.
This is why racism is so funny. I don't mean funny as in a racial comedy act, or funny in an awkward hate crime sort of sense; I mean funny "you hate me because I'm differently tinted" funny. The thought that someone can be enraged and moved to such an emotional level just by the notion of differing skin is absolutely and totally hilarious to me. How can somebody be that angry over something so basic? If it's about actions perpetrated by a race as a whole, that's only a generalization, and every race has done things that are inflammatory to their populations' reputations. You get stupid stereotypes from generalizations: "Blacks steal and mug," "Mexicans are lazy and never finish jobs," "Jews horde money and always rip you off financially," "Whites are nothing but fat, old Republicans."
And it falls into a domino effect; stereotyping begets more stereotyping. And really, pride of a race doesn't help much, either. It's one thing to be proud of the bloodlines of your family and race, but another matter entirely when organizations crop up dedicated to purity of the race, regardless of what race it is. Racism is pointless because eventually, if one master race comes together and conquers the lesser races to permanent servitude, or at the most, extinction, there will be in-fighting. Arguments over purity of blood, who is more qualified to exist over others. The only way in-fighting would be avoided is to engineer a race that has only one single genetic code between them; no deviations, no chance of mutation. Just the single, constant gene code that would make everyone perfectly similar. Essentially, a clone race. Not exactly ideal, but the only real way.
I'm waiting for hate to stop being on a racial level and start existing on a level of species. Fuckin' aardvarks.
It's also a sign that everything that happened during the Chan-Turner war has pretty much been forgotten. Everything has gone back to normal at Hal's place, with everybody flailing their e-penii around frantically.
This is why racism is so funny. I don't mean funny as in a racial comedy act, or funny in an awkward hate crime sort of sense; I mean funny "you hate me because I'm differently tinted" funny. The thought that someone can be enraged and moved to such an emotional level just by the notion of differing skin is absolutely and totally hilarious to me. How can somebody be that angry over something so basic? If it's about actions perpetrated by a race as a whole, that's only a generalization, and every race has done things that are inflammatory to their populations' reputations. You get stupid stereotypes from generalizations: "Blacks steal and mug," "Mexicans are lazy and never finish jobs," "Jews horde money and always rip you off financially," "Whites are nothing but fat, old Republicans."
And it falls into a domino effect; stereotyping begets more stereotyping. And really, pride of a race doesn't help much, either. It's one thing to be proud of the bloodlines of your family and race, but another matter entirely when organizations crop up dedicated to purity of the race, regardless of what race it is. Racism is pointless because eventually, if one master race comes together and conquers the lesser races to permanent servitude, or at the most, extinction, there will be in-fighting. Arguments over purity of blood, who is more qualified to exist over others. The only way in-fighting would be avoided is to engineer a race that has only one single genetic code between them; no deviations, no chance of mutation. Just the single, constant gene code that would make everyone perfectly similar. Essentially, a clone race. Not exactly ideal, but the only real way.
I'm waiting for hate to stop being on a racial level and start existing on a level of species. Fuckin' aardvarks.
posted by BFAnon at 11:05 AM
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This reminds me of a conversation I had with my friend at work who was from Barbados.
When the skin color is the same, then they'll start differentiating by other means.
Your nose too big? Off with your head.
Your hair not straight enough? Not curly enough? Off with your head.
You raise cows and not chickens? Off with your head.
Your parents spoke a different dialect? Let's rape the women in your family.
And so on ad infinitum.
Look at Africa today. They're all black and yet they're still killing each other if only because the guys they're killing are from a different tribe.
Likewise in white Europe they were killing each other until just recently.
In Asia we've also had our fair share of killing each other. (WW2 anyone?)
Color is just the easiest way of differentiating in a society such as the US.
Move to a "homogeneous" society and trust me, you'll still have reasons to kill each other.
Well, of course. I just find the futility of hate by color funny, because there's so many other reasons for hatred, no matter how insignificant they seem.
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