Well said, Eliza. I should PM you about your friend and that electric piano. She never returned my voice mail message and I'm not sure if she gave me the right phone number.

I'd also like to add to this thread that I believe that I've called my own mother a "fucking goddamn whore" before when woken up by her at an unscheduled time. The painter dudes got off light. I do not like people waking me up very much when I would rather be sleeping. I am sorry, but I am not responsible for the horrors that spew from my mouth before I am fully conscious. I'm impressed and glad that the harshest thing my brain could construct was "Mexican+pieces of shit."

THREAD OF THE MONTH!

Mandroid,

Douche was probably sensitive to the fact that some one other than himself made that comment. He stirred the shit. Scum do that and us hypersensitivers(?) react.

Bring that asshat back. I'll have a cathartic release on his asshole proper.

Douglas

What pisses me off the most is that I like AJ and don't want him to leave because of some dumb thing that I said which wasn't intended as offensive but probably sounds derogatory if you're looking for racism.

On the other hand, I'm also sick of people in the Bay Area being cunts and lecturing me about cultural sensitivity at every opportunity and making me feel like I'm some corn-fed ignoramus from the Midwest because I'm blunt about things. This Oakland lady we know recently informed me that some Mexican people are multilingual *gasp!* when I voiced my concerns about communicating "DO NOT CUT DOWN MY GARDEN" to them. This is after I'd already spoken to them and gauged how much English they knew, which was very little. I don't really care whether or not they speak English and I'm not some conservative ass who thinks they should be sent out of the country but it's a problem when I'm trying to tell them not to hack away my small zucchini plant. I'm not a racist for saying that I wish that I knew how to tell them to not cut down the garden I'm starting, for the love of god.

Jesus. People need to calm the fuck down about suspecting racism in every situation imaginable. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, you know?

Actually, that's a pretty decent post too, RR. I missed that part of this thread-that-doesn't-need-to-exist (and could have easily been sorted via an email or some PMs asking me for clarification before instead throwing a drama queen fit).

Sebastian J. wrote:THREAD OF THE MONTH!

Better than "So I Punched a Yuppie On the Way To Work Today"?

That's it? 6 pages? Come on.

Graham Hick wrote:That's it? 6 pages? Come on.

Black people.

I know some of them.

Adopt the language of morons, get called on it.

Hate or don't hate, I really don't care. That's your problem. My problem is what I see of you. What you do and what you say is all I care about, because other things, not being communicable, aren't my business.

When you choose to slur, I may have some idea if you mean it or not. The more I know you, the better my idea.

But outside of a very few examples of humor, I call a slur a mistake. Of all the things you could say or do, this is what you pick? Okay, but make a shitty choice, live with the repercussions.

And what exactly are the repercussions? Sure, many feel righteous indignation that is inherited and doctrinaire, spewed on cue with a ferocity that betrays a judgmental preoccupation with a group identity (anti-racist, progressive, etc.). And this as-one bleating is, like all bleating, noise.

But is entirely possible to repudiate slurs without having the slightest personal involvement in the slur, or in any group, or with any wider doctrine.

Slurs try my patience. They are signals to stop accepting input. They're credibility demerits. None of these thoughts assigns me any baggage - I just pay attention to what is said and done, and lament the human noise found therein.

Threats are dumb, but no less dumb than slurs. But I'd rather nobody around here hid behind what Horuss/AJ said as if his mistake is some kind of criticism shield.

At this point, it's time to mention that Sup, the lead apologist for slurs in this thread, has for a very long time here written and keeps writing stupid things about darker-skinned and spanish-speaking people. I find it weak and if I never read another one, I wouldn't mind one bit.

I just want to mention that anyone who denies my objection to this as some kind of groupthink is invited, in light of what I expressed above, to get fucked in the eye. I (alone and independently) object, I (alone and independently) find it stupid.

See how that works? I have a standard, and I use it.

Adopt the language of morons, get called on it.

-r

Go fuck yourself.

I was awoken up by some idiot who probably deserved a more fitting verbal beating but I wasn't capable at the time, didn't intend for him to hear it, and managed to put together something that wasn't even intentionally racist in the first place as my retaliatory insult to him being a douche. My initial story was trying to poke pun of my unintentional racism, which apparently I didn't articulate well enough because I tend to forget that other people don't think like me and don't automatically attribute my actions as hilarious sleep-deprived unintentional racism.