A word I'm entirely too familiar with is hypocrisy.
Have you noticed how many things are wrong conditionally and the condition is whom caused it?
Gas is over $4 when Biden or Obama is president: This is good. We're saving the planet, you should drive less!
Gas is over $4 when Trump is president: This is bad. There's no qualifier like there is for saving the planet.
Black people can be as racist as they want. Brown people can be as racist as they want.
Muslims can be as intolerant and homophobic as they want.
Indians can discriminate in hiring all they want.
If you're in a protected category, you can break the law for, literally, decades until you finally do something the press is concerned about. If you're not, you can catch a felony for behavior that didn't even seem like a crime when you did it (look up three felonies a day).
If you are in a protected category, any slight against you is a hate crime. If you are not, then even actual crime isn't treated as criminal in many cases; especially theft.
Speech and words are forbidden to you if you're white, straight and male. These same words may be freely used if you are not. There are no slurs about straight white men that are off limits to anyone.
Racism is racism regardless of whom does it.
Sexism is sexism regardless of whom does it.
Hate is hate.
Crime is criminal.
Discrimination is discrimination.
Now, to separate this rant from Storm Front...
I don't want it to be OK for white people to be racist. I want it to be wrong for ANYONE to be racist.
I don't want it to be OK for men to be sexist. I want it to be wrong for ANYONE to be sexist.
I don't want it to be OK for straight people to be intolerant. I want it to be wrong for ANYONE to be intolerant.
OR
I want it to be OK for EVERYONE to be racist, sexist or intolerant and let the games begin. Because nobody likes it, except straight white men, when that happens.
You want racism? We're good at it and only stopped because we were convinced that it was wrong.
What you're doing now is convincing us that, though racism was wrong, it was a mistake to stop being racist. Which isn't really related, but being punished for being racist without getting any credit for the work done to end racism by white people makes us feel a bit put upon.
The entire idea was that black people and white people were equal and could be the same.
That includes following the rules, obeying the law and observing the social norms. If we're equal, it's easy! If not, then you shouldn't be granted access to things you cannot handle. Like the children the Klan insists you are.
Why, in Gods sake, are you out there proving the inbred morons of the KKK right? Granted that it's just a stopped clock being right twice a day moment but it's getting uncanny how you announce the time twice a day.
In short, stop fucking around and actually join Western Civilization.
It's a great deal. Western Civ gave us the USA and "Liberty and Justice for all."
But that's not the only tool in the Western Civ toolbox. Fascism and Communism are from Western Civ too. You get to choose, but two of them you can vote your way into, not out of.
1 is 1.
Well said, sir :-) But I suspect this is another "minority opinion" that I happen to share... And have to admit annoyance that "Storm Front" got taken over like that... Weirdly I had no idea when the "Dresden Files" book of that name came out that it was an issue. But I guess I never bothered to look for neo-nazi silliness myself. Just me I suspect though...
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