I'm getting rather tired of living here with all these ninnies, and their sycophants.
We have developed a culture that thrives on being 'miffed'. A while back, I wrote on 'niggardly', as it had come up *here* (in Ukiah), after I thought the previous story would have sent everyone to the dictionary.
I've called the folks whose ancestors were from Africa: colored people, negroes, black people, African Americans, Afro-Americans, and 'Anglos' (NM is weird in their racial stereotyping).
Damn near any of the terms could result in some tirade on the part of one of them.
I don't normally defend Rush (nor do I like him), but really, I'm getting sick of people being 'put out'.
When I was a kid, and I was disturbed by people calling me names, my mom told me something to keep in mind that I've kept all along, "Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
Names will, in fact, never 'hurt' you. If you are hurt by a name, you've obviously done it to yourself. If that's not clear, well, then you must be a fuckin' retard, no?
I'm usually pretty amused by incidences where someone's chip falls off their shoulder and they bring the matter to *my* attention. The fact that you took my words and used them to hurt yourself isn't really my problem, yano?
On the other hand, you hurting yourself, blaming me, and then taking out any kind of 'revenge' on me for 'hurting' you is a problem of sorts for me.
I watch this defective mindset play itself out in the culture pretty regularly, but I don't see a whole lot of commentary on the 'cause' of the problem (defective, chip-shouldered, bad tempered idiots). I see them clamoring for their revenge, and I see a lot of apologies.
But I don't see enough commentary pointing out that the problem is *them*, so I wrote it myself.
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