WHAT IS GOING ON IN YOUR BRAIN?!

The ignorance, the selfishness, the plain inability to be empathetic and understanding. If you don’t understand the movement, the sentiment, behind Black Lives Matter you are not fit to involve yourself in any conversations about it. Your opinion isn’t helping. You’re not convincing anyone with your inept arguments. The only thing you are doing is expressing your intense disapproval of equality and progress. When you say, “All Lives Matter,” you’re neglecting a history of blatant violence, current systemic racism, and ignoring a plea to society for the equal treatment of black lives. I’m not sure how may times we have to say, Black Lives Matter does NOT mean, nobody else’s lives matter. What it means is there has been an unbalanced injustice in the black community, and this statement is calling attention to it. It doesn’t literally mean ONLY BLACK LIVES MATTER. YOU ARE ADDING IN WORDS. What I want to understand is why you can’t admit that you’re refusal to understand the movement is an implicit indication of racism or racist tendencies? Think about it. What other reason is keeping you from even reading about the plight of black people in America. What other reason is preventing you from sympathizing with the countless families who have lost wives, husbands, brothers, sisters, cousins, aunts, uncles, GRANDPARENTS, friends. What other possible reason can there be except you don’t think their black lives are more important than “police procedure,” which let’s get this straight, is obviously, perpetually being broken, shattered, tossed aside. 

That’s what it sounds like when you tell black people that the reason the police are shooting us is because we’re doing something “wrong,” we’re “not complying with the police,” or my favorite, “look like criminals.” If you don’t want to accept the fact you’re inherently racist, at least accept the fact that your prejudice is so astounding, that in all of your efforts you prove that you don’t believe “All Lives Matter” because you have zero compassion for those black people who lost theirs. I don’t understand why you get upset when people call you racist, yet you continue to exhibit racist behavior? It’s like you’re someone who’s afraid of heights, but won’t admit it and instead tell people, I just don’t want to be too far from the ground. JUST ADMIT IT. 

The thing is, you won’t, because you have no desire to change. You think everyone is out to get you and take away your rights, when in reality, we’re all just fighting to have the same rights. You won’t admit your fault because the term PC is bewilderingly offensive to you and the thought of being mindful of others’ feelings and concerns personally peeves to you. Instead of looking to figure out the stem of this discontent, you would rather relish in the rhetoric of a narcissistic megalomaniac who is hellbent on entrenching within this country homophobic, racist, and xenophobic polices that you wholeheartedly support. What made you so hateful and so angry that the thought of helping your fellow man or witnessing a weary outcry of a beleaguered community enrages you to the point where you leave comments like this on Ben & Jerry’s Facebook page:

Tom Bearman Lent  - Sade black lives matter does revolve around white people. Because within the context of BLM black lives only matter when a black person is killed by a white person. BLM doesn’t care about black on black,black on Hispanic or any other combination. You guys protest the vaugest of shut and use it as an excuse to attack white people.

Maximillian Shen As an Asian American, I see BLM being very similar to a domestic terrorist organization (disrupting others’ lives, threatening to kill non-blacks, etc.) Guess I will avoid Ben & Jerry’s for a while.

Jonathan Barclay I agree there is a problem. But when BLM openly advocates the murder of police officers then your movement lost all credibility. Like the KKK they are a terrorist organization. And your support of them causes me to now refuse to buy my favorite ice cream. I support accountability. FOR EVERYONE!

Jon Michael Necaise I will not be buying your products again since you support a extremely racist terror group who calls for the death of all white people and police. Fuck you Ben & Jerry’s

I’M SO TIRED.

*This post is not just for non-POC, but for anyone who feels the BLM movement is offensive.

Privilege Man. Privilege.

Reading about privilege is mildly irritating when you’re not subjected to it everyday. Though, witnessing privilege is like having someone with halitosis speaking to you in such close proximity their hot breath feels like it’s permeating your skin. It’s as pleasant as hearing that damn ice cream truck outside your window for hours on end and then it stops and goes and stops and goes, then it sounds like it’s a CD being scratched, then it gets louder and softer. It sounds like it might be leaving. The engine starts, but no. It starts up again, from the beginning and it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on….

Here’s the scenario: Waiting in line for Friday the 13th tattoos behind a girl covered in tats and annoyingly talkative who has no concept of humanity or humility.

The waiting in line would have been absolutely fine if we weren’t stuck behind the most obnoxious human being on the planet and her friend. It was a hot day. My nerves were already on edge because they were being slow cooked by the sun. So, this girl in front of us discussing matters of friendships and their complications with an air of superiority, while dismissively explaining why her friend (not present) decided they “can’t do this anymore,” nearly sent me over the edge into a blind violent rage. 

First, she was talking about how she knew everyone in the tattoo shop and that one of the tattoos was of a dog she knew. These useless fun facts she was spewing to her bored-looking friend were seemingly endless. She knew this person and that person. She knew which tattoo artist did “those tattoos,” she rattled on, as people came out of the shop, their tattoos covered. Her father owns a huge company and she also owns a small one. She was a interested in this and that. Blah blah blah. I knew more about her than my friend standing next to me by the end of the few hours we were trapped behind her, however, the most infuriating thing that came out of her mouth wasn’t the continuous name-dropping or shameless bragging, it was something she said in defense of herself. 

She was telling her friend who seemed to be practicing that thing where you escape your body in times of duress but keep your eyes open. This girl, let’s call her BB for Braggy Bragster, was telling her friend, the poor vacant-eyed one, that she got in a fight with another friend of hers who wasn’t present (how BB had friends in the first place is a whole different query). According to BB, this friend of hers elected to stop talking to her because she claimed BB wasn’t a real adult. Why? BB’s parents were paying her rent and most likely a host of other things, and this friend felt this made BB irresponsible. BB was obviously hurt by these remarks as she laughed heartily at the claim and stated, “It’s not my fault my parents care about me,” then she said, “I can’t help it if my parents love me more than hers.” FLOORED. 

How she can so painlessly admit her ignorance with those few statements and have utterly no idea about how inherently wrong it is to assume someone’s parents don’t love them because they cannot afford to pay for their child(ren)’s rent was cray cray. That’s when I knew she was a grade A psycho. Something already rubbed me the wrong way about her before she even mentioned her “loving parents.” It may have been the way she spoke so loudly as if her thoughts and ideas needed to be heard over everyone else’s conversation. It may have been the things she chose to talk about like how she didn’t know where she was going to get her next tattoo because she “had so many already.” It may have also been the way she butted into my conversation with my friend and within seconds told us her father owned such and such and that she grew up with “the business in her blood.” *Eye roll.* It’s amazing how modesty can completely change the way you see someone in the exact same financial situation. The problem is not that her father pays her rent, the problem is that she doesn’t find the harm in what she’s saying. The problem is that she was completely oblivious to how insensitive remarks like that can be. The problem is that she is so privileged she has no issue with defending herself in the most despicable way possible. Her parents are well off. I get that. That is great, I wish everyone’s parents could pay their children’s rents or whatever, but the thing here is being mindful of the reasons why not everyone has that opportunity. We’re living in a society that has immeasurable discrepancies in wages for workers in all sorts of fields. The reason Daddy Dearest was able to afford paying for whatever is because he is being paid an exorbitant amount of money while his workers are being paid substantially less. It’s called capitalism and it effects quite a large portion of society, but this girl, DD, was not privy to the facts or plain blissfully unwilling to acknowledge them. Weeks after the fact, I am still reeling from her unbearable presence.

And now, I hear an actor who plays one of my most beloved fictional characters is also a bigot. WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?! WHY SIRIUS BLACK?! WHYYYYYYYY?! OH AND ZORG! WTF!?

So, who does he hate?

I think Playboy secretly has it out to uncover every bigoted celebrity, which is kinda funny. Remember that interview with John Mayer where he claimed his dick was a klan member? Yeah, good stuff. People suck.

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I don’t even need those examples in nature to know how wrong that thought process is. So disgusted (as usual) by FoxNews.

Never Gonna Get It

I will never understand the hate that people have inside of them for gay people. I can never “see it their way” when it comes to having such vile notions about someone’s personal life. What is it that makes people so angry about sexuality? What repressed emotions are they harboring to feel the need to lash out with such irrational violence? Why is it anyone’s business who anyone’s attracted to and how the hell does that have an affect on a person’s moral code? How dare anyone claim loving another human being is wrong? Why can’t people see the blatant ignorance that is being perpetuated through these self righteous institutions? Why are there laws or lack of laws reflecting these bigoted ideas? Why can’t people just mind their own business? No one asked for your opinion about someone else’s life. I will never understand.