Monday, March 19, 2012
Albert Einstein
People might think I'm a major bitch, and in a lot of ways that is completely true. However, when you give me the chance to be, I am the best friend you could ever have. I stick by the people I care about no matter what, and even if they're wrong I still do my best to have their back and support them, even if they don't think so because I tell them the truth and that I think they're making a mistake. If somebody I care about has a problem or something going on in their lives, I am more than happy to listen and help as much as I can. However, there comes a point when I just can't take it, when I can't listen to somebody make the same shitty choices and the same mistakes over and over. It hurts me to watch somebody I care about screw themselves over when they refuse to listen to anything I or anyone else has to say. I understand that everybody is free to make their own choices in life, but I can't listen to somebody I care for cry to me on a regular basis and do nothing to fix their situation, especially when I become the bad guy for trying to help or give advice, or just for telling them the truth. I'm not the kind of person who's gonna sugarcoat my words or agree with you on everything, it's just not who I am. If I think you're being stupid, I'm gonna tell you you're being stupid. After a while it takes an emotional toll on me to listen to somebody tell me all these horrible things and be such a Debbie Downer all the time while doing nothing to change their situation or fix their problems. Albert Einstein said it best "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." And as a friend, it's hard to watch somebody keep doing the same things with the same shitty results. I don't think it makes me a bad friend or a bad person not to be able to deal with it after a while, and to end a friendship or just kind of distance myself from somebody who becomes toxic because they are in a toxic situation. There comes a point where you have to put yourself first; when a relationship starts doing more harm than good, be it a family, a friend, or a significant other.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Indifference
A viral video called Kony 2012 has been circulating all over Facebook. For those of you who haven't seen it, it is about Joseph Kony, who has been trafficking children in Africa for 23 years. He has raped and abused over 30,000 children, forced them to work as sexual slaves for grown men, forced them to work as militants, and made them torture and kill their own parents. It has been going on for decades and nobody knew about it. First off, the fact that nobody was aware that it was happening is messed up, but the people who are now aware of it that are saying who cares, there's nothing we can do to stop it, people are just sheep it's been happening for 23 years and now all of a sudden it's cool to care disgust me. That kind of indifference and shitty me-first attitude is what lets this kind of thing continue, because nobody cares.
Snooki's pregnancy has been all over the news and all over the internet, but the murder, rape, and abuse of over 30,000 children went unnoticed. Is it just me, or is that beyond messed up? It says a lot about our society and the world we live in when a reality show airhead getting knocked up is more important than the suffering of thousands of kids. Teen Mom stars make 200,000 dollars a season and are all over tv and magazines and the internet just for getting pregnant while still in high school, while kids in Africa are being beaten and starved and forced into sexual slavery, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. Personally, I find it disgusting and think it speaks for our society as a whole that people care more about celebrity gossip than world issues. If reality TV is more important to you than human suffering, you need to take a good long look in the mirror and think about what kind of person you really are.
I have seen an appalling number of people saying they don't care and we can't do anything about it so it's not important, or that it's been happening for decades and we didn't do anything about it so why do we care now. Most people were not aware that this has been going on for decades, and now that we are aware we need to spread the word because IT MATTERS. You're sitting on your laptop or your smartphone in your nice clothes with indoor plumbing and a fridge full of food talking about how HUMAN SUFFERING doesn't matter and isn't important. When have you honestly suffered? When have you been starved and beaten and forced to torture and kill your loved ones, or used as a sex toy at the age of 10? I'm not saying you need to sell all your possessions and donate the money to charity, but the least you can do is care. Ignorance isn't cool. Selfishness isn't cool. Going against the grain and saying you don't give a crap about atrocious crimes being committed against children is horrible and selfish and makes you sound like a terrible person. YOU are the kind of person that allowed these kind of things to keep happening. I cannot stress enough that if everyone was aware of world issues and cared about people other than themselves, something would be done about things like this. People would listen, governments would listen instead of turning a blind eye. INDIFFERENCE is as much to blame for atrocities being allowed to continue as the people who actually commit the heinous acts, and that needs to change.
Snooki's pregnancy has been all over the news and all over the internet, but the murder, rape, and abuse of over 30,000 children went unnoticed. Is it just me, or is that beyond messed up? It says a lot about our society and the world we live in when a reality show airhead getting knocked up is more important than the suffering of thousands of kids. Teen Mom stars make 200,000 dollars a season and are all over tv and magazines and the internet just for getting pregnant while still in high school, while kids in Africa are being beaten and starved and forced into sexual slavery, and nobody seems to have a problem with that. Personally, I find it disgusting and think it speaks for our society as a whole that people care more about celebrity gossip than world issues. If reality TV is more important to you than human suffering, you need to take a good long look in the mirror and think about what kind of person you really are.
I have seen an appalling number of people saying they don't care and we can't do anything about it so it's not important, or that it's been happening for decades and we didn't do anything about it so why do we care now. Most people were not aware that this has been going on for decades, and now that we are aware we need to spread the word because IT MATTERS. You're sitting on your laptop or your smartphone in your nice clothes with indoor plumbing and a fridge full of food talking about how HUMAN SUFFERING doesn't matter and isn't important. When have you honestly suffered? When have you been starved and beaten and forced to torture and kill your loved ones, or used as a sex toy at the age of 10? I'm not saying you need to sell all your possessions and donate the money to charity, but the least you can do is care. Ignorance isn't cool. Selfishness isn't cool. Going against the grain and saying you don't give a crap about atrocious crimes being committed against children is horrible and selfish and makes you sound like a terrible person. YOU are the kind of person that allowed these kind of things to keep happening. I cannot stress enough that if everyone was aware of world issues and cared about people other than themselves, something would be done about things like this. People would listen, governments would listen instead of turning a blind eye. INDIFFERENCE is as much to blame for atrocities being allowed to continue as the people who actually commit the heinous acts, and that needs to change.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Racism
Some people may not like this post and find it offensive, but personally I couldn't care less. I do not like affirmative action, and I do not like black history month. Everybody makes a huge deal out of it being black history month, but why isn't there a white history month, or a Jewish history month, and why doesn't anyone care about September being hispanic heritage month? Or better yet, why can't there just be an AMERICAN history month? It's ok for African Americans to have all black schools, all black tv stations, all black magazines, but if there was any of that stuff for whites it would be considered racist. A black girl can talk smack to me for being white and that's acceptable, but if I talk smack to her for being black then I'm a horrible person and everyone is outraged. If people would stop acting like blacks, whites, Mexicans, Asians, whatever are all completely different and treating them differently, racism wouldn't be as much of a big deal.
I do not like Affirmative Action. I think at one point it was necessary, but now it's just ridiculous. Employers should hire based ONLY on who is the best person for the job, not have to fill a quota of a certain number of minorities and a certain number of handicapped and a certain number of women. It should be based on skills and qualifications, not skin color. It's absurd that even though I deserve a job, I could be passed over just because I'm white and they need more diversity. A big reason that racism is still an issue is because of the special treatment given to minorities, specifically African Americans. I also do not like Black History Month, because it makes it seem like African Americans are different from the rest of us. There should be AMERICAN history month, a month dedicated just to people without differentiating based on skin color or heritage. Singling out one race defeats the point of equality, that isn't equality at all.
There are all black colleges, all black magazines, the BET network which is targeted towards African Americans, but if there was any of that stuff for whites people would be very quick to throw a fit and be outraged and offended and say it was racist. How is it ok for one race to have their own stuff separate from the rest of us, but nobody else can? Having all of these things is just singling out blacks and once again treating them like they're different from the rest of us. It's almost like minorities are allowed to discriminate and seclude themselves but whites can't or it's wrong. I don't think any race should be able to single themselves out and have special tv stations or anything else that's just for them, I think it's wrong no matter what color your skin is. Having all this stuff geared towards people with a certain skin color is only segregating yourself, by doing things like that and excluding other races it just reinforces the race barriers rather than tearing them down. Even Morgan Freeman, one of the most educated black men I have ever seen, thinks that Black History Month is ridiculous and unnecessary and promotes stereotypes and segregation rather than getting rid of them.
Contrary to popular opinion, not only white people are racist. I know plenty of blacks who are racist against white people, and oddly enough nobody cares. Nobody is gonna make a huge deal about a black girl talking smack to me and calling me white girl, but if I did the same thing to her I would probably get jumped and called a racist and a horrible person. Racism is wrong no matter what your skin color is, and there is just as much racism towards whites as there is towards other races. Allowing other races to bash whites and if it's the other way around it's a hate crime is hypocrisy at it's finest, and it should be considered wrong and offensive no matter what, but it's not. That isn't equality, that's giving special treatment to certain people just because their skin color ISN'T white. It's not any harder to be black than it is to be white or purple or green or anything else. It's hard to be a person, life can be tough regardless of your skin color or heritage, and to say it's harder for a certain person based only on the color of their skin is ridiculous. In the 1960's that was true, but it's 2012 and ignorance and bigotry come in every color.
I know people are going to read this and be outraged and offended and call me ignorant or a racist, and they will only be proving my point so have at it. People should just be people, NOBODY should get special treatment or special accommodations based on the color of their skin. If people want equality, everything should actually be equal. It should be considered wrong and ignorant and a hate crime to hate anyone based on their skin color, not only blacks. Nobody should be judged based on their race, and all of the things I mentioned in this post do nothing to promote equality, they actually do the opposite.
I do not like Affirmative Action. I think at one point it was necessary, but now it's just ridiculous. Employers should hire based ONLY on who is the best person for the job, not have to fill a quota of a certain number of minorities and a certain number of handicapped and a certain number of women. It should be based on skills and qualifications, not skin color. It's absurd that even though I deserve a job, I could be passed over just because I'm white and they need more diversity. A big reason that racism is still an issue is because of the special treatment given to minorities, specifically African Americans. I also do not like Black History Month, because it makes it seem like African Americans are different from the rest of us. There should be AMERICAN history month, a month dedicated just to people without differentiating based on skin color or heritage. Singling out one race defeats the point of equality, that isn't equality at all.
There are all black colleges, all black magazines, the BET network which is targeted towards African Americans, but if there was any of that stuff for whites people would be very quick to throw a fit and be outraged and offended and say it was racist. How is it ok for one race to have their own stuff separate from the rest of us, but nobody else can? Having all of these things is just singling out blacks and once again treating them like they're different from the rest of us. It's almost like minorities are allowed to discriminate and seclude themselves but whites can't or it's wrong. I don't think any race should be able to single themselves out and have special tv stations or anything else that's just for them, I think it's wrong no matter what color your skin is. Having all this stuff geared towards people with a certain skin color is only segregating yourself, by doing things like that and excluding other races it just reinforces the race barriers rather than tearing them down. Even Morgan Freeman, one of the most educated black men I have ever seen, thinks that Black History Month is ridiculous and unnecessary and promotes stereotypes and segregation rather than getting rid of them.
Contrary to popular opinion, not only white people are racist. I know plenty of blacks who are racist against white people, and oddly enough nobody cares. Nobody is gonna make a huge deal about a black girl talking smack to me and calling me white girl, but if I did the same thing to her I would probably get jumped and called a racist and a horrible person. Racism is wrong no matter what your skin color is, and there is just as much racism towards whites as there is towards other races. Allowing other races to bash whites and if it's the other way around it's a hate crime is hypocrisy at it's finest, and it should be considered wrong and offensive no matter what, but it's not. That isn't equality, that's giving special treatment to certain people just because their skin color ISN'T white. It's not any harder to be black than it is to be white or purple or green or anything else. It's hard to be a person, life can be tough regardless of your skin color or heritage, and to say it's harder for a certain person based only on the color of their skin is ridiculous. In the 1960's that was true, but it's 2012 and ignorance and bigotry come in every color.
I know people are going to read this and be outraged and offended and call me ignorant or a racist, and they will only be proving my point so have at it. People should just be people, NOBODY should get special treatment or special accommodations based on the color of their skin. If people want equality, everything should actually be equal. It should be considered wrong and ignorant and a hate crime to hate anyone based on their skin color, not only blacks. Nobody should be judged based on their race, and all of the things I mentioned in this post do nothing to promote equality, they actually do the opposite.
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