Ugh, twitter man, you don't get to base your argument on "Me and Folks I know" and then complain that the the argument in The New Jim Crow is one-sided, you persistent pothead idiot.(Is my fault for again underestimating how people cling to their own stupidity. Also, he fought the law and the law won--apparently it has left him with more time on his hands than even I have. Wish you'd pulled this crap on ita--but she might not have been dumb enough to wade in.But if she did, she'd shut your ass up.
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erikaj - Jun 24, 2015 7:42:10 pm PDT #20147 of 30002
Always Anti-fascist!
WindSparrow - Jun 24, 2015 8:26:57 pm PDT #20148 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Hee hee hee hee, I just paid off my car loan. Whew!
askye - Jun 24, 2015 8:45:03 pm PDT #20149 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
YAY!!
Calli - Jun 25, 2015 1:48:39 am PDT #20150 of 30002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Congrats, WindSparrow!
Erika, I'm sorry your writing hasn't found the right editor yet.
askye - Jun 25, 2015 4:25:19 am PDT #20151 of 30002
Thrive to spite them
so I have a facebook page for my Second life alterego (seems the best way to put that) and normally it's just comments on friends pictures...and well a few of us are in an epic poke back war (I know how FB intended it but we're using it like some were game of tag).
Anyway a few people also use their RL accounts since, technically, having anything other than your real name on FB is against TOS but I think that's a shitty rule and do what I want.
I'm getting somewhere I promise. One of hte people who posts under her real account shared one of those things about how the Confederate flag doesn't glorify racism and people who want to get rid of it are tryign to take "our" way of life away from us and blah blah.
So cribbing of the Atlantic article I basically quoted the most blatant parts that mentioned slavery. I have no idea what the reaction will be and maybe I should have just let this one pass. But read the damn declarations for succession - they all boil down to - the North is trying to take away our way of life and livelihood and that means slavery.
WindSparrow - Jun 25, 2015 4:57:55 am PDT #20152 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
askye, I think you were right for saying something. I think too many times those of us who are white and trying to not be racist settle for simply rolling our eyes and feeling uncomfortable about other white people who insist that some racist thing they want to do is not racist. It's hard to speak up, but necessary.
WindSparrow - Jun 25, 2015 4:57:56 am PDT #20153 of 30002
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Zenkitty - Jun 25, 2015 7:51:57 am PDT #20154 of 30002
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Echoing WS, I think you were right, too, askye.
And congrats on owning your car, WS!
Nora Deirdre - Jun 25, 2015 8:20:43 am PDT #20155 of 30002
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
askye, I think you were right for saying something. I think too many times those of us who are white and trying to not be racist settle for simply rolling our eyes and feeling uncomfortable about other white people who insist that some racist thing they want to do is not racist. It's hard to speak up, but necessary.
YES!! I am shamefully very, very bad about it. Many props to you.
SailAweigh - Jun 25, 2015 8:38:20 am PDT #20156 of 30002
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I don't get over to facebook all that much, but I have no desire to be over there, right now. I don't think I have anybody on my friends list that have any attachment to it, but they may have friends who do. And I'm never good at coherent off the cuff smackdowns, so I'm an eyeroller. But, I will support the smart ones with likes!