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"...nothing makes me gag harder than trying to swallow some hamfisted moral message with a sappy soundtrack backing it up."
This is bullshit. I'm a sucker for plotlines and characters, and have happily choked down MANY a craphappy morality tale as the result of empathizing with...
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jeez babe want a valium or a drink or something
LOL gotta admit i love ur language
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allisonation said:
Thanks for the link! I'm not sure, though, that I would feel comfortable drawing a line between racial insensitivity and racism when it comes to a political figure or forum, if only because I'm suspicious that if "racial insensitivity" is detectable in a public figure, said figure is likely to work from a racist agenda. Hm. That was badly worded, but I'll keep trying. In other words, racism can be such a political minefield (sadly, not to a strong enough extent, if you ask me) that--jeez, someone lend me a cliche here--where there's smoke, there's a burning cross.
Heh. You're talking to a man with a well-ensconced reputation for immoderate denunciations of unsavory sentiments. That being said, I do think that there's often a difference between passive insensitivity - which seems to me more about not recognizing the other's perspective as legitimate, and which cuts across political lines - and active devaluation, which is the special proclivity of reactionaries.
Anyway.
Point taken. I might still insist that racism does to some extent merit at least a heated response, even where it's merely suspect; then again, I might also counter that reactionism does more to harm than to help anything it touches, even defensively.
That said: You shut up. No, YOU shut up. He started it. Nuh-uh.
(I'm tired, half-delirious, and have only written two of fifteen pages on a paper that was due last Thursday. Thank you for serving as an eloquent distraction.)
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Every year I buy a bag of candy corn...completely forgetting that the year before I had sworn to never touch that God-forsaken crap ever again.
Okay, so it's not a tumah. But golly-fuckshit, it sure feels like one. This is the third consecutive day that's woken me up with a pounding, smashing, stabbing headache. I can't explain it, but it really sucks.
So, I hate it when people ring my doorbell. I pretty much hate it when people come to my door, and I could...
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When I first heard this song, I wondered how much it was influenced by the book (and subsequent BBC TV Show), "The Buddha of Suburbia". David Bowie did the soundtrack to the show, so maybe it was something Green Day had heard about...
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