Easier said than done, my dude. I appreciate your commenting though especially since I see your comments on various threads and you seem on my wavelength for sure. I work construction so exercise is hard to do since I'm always dead tired lol. I'm just trying to take it day by day.

 

I'm just saying that the person who asked people to stop using Pepe the Frog on the Decepticons (of Subeta) Discord server was not in the wrong, ok? And everyone was mostly cool about doing it, because even though they weren't using it to hurt people, they understood that other people HAD.

 

I've been fighting off depression since I was in grade school and I'm here for you too, dude.

If you work construction you probably get plenty of exercise; other things to watch are water (dehydration worsens depression) and protein (sometimes a big hunk of fresh, lightly cooked red meat helps a lot). I'm on meds and they're great, but the most important thing is that these feelings may seem like a giant patch of glue you will never get free of, but they always do go away. You just have to keep on living until they do, and get whatever help you can get.

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I'm starting to think "dogwhistle" is shorthand for "I really dislike said person/people/group and want to hate them and all they stand for, yet they haven't said anything that I can point out as corroborating my hatred. Oh, I know, I'll say that this is some super secret squirrel special bestest code to cue in all the people who are 'in the know' and get them to somehow commit invisible microaggressions that nobody can see. GrRrRrRrRr So BaD pEoPlE!!!!1!!@!!!"

Sort of like how "fascist/fascism" is now shorthand for "something I personally disagree with."

 

I appreciate you saying all that. I've fought with depression and anxiety since I was a kid. I do therapy and I'm on medication but it's still not enough a lot of the time. Maybe I do need to just eat a slab of beef, or at least I have a good excuse to. Thanks again.

 

kind of like how white supremacists (aka people who dislike a racial group and want to hate them and all they stand for without reason ) have secret numbers and signs to communicate with each other?

the kkk literally wears hoods to keep their identities secret dude. i have never met a nazi proudly flaunting "I AM A NAZI!!!!" as they beat up a minority because people like that are cowards and have to organize outside of regular society somehow.

i'm starting to think "blaming the people reacting to racists in an argument about racists" is shorthand for "i am a racist."

 

thanks for going in depth. i feel horrible for what i've done and you've brought up lots of good points.

 

I guess it's because I'm from NY but I've never met these supposed white supremacists. For something that's supposed to be a wide spread problem it's not very apparent or conspicuous.

All my African American friends feel the same way too.

Maybe it's a southern America thing but I always thought most of that was just a joke like saying they all marry their cousins.

Most likely it's the particular bents boogyman. Their tool for charging their base.

Both extreme sides are stupid as f*ck. They lap this shit up but most of it is bullshit.

 

well... i live in oklahoma and i've seen plenty. i have black friends that have had to deal with verbal and physical assault from casual racists literally in public. i'm half arabic and have had to deal with racist shit myself. it's not a joke. if it was a joke there would not be sundown towns. or people shouting "******" casually at people. and white supremacism isn't always guys in hoods marching on black neighborhoods, it does come in other forms... forms people conveniently overlook... like convincing a large portion of the united states that "asian/chinese people are responsible for this virus!" or forcing the native americans onto despondent reservations...

yes, both sides do tend to lap up whatever supports their argument. but if your argument is "stop racism" vs "be racist" that seems like a pretty clear cut issue.

 

I guess to your last comment. I don't really believe there's much of a be a racist movement though.

I'm white and I've experienced racism. I've literally been beaten up for venturing too far in South Bronx. Because I'm a white boy. Been called cracker and pinky too.

I don't attribute that to all people of a certain decent though. Assholes come in all colors.

Also fight racism shouldn't end with by racism.

 

People that vote or act against their own best interests.

 

... the KKK is literally a movement that's been around since the days of the civil war advocating for, well, racism. last year civil protests were undermined by government officials trying to turn them into violent ones. the entire reagan administration. hell, during black lives matter marches people literally got ran over and the police didn't do anything except wait for more peaceful protests to crop up so they could go teargas and beat them too.

i'm sorry you had a bad experience but you also see why cracker and pinky aren't exactly the same as ******, right? and it's not like you watched an effigy of a white guy being burnt. assholes come in all colors but whenever a bunch of assholes of one color literally want all the other colors dead that's a different scenario.

 

I get what you're saying but you do realize that the KKK is not even one percent of the white population though, right? They're not a legit threat to most minorities. They're a bunch of backwoods dumb f*cks who make a lot of noise but are so small in number that you could be forgiven for ignoring them. They're not Cobra from the Joe-verse. More like an Elk Lodge. Just laugh at them. They have no power.

Taken in historical context, yes,being called cracker isn't the same. But we should be at a point now where all racism is equally wrong.
I genuinely don't understand why we aren't.

 

they're not a legit threat until you stop treating them as one and they fly under the radar.

all racism isn't equal because not all races are given the same equity under modern society. giving minority X a "headstart" when majority Y got the headstart 5 years ago is not at all the same. we should be at a point where all racism is treated equally, but until all people are seen equally then that's not going to happen.

 

Right now it is California's bullshit fires invading my personal breathing space here in Colorado. All morning long so far as I feel like I've been doing is breathin in non-stop smoke. It's also made it ridiculously hot despite being in the upper 70s. They need to control their bullshit because this is has been an issue all fucking summer!

 

I enjoyed our convo (seriously). Just ask that you consider that most of the impoverished communities (I grew up in one) are under a certain dominions jurisdiction. If they don't have the racism angle they have nothing that anyone would care much about. It's in their favor to have one so they like to stoke those flames and actually keep it that way.

Not saying there's not a genuine issue there but I am saying that they don't have the answer. They're part of the problem.

I'm not an apologist for the other flag. I have plenty to say about them too. I just want a world where both of them leave me the f*ck alone and stay out of my life.

 

for sure and there's people like that everywhere. that's just a smaller example of the larger issue and with the colors swapped. racism like anything else comes down to a desire to rule over others and race is just another convenient way for them to latch onto some kind of cause that they swear is just.

fly no banner and honor no flag besides the one that says humanity. that's all it comes down to. i kind of get the skepticism on G1prowl's part but look at the bigger picture and realize the real issue isn't the racist old coot on the street... it's the people at the top. all the dissemination of citizens and this infighting is what they want. not to get too political but most politicians and LEO's don't care who's being infringed on as long as it's not them. hell, an incredibly notorious government official is on record as admitting to smoking marijuana. she's a black female who served as a DA putting millions of people behind bars for the same crime she committed. a crime that largely punishes black communities because of slippery politicians. when people of your *own* race sell your race down the river it's time to abandon ship.

eat the rich is what i'm getting at here. kinda like how instead of fighting each other over whether or not the planet is dying we should be pressing all the billionaires for why they want to get off so badly...

 

Right on!