I am a rich, white, man

Jul 26, 2009 21:34

I have shifted my happy, publicly consumable blogging to Facebook... but I still have depressed, un-public-worthy things to write. This unfortunately means that my LJ blog is going to degrade into a morass of self-deprecation. Nothing for it, I guess, that's just who I am ( Read more... )

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ghap July 29 2009, 06:04:11 UTC
Fuck the feminists, fuck the rebels, leave them behind as the poor useless self-destructive victims they are ( ... )

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hoserofdoom July 30 2009, 00:52:06 UTC
I'm not willing to go that far. I'm annoyed not so much at the anger directed at me as at my seeming inability to do anything useful in response. And I don't see anger as hate, necessarily. Yes, there are some folks who just dive in whole-hog and let themselves hate, but there are still plenty who are angry but sufficiently aware of themselves to refrain from hatred.

And we haven't reached a local maximum on many of these issues. There are good people working towards good ends by effective means: but they don't get the air time they deserve, because crazed ranting makes for better television. I'm just not one of them, and never will be.

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