June 2020 archive

Differences between prejudice and racism.

White people can not be the subjects of racism (as in, you can’t be “racist” against white people).

Racism requires an imbalance in the power dynamic. For instance, African-Americans can — and obviously very often are, as evidenced by the number of African-American men dying at the hands of policemen in the United States of america — be the subject of racism. Asian-Americans can. Hispanics can. Indigenous individuals can. Those of Middle Eastern descent or heritage can. Individuals of mixed ancestry can as well. But predominantly white individuals who do not feel the effects of not being able to “pass” can not be the subjects of racism. They can feel the effects of prejudice, although it might be and generally is in different ways, and they can be marginalized in other ways that do not make their lives more difficult on account of their ancestry, ethnicity, or race — they can be disabled, for instance. They can be LBGT. They can be female. They can be one or more of those things. They can be any combination of those things. But their life is not made more difficult because of their ethnicity or the color of their skin if I’m making sense composing this.

Obviously writing posts on 300mg Trokendi and 5mg lisinopril, which is fun to spell, is not the most fun.

All lives won’t matter equally until black lives matter, which is why I think “all lives matter” is garbage.

And don’t even get me started on the whole “blue lives matter” crap, which I do think is absolute garbage.

I wear these Twitter blocks like a badge of honor.

A list of people that I have been blocked by on Twitter, by the way:
· Onision (on both of his accounts)
· Blaire White
· the casting director for Big Brother and several other shows
· Lori Alexander, The Transformed Wife
· the Catholic bishop of Tyler

I don’t think I’m missing any, but if I am I can always come back and revise this.

I tend not to block people myself unless they make it clear that they are attempting to gaslight in conversations or debates, or unless they actually invoke various Hitler fallacies. In instances like those, that is when (as the Generation Z kids like to say) I am “done”. Or if I politely ask someone to stop mentioning me on Facebook or Twitter and they continue, especially when my phone’s notifications are on, and they keep on doing it — especially when more than one of them do it and they “tag” people in. You can just get blocked.

Oerba’s theme songs will never not be my jam.

The puzzles were extremely annoying to solve in Final Fantasy XIII-2, but I absolutely love these songs!

I actually love the songs from this entire trilogy of games, even though I still haven’t finished Lightning Returns… I swear I’ll eventually get around to finishing it. I will, I will. I hate the doomsday clock mechanic.

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