The hysteria around "Somail pirates" has never sat well with me, but I never knew concretely why. Luckily, fightingwords is on my friends page and posts things to help clarify.
i am so glad i read this again. i am so frustrated with the whole thing. as i am driving to work, listening to our local dance/gay radio station, greg the gay sports caster repeatedly says: i usually dont condone killing people, but KILL THE PIRATES.
he said this over and over and again and it reminded me of why i stopped listening to this radio station after the inaug. all he did was talk about how fat aretha was.
but i digress. i am going to share this article with everyone i know.
people can be so hateful and short-sighted and ignorant and mean, all for the supposed sake of being cool, clever, pithy. i need to take a break from the internet today though, because my reaction all day has "stop being stupid and mean because i want to scream in your face and stab you in the eyeball so hard" and that is not exactly healthy either!!
but i do kinda want to stab that DJ in the eyeball for you, too.
i just posted this on your friends LJ when i meant to reply to you.
Date: 2009-04-13 05:23 pm (UTC)he said this over and over and again and it reminded me of why i stopped listening to this radio station after the inaug. all he did was talk about how fat aretha was.
but i digress. i am going to share this article with everyone i know.
Re: i just posted this on your friends LJ when i meant to reply to you.
Date: 2009-04-13 05:38 pm (UTC)but i do kinda want to stab that DJ in the eyeball for you, too.