This diary has nothing to do with Ted Rall. (everyone gets up and leaves the room.)
Instead I would like to discuss the weird mentality of this community.Instead of simply ignoring my previous diary...or dropping by to say fuck you...There were many people who decided to imply that I was someone else.
It started out as funny. Then got crazy.Someone implied that I WAS TED RALL.lmao
Then it got creepy with someone trying to bait me into displaying my personal artwork...for what purpose I don't know.I can only assume they wanted to reveal who I was in real life. (so they could harass me further?)
But then one comment gave me some insight in to the mentality of this community...or atleast some in a specific clique here.In the process of calling me a "zombie" or "sockpuppet" one user tried to twist my words to imply that I came here from a right wing blog. I replied saying that was childish (to twist my words)
...but then it hit me.
These people aren't like children.They are like old dogs holding on to their ignorance and REFUSING to learn new tricks. It's not that you can't teach them about racism and racial depictions.
THEY DON'T WANT TO LEARN.
With that I will stop trying.I see my efforts are better suited for YOUNGER communities that are more open minded and WANT to be inclusive. The people here are older.Most could be my parents. I know how hard it is to teach my parents about technology or shed their racial stereotypes that they hold. (Yes black people say racist shit too)
I post comments on other liberal blogs (also as jshooper) and will continue to discuss racism.As for Daily Kos.
Well... I will continue to READ the site.I will comment on stories I find interesting.That's about it.
6:12 PM PT: I have a coworker that is gay. He had to inform many people (conservative minded) in our office that referring to negative things as "gay" was offensive to him. He has since educated many people in the office about things that are important to the LGBT community.
I can only imagine how things would have been different if the people in the office responded the way folks do here.What does it say when conservative frat bros are more open minded than people on an allegedly liberal blog.
6:41 PM PT: To the people calling me thin skinned...Please see Pluto's comment below.
These people are INSANE. This fool went in to the old archives of Bob Cesca's blog to read my comments. I'm just glad I didn't use my real face / artwork as my avatar.