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It's ridiculous how precarious searching the Internet can be. Here I am, trying to find out when Sherlock is going to air on BBC America because I really want to see it (and if anyone knows, could you please tell me since my Google-foo is such utter fail?) and instead I run into this article thing on the top-whatever crap Brits find annoying about Americans, then it's all Americans suck, and British suck, and patriotism and having a flag in front of your house is icky and our country speaks English better than your country and... yeah.
You know, for all our talk of celebrating diversity we (and by we I mean the entire human race) kind of suck at it (and please, please, please don't get into anything on the flaws of your country or our country or whatever. Every country has it's flaws and annoyances so I really don't care. Focus on the good, dang it. The good!).
Plus though I know the article was intended as a jest, I have major issues with the whole "lighten up, it was just a joke" mindset. Especially where something of an offensive nature is concerned. I feel "it was just a joke" a mask that people hide behind when they want to get away with being insulting. Some of you might recall me venting over a captioned picture that I found extremely offensive toward my religion, but what really rubbed me the wrong way was people being surprised over our offense. Well, of course we're offended, you just accused us of being pedophiles! And you expect us to have a good chuckle about it? Um, yeah, not possible.
Yeah, Google definitely hates me.
You know, for all our talk of celebrating diversity we (and by we I mean the entire human race) kind of suck at it (and please, please, please don't get into anything on the flaws of your country or our country or whatever. Every country has it's flaws and annoyances so I really don't care. Focus on the good, dang it. The good!).
Plus though I know the article was intended as a jest, I have major issues with the whole "lighten up, it was just a joke" mindset. Especially where something of an offensive nature is concerned. I feel "it was just a joke" a mask that people hide behind when they want to get away with being insulting. Some of you might recall me venting over a captioned picture that I found extremely offensive toward my religion, but what really rubbed me the wrong way was people being surprised over our offense. Well, of course we're offended, you just accused us of being pedophiles! And you expect us to have a good chuckle about it? Um, yeah, not possible.
Yeah, Google definitely hates me.
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Date: 2012-06-14 10:00 pm (UTC)From:Yeah, it's scary how fast and vicious retaliation can be when you voice an opinion. It's like you're suddenly enemy number one and the worst human being in the world just because you don't agree with or support something. What I really hate is when no one actually makes a point, they just try to see who can be the most insulting.
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Date: 2012-06-14 10:07 pm (UTC)From:Hatred like that has no point to make
It is mindless prattle.........
I know this is not the same, and it is minor compared to what you have shared, but that is how I have been received when I had the audacity to state I do not read slash, and even when I stated I would not beta it.........
It was like a personal affront to those who do.......
I never have demanded they give up their reading; they can therefore do me the same consideration by allowing me to voice my opinion........