Hey everybody!
Did you know that cherry picking quotes to fit your opinion is TOTALLY COOL!
Did you know that insulting billions of people is what everyone should be striving towards.
Did you know that I get stereotyped every day?
Insulted?
Pushed down?
Pidgeon holed?
You lot think you got it tough as furries, try being the monster of the week, when you've done nothing wrong
Try dealing with racism and severe religious discrimination every day.
And people see this as just some joke, or something that's a little irritating, but then the day when they realise what it feels like, they can't handle it. I've seen it happen. People pacing around, complaining to everyone, acting as if somehow discrimination is now something to be stopped, when before it was fine to insult people like that.
You know, whenever I get on my rather high horse, ranting on about how hundreds of innocent people are tortured every day by the government that I am ruled by. Or ranting on how blind people are or how incredibly racist and offensive some things are when no-one else notices because it's not against them. Whenever I rant about these things, I see it in people's faces, and sometimes they say it outright.
They start to see me as "The Angry Arab." "Achmed the Dead Terrorist." A ranting raving arab madman. Often, I will point out to them that not only am I not an Arab (not that it matters to them, all us foreigners are all the same. Even though I was born here and my mum was born here, just doesnt matter,) not only am I not an Arab, but I also am well within my rights to complain when I am discriminated against, or when I am offended.
But every time I complain, people shut down. All that crosses their minds is this image:
They can't see what I'm saying, they refuse to see.
My words won't change your mind.
It's just the way of the world.
So I give up. I just let it happen because there's nothing I can do. Just like every other minority that gets attacked, our skin just has to be that much thicker.
"BUT HEY!" some will say, "At least it's not the 70s when things were much worse!" and that's true. I know people who grew up back then and the effect is almost irreversible. It was getting better... slowly. The racism became less obvious, became more subtle. White guilt became fashionable. It didn't stop the racism, I mean the Bradford Riots happened for a reason, but it was less blatant. However, after September 11th, everything took a nose dive. The days afterwards, no muslim left their house unless their were in a big group, because people were out hunting.
sometimes it seems like the hunting hasn't stopped.
I know people who have been arrested more than once, held for hours, sometimes days without any evidence, without charge.
Jean Charles de Menezez was not a one-off incident... simply the most extreme example.
So what sparked off this little rant? read the shoutbox at the front of the site... and if in your mind, you see this:
Then say so. I would like to know how many people see that.
