~~ of wank, ethics & graffiti
Oct. 15th, 2003 05:46 pmThere's nothing quite like the glorious nothingness of wasting time. And there's just no new H/D porn anywhere in sight to relieve the horrid image of actually -working- from hanging over my mortal soul. This is actually like... the evil of lj. 'Cause I can always just... write something utterly insignificant instead of anything else. People who don't have a friends list of more than 20 definitely have the right idea, man, especially if they're addictive types like me. No, seriously. You should never really take comments to comments as indicators of -anything-, let alone whether someone likes you (and then if they -do- like you, it's not like you can now run for the president of the United States). But sayin' it is easy, man. Sayin' it is easy. Damn, I'm glad I'm antisocial, or I'd be embarrassed every time I spoke (why did they say that? why didn't they say that? why didn't they say that to -me-? why -did- they say that to me, I don't deserve it, it's not the right time, it doesn't make sense, this means... this means....) This means I have to step -away- from the computer. -.-
So I was away-- in the dining hall-- and I was reading the student newspaper with its front page story about the offensive spray-painting in one of the residence halls, and the whole kerfuffle about it the administration's making. Sigh.
Dude :T
I'm really easily offended by things, I really am. I also hate offending anyone whatsoever. I don't want to upset people and pretty much do whatever i can not to come close, simply because it's too much for me to deal with. I shut up, mostly. But my university's lastest reaction to another stupid brush with "hate crime"-- which is to say, racist slurs and genitalia spray-painted inside a dorm, possibly as part of `50 Cent' lyrics-- disturbs me. It's all "how could they" and "those tasteless morons don't belong in a university". Sigh.
This got me thinking about how interesting it is that "hate speech" isn't covered by the First Amendment. It's not "sticks and stones" by a long shot, but people have refused to hear/tolerate certain things since time immemorial, no surprise there. Even so, it's hypocritical as all hell, and it's making me question my professed distate for certain phrasings (like the word `gays', which I've ranted about before).
( And then there's this interesting connection between `hate speech' and what we like to call `wank'.... )
So I was away-- in the dining hall-- and I was reading the student newspaper with its front page story about the offensive spray-painting in one of the residence halls, and the whole kerfuffle about it the administration's making. Sigh.
Dude :T
I'm really easily offended by things, I really am. I also hate offending anyone whatsoever. I don't want to upset people and pretty much do whatever i can not to come close, simply because it's too much for me to deal with. I shut up, mostly. But my university's lastest reaction to another stupid brush with "hate crime"-- which is to say, racist slurs and genitalia spray-painted inside a dorm, possibly as part of `50 Cent' lyrics-- disturbs me. It's all "how could they" and "those tasteless morons don't belong in a university". Sigh.
This got me thinking about how interesting it is that "hate speech" isn't covered by the First Amendment. It's not "sticks and stones" by a long shot, but people have refused to hear/tolerate certain things since time immemorial, no surprise there. Even so, it's hypocritical as all hell, and it's making me question my professed distate for certain phrasings (like the word `gays', which I've ranted about before).
( And then there's this interesting connection between `hate speech' and what we like to call `wank'.... )
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