Firstly, the number of things I find offensive is off the charts. Your average commercial is so crass and flippant of the human condition as to be obscene, making whole classes of people non-persons and invisible. Go fuck yourself with your Buick SUV. The list goes on but the point is regardless of what filth I may see I don't want to be made director of what is and what should never be. I'll Nature sort that out when we finally get revealed for who and what we really are for all eternity. What a delicious day that will be!
In the meantime, it completely sucks with the daily overload of mass posing we see of people getting on their hind legs in their Twitter outrage looking to divert attention from their own complicity on this planet. If we could see ourselves as we really are the world would be a much quieter place what with so many pots calling the kettle black. But that's what happens when you got everyone running for office instead of being honest. We is a silly people.
Let's start with Kathy and the severed head. Around the universe, humans are known as murderers. That's the kind of reputation you get when you brutally kill those sent to save you. And do I think President Nero is a killer? One hundred percent yes. And as we all know from watching superhero movies, killing killers is OK! So why all the outrage??
Part of it is our deep unadmitted shame at having put a monster like this in charge. Everyone knows what that says about us as a people. We raped and destroyed Iraq without provocation and yet still think of ourselves as "the good guys". That's how delusional we've become. So seeing The Donald's severed head causes a gut reaction of what we fear we may deserve. Funny how we reveal our hidden guilt!
Now imagine if you will, if Trumpy saw the severed head and thought it was funny (because beheading lives is a favorite hobby of dictators and his budget certainly proposes this on a mass scale) and started selling them in the lobby of Trump tower along with his ugly ties and other junk. Would Kathy Griffin have been fired then? Of course not! We'd be congratulating her on her edgy humor and the whole thing would be like a scene from "Being There" in a world of unrepentant sell-outs. This boils down to just another "Here's my chance to appear moral!" moment that no truly moral person ever concerns themselves with.
Bill Boy is someone I've criticized before when I feel he's off the mark but many times he's on the mark and that's how he retains whatever relevance he has. I believe him when he says he believes in love but he's weak and afraid like most of us are and often betrays that. God knows I did. But if you think he's sitting around dreaming of ways of lynching black people (and yes those people do still exist in great quantities) then you're guilty of the same prejudice of which he's being accused.
Do we really need to hear what these morons have to say?
I actually had Real Time on last night but when I saw it was some Republican frat boy with his book lecturing us on how to be responsible (now THAT's fucking offensive!) I muted the entire interview. I would not have cared about Bill's use of the phrase "house nigger" because everyone knows what it means and how he meant it even if they pretend otherwise. I can tell you one thing, though. All these people feigning outrage have never lived their life dependent on a manual labor job. All capitalists condone slavery, mon ami.
Ever notice how in commercials nowadays if they show a bunch a kids they make sure to show "diversity", with a token from every "group" under the sun? You know why they do that? Because they're bigots and don't think of people as people. Ever watch kids play together? They're not thinking "I must be inclusive!" They just play without it ever crossing their minds. Kids and Jesus are the only ones not bigots. (For those who just can't let go: "Ten signs you're cat might be a racist", a serious discussion for the conservative left.)
The mouth is the overflow of the heart. I don't place absolutes on individual words. That's just beyond dumb. For all anyone knows covfefe may stand for nigger and therefore everyone who's said it is now a terrible racist, omigod! But it's the heart that matters. I, in fact, make up my own racial slurs. Whenever I see an hourly Hispanic worker driving very slowly in his work truck and blocking my ass going down the highway I call him a "fucking Pedro." Now Pedro is obviously not a bad word but in that context it is. So you see, those who simply hang on words but not see the heart (intentionally) miss the point.
As I've said before, all bigotry and all the "isms" are an illusion. What it really is is an expression of self-loathing projected onto others. A person with no problems with himself has no bigotry. A person with problems does. And I don't know anyone who has no problems. But it's amazing how much we've degraded since the 70's and "All In The Family", a show which stands no chance of being made now. (Yeah, yeah, the running-for-office people say that's because we're more innocent now. BS!)
Want to be offended? Be my guest! Just don't forget whom we also are often offending, starting with our Maker and the guy we nailed to a cross.
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