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#and why are so many people being so horrible and misrepresenting our history

rainbowsky · 5 months

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GQ and XZ have bad history??? They boycotted him why??

Hi Anon,

This is a fandom - mostly 🍤 - conspiracy theory that doesn't hold a lot of weight. I'm not going to get into the weeds on it except to say that a lot of the claims are false or misrepresented, especially the ones about Rocco Liu.

The post that is said to have come from Rocco is one from 2019 where he allegedly says he's getting sick of seeing GG's face everywhere and basically rolls his eyes and says stars like that are here today, gone tomorrow. (However, the account/post no longer exists, so it's impossible to verify whether it was real, whether it was him or not, etc.)

And the post itself is pretty harmless. Yeah, it's speaking negatively about GG, but it's the sort of thing people say online about celebrities every single day.

There are 2 or 3 other posts that are claimed to be from Rocco, but which fans are actually mistaking. They appear to have come from the previous editor-in-chief, and mostly swirled around 2/27. And the whole 'boycott' claim is just totally unsubstantiated.

(Edit: More on this later in the post)

2/27 didn't bring out the best in a lot of people, and it was horrible for GG but I think it's best to look at it rationally and have a sense of perspective. Every day every one of us casually says terrible things about one celebrity or another. Especially when we are hearing horrible things about a person and their influence on culture.

For example, I absolutely can't stand Lady Gaga. While some of her songs are OK, I mostly find her fake and hugely overrated. Which as a gay man is practically a crime in most people's eyes. 😅

Sometimes we go on to revise our opinions and sometimes we don't. Sometimes we grow to respect a star more over time, other times we grow to gradually dislike them more.

What's at the forefront of our minds one week will be forgotten the next. Most of those who we've had a negative opinion of in the past we probably couldn't name even a few months later. This is just how culture works, especially in the age of the internet.

All of this is totally normal. One of the prices of fame is being under the scrutiny of millions of people. Some will love you, some will be indifferent, and some will hate you.

I doubt very much GG carries a grudge about a social media post from 4 years ago (an eternity in the entertainment business), whether it was from Rocco or not. DD certainly doesn't seem to. They've heard infinitely worse and moved on from it. Fans should too.

I think if we are going to have such ruthless purity tests about everyone who has ever said anything negative about GG and DD then we would have to also accept people holding every single thing GG and DD have said/done in the past against them, no matter how many years ago it happened.

As fans, I'm not sure that's a path we should want to go down. Both GG and DD have come under fire for things they said/did when they were younger, and antis love to dig through old posts and clips of them trying to find evidence they're horrible people.

Like I said before, this is mostly a solo theory that toxic solos like to obsess over. They make it their mission to viciously slander and attack anyone who they feel is a threat to GG, or so much as says anything less than totally fawning about him. They've actually gotten GG into hot water over that kind of behavior multiple times in the past, and I doubt they'll ever stop.

Keep in mind that it's in their interests to spin narratives of DD getting cozy with 'a sworn enemy' of GG. So these breathless tales of GQ and Rocco Liu being GG antis have an ulterior motive. They're a (very thinly) veiled attack on DD and on BXG.

EDIT: and I should add that this anti theory is also used by DD solos to attack GG, claiming that GQ hate GG because of all of the various shortcomings DD solos think GG has, and that the hatred is totally justified, etc. They use the fact that DD has had some high profile GQ moments as proof that DD is a bigger star, that he's more in demand, blah blah blah. It's same shit, different pile. Antis are antis, and will say anything to try to malign and destroy others, regardless of how false and horrible it is.

The best thing we can do is block and ignore (and report when appropriate). Swimming in toxic waste will mutate you into a toxic person over time. Save yourself, stay in your own lane and just enjoy GG and DD.

Edit: Because fans are continuing to push this conspiracy theory, I dug back into the topic and wrote about it more here.

#solos belong to moling su sect #antis go home #ggdd controversies #ggdd entertainment circle #ask

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theunderdogwrites · 3 years

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In Defense of Marilyn Manson

Just kidding.

This is another one of those ‘if you live under a rock, you might not know what is going on’ pieces. But because this story appears to be unfolding daily, I’d think you’ve heard a murmur here or there even if you haven’t really paid too much attention to it because for many, I think this may fall into the “that guy has been a messed-up weirdo for years so I’m not surprised” category.

Please note that in NO WAY I am making fun of this situation, but I learned a long time ago that I require a certain amount of humor to be able to digest much of what this world presents to me.

As always, let me give you the Coles Notes version with the hopes you will go and do your own reading as well.

On February 1 actress Evan Rachel Wood posted this on her Instagram:

"The name of my abuser is Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson. He started grooming me when I was a teenager and horrifically abused me for years. I was brainwashed and manipulated into submission. I am done living in fear of retaliation, slander or blackmail. I am here to expose this dangerous man and call out the many industries that have enabled him, before he ruins any more lives. I stand with the many victims who will no longer be silent."

Quick history lesson – They started dating in 2007 when she was 18 and he was 34 and were engaged for a brief time in 2010.

This was Manson’s response to what she wrote:

"Obviously, my art and my life have long been magnets for controversy, but these recent claims about me are horrible distortions of reality. My intimate relationships have always been entirely consensual with like-minded partners. Regardless of how - and why - others are now choosing to misrepresent the past, that is the truth."

Since the original statement on February 1 a number of women have come forward with stories of their own ranging from physical and emotional abuse to human trafficking. And everyday something new is revealed. Evan Rachel Woods is feverishly posting on her Insta-Story and is slowly burying Manson in an ocean of consequences. She isn’t “fired up” or “a woman scorned”, she is a victim rising above the shame she has felt and the fear of what others will say about her to tell her story and encourage others to do the same. She is the voice that started the ball rolling. The ball that is about to crush Marilyn Manson.

Whenever I write stuff that is currently being heavily featured in the media, I always dive into articles so I can get as much information as possible. But more importantly, I plunge my sensitive little soul into the murky depths known as “the comments section”. I do this because unlike those polished, finished pieces the comments section will give you a better idea of what your fellow human beings think and feel about the topic at hand. And it is never polished or even polite. And often not for the faint at heart. In case you didn’t already know – people can be quite terrible.

The comments section is the modern-day gladiator pit. Only most (not all) of the participants are not ripped, athletic warriors but rather drooling basement dwellers with one hand down their pants (not gender specific by the way) and the other hand maltreating the letters on their keyboard.

Side note: Look, I am not the grammar police as I often just push past all the warnings from the Gestapo editing program in Microsoft Word. BUT I know the value of proper spelling, well placed punctuation and valid attempts to appear smarter than a domesticated turkey by making sure sentences are well-thought out and complete. Raising your argument doesn’t mean USING ALL CAPS AND ABUSING THESE THINGS -> !!!

I just deleted three paragraphs going over the recent “reckoning” that has taken place in the past few years with regards to sexual and physical abuse accusations against (mostly) men in positions of some kind of power. I eliminated all that writing because I started to tumble off topic. I’m not writing about all the dicks now getting their comeuppance, but rather the reactions to it being Marilyn Manson’s turn in the chamber.

Victim shaming is sadly a real thing.

The easiest way I can explain this to you – if a person gets pickpocketed and then blamed because they should’ve known better than to carry their wallet in their back pocket.

Evan Rachel Woods and others have come out to accuse Manson of some pretty appalling acts of abuse and what I’ve found to be the biggest reaction is, “How did they not know he was a bad guy? His music is so graphic and they thought it was all an act? Why did they stay so long?”. As innocent as those questions might seem, and I say that because our brains don’t always serve us or others well, it is a form of discrediting those women. Let’s be honest here… it’s hard to look at Marilyn Manson and his art form and not say, “What the fuck, this guy has bad idea written all over him!”. I feel that is a perfectly reasonable response, but that is where it should end. I think it is fair to pause and attempt to understand the choices of others, but it’s heartless to minimize their experience by placing blame on them for a situation we couldn’t possibly understand if it has never happened to us.

And like I’ve quoted before: People only understand from their level of perception. But that doesn’t stop them from laying on the judgement and damaging already fragile individuals with their inability to show compassion for a fellow human being. Reading through comment sections isn’t just maddening, it’s disappointing and sad but also a real look into how awful many people feel about themselves… to the point where they seem to derive some pleasure or satisfaction from condemning a rape victim for wearing a short skirt and getting drunk.

So… we have to touch on this to be balanced: innocent until proven guilty. Only these days it’s an automatic trial by media with the public acting as judge, jury and executioner. This is where “cancel culture” steps in and within days can destroy an entire career / life. I am not a fan of cancel culture. It does not give people a chance to learn from their mistakes or make amends as it immediately harms their very existence. Often times even before any proof has surfaced. I don’t think I need to tell you how dangerous this is… the fact that just an accusation could ruin your life.

Let me make this clear: if someone comes forward and claims they’ve been sexually assaulted/abused, they need to be taken seriously and not dismissed based upon the circumstances, their gender identity, the color of their skin, their economic position or profession or the person they’re accusing. In turn, the individual being accused should be given time to address the claims before the public begins demolishing their life.

A reoccurring comment in almost all these cases where someone comes forward and alleges abuse YEARS after it happened, is – “Why did they wait so long to come forward?”.

Is this a fair question? Sure. And I feel it is asked because our brain needs to find a way to understand the information we are being given. Because while we’d all like to think that if in the same situation we’d be unfuckable with and anyone who dared to bring damage to our doorstep would immediately suffer the consequences, we actually cannot predict our reaction. There are too many unknown variables to be able to confidently say we’d instantly speak up and seek retribution.

The fear of not being believed. The fear of being blamed. The fear of rejection. The fear of retaliation from the person being accused. The fear of being forever defined by your experience. The fear.

It does not matter the why, what matters is the chance they’ve taken by speaking up at all. Those who come forward should be embraced, not ridiculed. Not abandoned. Not criticized.

“Don’t ask why victims wait so long to speak up. Ask what systems were in place to keep them quiet”. Anonymous

I own a few Marilyn Manson CD’s. And I’ve even attended one of his concerts. Would I say I am a fan? Probably a number of years ago I was but truthfully, I’ve not paid attention to any of his music in recent years because I feel it devolved while my taste evolved. That’s not a slam against him or anyone who fancies his work, it’s more a statement on how I’ve matured and now seek out music that feels authentic to me.

The one concert I attended was opened by Courtney Love. I know, what a duo to pay money to see. Near the end of Manson’s set he made a disparaging remark about Love and trashed her music. At the time he was wearing some pretty hefty platform shoes so it made it all the more hilarious when from out of nowhere she charged like a rhino and tackled him to the stage; throwing punches at his head all the way down. When he finally was able to get up, he announced the show was over. There would be no encore and then him and his bandmates trashed the stage in a temper tantrum worthy of a toddler Napoleon. Still makes me laugh to this day.

Shoutout to Evan Rachel Wood and her most recent movie ‘Kajillionaire’. Watched it on demand about a month ago and it’s a brilliant comedy that will also pull at your heart. I highly recommend you give it a chance.

Check out the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiMPCevu8Wk

#evan rachel wood #victim shaming #marilyn manson #comments section #kajillionaire

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a-little-slice-of-fandom · 4 years

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As an American follower, I would like to say I'm sorry for whatever shit other Americans have been giving you for your Ireland posting. I've been very interested in them. I've always been really fascinated by Celtic culture and have always wanted to learn more about it, but I've never really had the proper resources for it, so this has been a learning experience for me. And besides, you should get to post what you want no matter what, it's your blog, nobody can stop you

Hi sweetheart!!! No one is giving me anything for posting!!! In fact so many of you have been so lovely and encouraged me to talk about Ireland and that’s very sweet because my love for Ireland literally is about 85 to 90 percent of my personality. My concerns aren’t directed at anyone who I’ve interacted with, but there’s a certain type of person who just sort of try and use Ireland as their get out of jail free card or as an excuse to do cultural appropriation or perpetuate stereotypes against other cultures. I once read this article and it made my blood literally BOIL with anger.

For those who don’t want to read the article (and I don’t blame you because it’s a mess in every definition of the word) but basically this author is saying he can’t understand why students from latino backgrounds would take issue with him and his friends blatantly making fun of their culture when Irish people really don’t seem that annoyed about Saint Patrick’s day parades. The author literally says, word for word “I haven’t looked closely enough into my own genetic heritage to know how Irish I am”. What??? WHAT??? WHAT??? That implies his parents or grandparsntes aren’t Irish because then you wouldn’t need to look into it. You’d just sort of know that! Literally the only evidence to give that he might be slightly Irish is that his mums name was “McNeal”...but he calls Irish things “my culture”.

Now...I didn’t think people this stupid actually existed. But apparently they do! Because he isn’t Irish. He’s clearly american. Did he have an Irish great grandparent at some point? Maybe! Or it could easily be a Scottish great grandparent because McNeal isn’t even a name that’s exclusive to Ireland!

And if you aren’t Irish...you do not get to speak for Irish people. And you definitely don’t get to use Saint Patrick’s Day and the Irish struggle as an excuse to be super racist! Is Saint Patrick’s day filled with loads of stereotypes and basically just a way for people to have a big party in March? Yeah. Sometimes parades will try and have some authenticity (the New York parade actually invited students from my school to represent County Down and play in the parade this year! Which was such a nice touch!) but people will completely butcher Irish dance and speak in bad accents they’ll call it Saint Patty’s day which makes me want to go and scream but it isn’t cultural appropriation. Irish cultural appropriation is a thing (kind of? Sort of? It’s super complicated) but parades definitely aren’t an issue and Irish people are only slightly annoyed, if that. It is nowhere near as bad as what happens daily in America and in other parts of the world to people from other minority communities.

Did Irish people struggle throughout history? Yes. Need I bring up the signs that compared Irish people to dogs? Or the literal attempted genocide during the Irish famine? Or the fact that loads of our actual culture is lost and our language is barely spoke and was literally dying? There’s also the penal laws, Bloody Sunday, the Easter Rising, the famine ships (also known as the coffin ships) the plantation of Ulster. I can go on for a while here. Do some of us still struggle? Also yes. The north of Ireland went through a massive civil war a few years back, and sectarian tensions are still very much felt. Bomb scares are just part of life. Paramilitaries are still knocking about. Also, irish people often feel misrepresented in media and our stories are either never told or when they are told in a way that’s more palatable to English and American audiences. But our struggles should not be used to take away from the struggles of other cultures. Our experiences should not be used as something to demean and diminish the experiences of others,,,especially when we can sympathise. My family members sometimes talk about the time they wanted to go on a plane in the 1980s and 1990s and were put in different waiting rooms because everyone thought they’d be part of the IRA and they were treated with so much suspicion the entire time, both by other passengers and staff. When bombings happened in London, Irish people were often blamed regardless of their association (or lack there of) to said bombings. Also, look up the special powers act from Ireland. It’s really fun and absolutely wasn’t an abuse of government power that encouraged police brutality.

But these struggles shouldn’t be used to try and take away from other people’s struggles. I would never want that. Our voices don’t have to drown each other out. We can support one another! And we often do! There’s this absolutely incredible story of the time the Choctaw Nation came to the aid of the Irish people during the Irish famine (just after they had been through the trail of tears), and the Irish people have recently tried to aid others, such as the Navajo nation, during this pandemic (because the American government isn’t doing much). If you want to learn more about this, you can read it here.

But for some bloody reason white-suprematists LOVE to try and use the Irish experience to demean other communities experiences. They love talking about how Irish people were slaves (which we weren’t. We were indentured servants but we were never slaves. That’s just blatant misinformation) to try and take away from other communities and their (very justified) feelings and the struggles that they still face today. And, as an Irish person, it both angers me and saddens me. It angers me that people are trying to use my history as some sort of defense and it saddens me that people will start to think those Americans are actually reflective of Irish people because they aren’t and they don’t speak for us. I don’t know why they think they can speak for us, but they don’t.

(Also for some reason people have started associating Celtic things with neo-nazis??? And I have no idea why and it’s disgusting and I bloody hate it. The Celtic cross slowly becoming one of their symbols is TERRIFYING to me because Celtic crosses are like...super important to Ireland since the fifth century. It’s horrible and disgusting and it’s genuinely upsetting to see that certain right-wing groups keep trying to use or infiltrate these circles and I literally hate it with every fibre of my being.)

That was a ramble but that’s why I’m slightly worried when I talk about Ireland and Irish/Celtic culture on this blog because I am terrified people are going to take it the wrong way or get the wrong idea because some idiots are trying to use Irish history as some half-assed defense to be racist.

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wadebae · 4 years

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I hate “discourse” but I have something to say. There are still ppl in the year 2020 who think asexuals are “trying to invade” lgbt spaces or some shit and hate us in extremely radicalized and concerning ways, and it’s disgusting. You might not be asexual and you might not care, but there’s a reason why there’s a huge overlap with people who hate aces and people who hate trans women. There’s a reason why people who buy into this can often also spew such radicalized hate speech that they sounds indistinguishable from TERFs, despite perhaps literally being the polar opposite of a TERF.

There’s a reason why there’s been a push to have young lgbt people swallow the propaganda of “queer is a slur” and “don’t trust anyone who calls themselves queer” despite the fact that the same people will often reclaim dyke, fag, or gay as their own proud identities. And there’s nothing wrong with that. My issue lies with the hypocrisy of policing the labels of others.

So why are those slurs ok to reclaim and not queer? Because queer is “too inclusive” and “will allow undesirables into the community.” But Queer was the rallying cry of your own history. It was a reclamation of yes, a slur, used to spit back into the face of heteronormativity and those who violently wanted us dead. It’s been used in popular media - Queer as Folk, Queer Eye - for decades. It’s used in college courses. Queer History. Queer Studies.

Queer is perhaps the one most all-encompassing word, if you don’t want to use an “alphabet soup” of letters for fear of diminishing any one community’s validity to stand alongside one another. But those who hate the word, think that the community should be boiled down to just LGBT as if that’s all we are and all we ever were, when history points to the contrary.

It honestly breaks my heart -- not that one might be offended by the word, because we all have our own experiences of what slurs were used against us personally and which ones we’ll never reclaim. But rather it breaks my heart because there are many, many LGBTQ+ folks who feel that queer is the only one word that can actually describe them without misrepresenting part of their identity. People are complex. We cannot all fit into one or two boxes, nice and neat, no matter how often I’ve wished I could myself because it would be less confusing.

Queer as an identity meant to be all-encompassing, like a verbal blanket that says, yes you do belong even if you don’t have the words yet to describe yourself or never will.

When you tell a stranger, *I* do not identify as queer, therefore *you* are not allowed to use it, you’re not only spitting in their face but also in the faces of people who came before us and paved the way so Pride can be a celebration today instead of a funeral march or a riot. There are people who want Pride to be a riot again but don’t even remember what that means or who started it.

When you push down others who don’t fit nice and neat into just L, G, B, or T, (people who often do identify with one or more of these communities, but who also can only find comfort in additional labels, or god forbid, one nebulous label like ‘queer’ because it’s the only place they truly feel at ease) you’re standing alongside a history of oppressors who said that we are all wrong. Because to people who violently hate us, it doesn’t matter if you’re a lesbian, a gay man, bisexual, trans, pansexual, poly, genderfluid, nonbinary, asexual, aromantic, demi, agender, genderqueer, or whatever words we might have to describe ourselves, if you don’t fit the mold, to them you’re just queer and something to stamp out. They do not care what you are exactly.

I know why people get annoyed. It’s strange to have new labels crop up, especially when they don’t describe you and you’ll never fully understand what it feels like. But just because the words are new (to you) doesn’t mean that what it describes is new. Yes, there are many, many labels and micro-identities. There’s an explosion of young people who feel safe enough to test the waters and see what sticks. If it’s silly, it will fall out of use. If it makes sense, it will endure.

I know why people get scared. The world is full of horrible people, nazis, racists, rapists, pedophiles, trolls who twist our own words against us to try to invalidate our lived experiences. But by lashing out against other LGBTQ+ people, you don’t fight off “the invaders”, you just rip the community into pieces. There are young, questioning, scared kids growing up right now and seeing this shit and being actually damaged by the gatekeeping and toxic behavior aimed within the community. Young people need to know it’s okay to try different labels and it’s okay to not know yet, or to never know.

The community isn’t a castle you can protect. You either are LGBTQ+ or you are not. You cannot know someone else’s mind and feelings and whether they are what they say they are. You can only see their words and actions. Instead of worrying about policing other people’s labels and who is barred from imaginary castles, worry about how people behave towards others. Because I do not care who you are, if you are harassing people, spreading harmful misinformation, making hate speech, or sending threats, you fucking suck and you become part of the problem. No number of labels will protect you from being a shitty human being. You might be “part of the community” but you will never be welcome in my book. That’s how that works.

#queer #is not a slur #lgbtq #history #spicy hot take #exclusionists #if this were 2015 I'd get some angry anons demanding i detail my sexual/romantic history to justify why i belong here #-slurps cold tea-#anyway i just want ppl to get along #and instead of attacking other identities you clearly dont understand #maybe try to be fucking chill #and instead worry about like actual predators and harmful ppl #ok?#oh wait that's right that's why y'all pretend that all aces and trans women are predators #lmfaoooo i'm salty

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north-of-annwn · 4 years

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most of what you're saying about the closed religions thing is true yeah, but there was a lot more people living in North America when Europeans first came than 900 thousand... There were 200 thousand people living in just Tenochtitlan alone, and Mexico is very much in North America. Also, the Christians did commit a whole fuckton of genocide against pagan Europeans. Do you know why there are no more Old Prussians? Have you never heard of the Northern Crusades? 1/2

Clearly there’s been a misunderstanding about my posts on Heathen religions being Open. You also seem like a person who is interested in understanding so I’ll try to clarify any confusion my post might have caused.

Regarding representing facts inaccurately

First I want to say that I am always open to correction if something I’ve said is inaccurate, harmful, or somehow invalidates people experiencing marginalization. I don’t seek to misrepresent facts or history to fit my agenda. As you said, that doesn’t help anyone. Regarding the inaccuracies you mentioned:

I’ve checked my posts several times and I don’t believe anything that I said contradicts or erases the colonization of Old Prussians or even the fact that European cultures did colonize each other for centuries.

The estimated number of Indigenous at the time settlers arrived in what is now the US I sourced from an educational site focusing on the preservation of American indigenous history, so if you have a different source I’d much appreciate that link. (You can drop it in replies of you have it.)

Regarding historical colonization of Europeans by Europeans

Colonization is horrible and destructive no matter who is experiencing it. I don’t want to minimize that at all and I don’t want to erase it. It’s just isn’t relevant to a conversation on current human rights violations. “Closed Cultures” focuses on preserving cultures still under colonization from further decline. To do that we really need to keep the conversation focused on the people that this is affecting. Old Prussians were colonized in the 13th century and have since assimilated into the Germanic culture that conquered them almost 1000 years ago. The loss of cultures is tragic and awful but it isn’t a case for closing a Slavic culture/religion since they have no current colonizers.Unless you know of Old Prussians still fighting for their sovereignty under colonization, this isn’t a current issue and bringing it up now minimizes the experience of people being colonized now. Let’s keep the conversation focused on BIPOC instead of trying to center white people on this conversation.

Regarding the Oppression of the Christian Church

The Christian church is definitely still oppressing any and all religions that aren’t Christianity, but this isn’t targeted specifically at Pagans or Slavs. It also isn’t comparable to systemic racial oppression. This is something we, as Pagans, actually share with BIPOC worldwide and is a reason for us to stand with them against oppression, rather than trying to close our religion when they’ve never been oppressors to white Europeans.

It’s easy to fall into the logical fallacy of false comparison. And it’s natural that many of us still need acknowledgment and closure around cultural trauma that we, as white folx, experienced long ago. But we need to choose the right time and place to address that trauma and ensure that we’re holding space for BIPOC rather than dominating conversations that should remain focused on them.

Thanks for your Ask. I hope I’ve offered some clarity on my posts and my position on these complex issues.

💙 Fynn

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 5 years

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listen, there's a ton of Christians who would love for Christianity to be the only thing people ever meant by "religion." running an anti-religion blog that's actually just anti-one-very-shallow-interpretation-of-Christianity does more to equate "the worst possible form of Christianity" with "religion" than a random Christian could. do you actually want Christianity to be less hegemonic, or do you just want to be shallow and edgy on the internet?

Let’s start off by taking a moment to acknowledge that this is first and foremost an ad-hominem.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem

If thinking humanity should only validate and endorse ideas that are well substantiated and demonstrably true, discarding ideas that are harmful and don’t even reflect reality is “shallow,” then I guess I’m “shallow.” If identifying fallacious reasoning, pointing out mistakes in logic, and explaining how we form justified conclusions is “shallow,” then I guess I’m “shallow.” If being a “cheer-squad of one” for the virtues of humanity outside the lens of imaginary sky monsters, prioritizing human qualities over the recognition of creatures that can’t be demonstrated to even exist is “shallow,” then I guess I’m “shallow.”

I can completely live with that.

But it doesn’t address any of my points. I don’t really care whether you regard me as being “shallow and edgy.” I don’t even know you, so why would I? It’s just a way for you to ignore what I’m saying - or worse, misrepresent it - and still feel like you hold the upper hand.

By the way, weren’t most of history’s prophets “edgy”? Didn’t they come to disrupt the status quo and usher in a new age of enlightenment and understanding, despite anyone’s discomfort? Haven’t most of history’s dramatic changes come at the behest of someone who is “edgy”?

I don’t care about Xtianity being less “hegemonic” - I care about whether it’s even true. The same way I don’t care about any god’s opinion of me until someone can demonstrate it even exists. Why we should entertain these superstitions at all - never mind the degree - any more than you entertain Hellenism or Mayan myths?

Are you concerned about the “worst possible” Flat Earthers, and reducing Flat Earther hegemony? Does it matter to you whether the flerfer thinks Earth is a flat disk or a cylinder? Do you fixate on whether they think our system is geocentric or heliocentric? Or do you deal with it on the basis of whether the common, shared foundational principle of “the Earth is flat,” the thing that inextricably connects them, can even be demonstrated to be true? And why should we entertain any of these versions of the same idea if they can’t?

I don’t believe I’ve focussed on any particular version of Xtianity at all. The bible does say that slavery is acceptable. It does say that certain people should be stoned (in the bad way, not the good way). It does give nonsense explanations for the world around us; explanations we know to be wrong. it does contradict itself. It does say that “god” killed many, many people. It does say lots and lots of horrible things that Xtians are statistically more than likely unaware of. This is unavoidable. And it’s something biblical scholars for centuries have struggled with. The problem isn’t me pointing it out, it’s that the source of these beliefs is gross, unreliable, inconsistent and man-made.

I’ve taken great pains to be very clear about my position outside of not just Xtianity…

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/post/180200447127

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/post/177232121982

but outside of religion in general.

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/tagged/skepticism

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/tagged/spiritual-not-religious

Here are my asks and my text posts (which includes both reblogs and original text posts). Why not actually read my views and my rants position instead of attacking a strawman version?

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/ask

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/text

You’ll note one remarkable thing about all of them: there is very little Xtian-specific content in them; “worst possible” or otherwise. Which you’ll note also applies to this very post you’re reading right now, responding to your Ask.

I’ve said it time and time again…

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/post/181268222472

to the point of boring myself [..]

Why you believe something is more important than what you believe.

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/post/184004931692:

Why is always more important than what, because why allows us to identify errors, correct them, and form better ideas and beliefs.

I’ve said it again and again 100 different ways.

https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/post/181895656852

EDIT: Another: https://religion-is-a-mental-illness.tumblr.com/post/180204654982

My message is quite simple: that irrational, unsubstantiated belief in magic and creatures that can’t be demonstrated to exist is unreasonable. No matter which version of which theological family. That indoctrinating vulnerable children into believing and fearing these baseless ideas - until you can actually demonstrate them to be true, and such fear is warranted - is unjustified.

If you have a problem with this, then perhaps it’s time to consider why you don’t like it. Why you find it unreasonable that things should be able to be demonstrated to be true before asserting that they are. Especially since you’ve already dismissed all versions of other belief systems other than your own (Judaism) as unbelievable anyway. You know, being n-1 as “edgy” (LOL) as me.

Fixating on people who simply don’t believe is missing the mark. It’s ignoring the inability to demonstrate that thousands of these ideas (and thousands of versions of them) reflect reality in any way. And personally, I’d rather live in reality.

#ask #anti religion #antireligion #religion #religion is a mental illness #atheism #atheist #pro humanity #anti god #cheersquad

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migleefulmoments · 5 years

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"Because accusing a gay man of hitting on all the straight men is homophobic. Because Abby insinuated that the video is problematic" Did the anons say Ryan has hit on all the straight men? This is getting weird. I am sorry to see you keep misrepresenting what the original anon said - who mentioned only a "crush". I don't remember anyone here accusing Ryan of hitting on Darren. The anons weren't talking about Abby either, you brought her up regardless. But she uses everything to tinhat.

I’m done talking about this- if you want to say more then come off anon and have a conversation. But they DID imply that Ryan was being predatory and inappropriate- I don’t remember what the first anon said but I have been responding to the tinhatters comments.

Abby: Yes Anon, That was my take as well.

This got long so it’s under a cut

followed immediately by:

justcantgetenoughcc

I have seen the recording of Ry/M touching Da/rren’s cheek before, and still find it creepy. It looks as if D turns his head to kiss R’s hand. What do you think?

Abby: I noticed that too. That Darren turned his head and blew him a kiss / or kissed his hand… to appease him, as he was interrupting the conversation with their guest of honor - Mayor Bloomberg. Possessive much? I found Harry Shum’s expression even more interesting as he notices what RM is doing.

There’s another picture that goes with this set… Where Heather is unceremoniously yanked out of the way, so that RM could stand next to Darren.

Look at Jane’s reaction to HOW RM is describing Chris here…

Chrisdare actually comes in with a reality check and pushes back against their nonsense. Notice that she points out that they need to watch the entire video to see the truth.

chrisdarebashfulsmiles No it’s not the right take and it’s easy too see if you see the entire clip: tightening the lips is not the same as kissing hands.

Now, i know i’m gonna sound rude but i’m mad and pissed off AF in D’s behalf (and as a person who try always to check before speaking) and it’s not something that happens a lot. I usually stay silent too but today this is too much for me. I don’t understand this need of spreading “lies” about him of on this kind of things. To prove that is ok to be mad at him for the bearding and thinking he’s always been disrespectful to C?? That maybe he did casting couch?

We have enough haters… he has more haters than we have… why there’s the need to invent stuff about him it’s beyond me. And now you all block me or whatever, i don’t care. I swear after 6 years here and all that this means… I DON’T CARE.

But for the love of God he has enough on his plate without this kind of stuff. Said that, i agree on RM being the creepiest and i hate him for how he treated C.

Abby comes back with a toned attitude and agrees with Chrisdare. She wasn’t reflagging this earlier in the week? No idea what that means but she can’t help but stir the shit.

ajw720

I was actively not reblogging this gifs earlier in the week because it’s a reminder I don’t think d needs.

But he’s literally pushing his hand away with his face. As @chrisdarebashfulsmiles said, d as enough on his plate. Can we not add to it with falsehoods?

No one is arguing about RM. but for some reason d has decided to dance with the devil he knows. It must be his best option. And c is still there and supporting him so he’s clearly ok with the choice. Let’s not add to the substantial weight on their shoulders.

Rouged has the most outrageous comments-as usual- and Abby reblogged them without pushing back and in fact said “some good points”. Since she didn’t call out those she felt were untrue-I must assume she was fully supportive of the suggestions of impropriety on behalf of Ryan. This isn’t the only time Abby has sullied Ryan’s name. Rouged is only upset that Darren’s name is dragged through the mud.

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This has been around forever, and will never go away, will it? I had asked that this not be reposted, for what I thought were obvious reasons, but people just can’t help dragging him through the mud. So, let’s talk about this little piece of hell. This was when they were filming the competition in New York. D’s bit was supposed to be over, and he was only in that episode at the very end, which could have been filmed anywhere. BUT, he had broken so big that he, and the Warblers, were given an album release and were also in NYC and on Today show premiering it. D was privately discussing with the producers where his character Blaine would go next. Would he have his own show with the Warblers, a spinoff, or would he stay with Glee? It was a huge decision, and very high-pressure. C had already returned to Glee and New Directions, this was the big show. But, starring in his own show, and giving all the other Warblers a bigger career, that was also tempting. I am sure he felt the pressure of that decision, and how his choice impacted others, he had formed a bond with the Warbler actors. But being on the big show, a sure thing, and with C as his co-star, seeing him and working with him every day, well…

This was a “Welcome to NYC” photo op and news article by Mayor Bloomberg with some of the cast, and this was the moment D was shaking hands with Mayor Bloomberg, and speaking to him. I happen to think D has some political aspirations as well, so he may have mentioned something when he met Bloomberg. RM was probably high, he acts so erratically here, but he reaches out, with a camera and tons of photographers there, and pats him on the cheek, cups his cheek, actually, and pats it way too fondly, extremely inappropriate but what RM does a lot, and not just with D. (more about that later.). I don’t know why Br/ad Fal/chuk does not control him better, but they are both horrible people, as is Dan/te Di/Lor/eto, standing right behind RM, who no longer works with RM, Br/ad, and I/an. (Thank all the gods. That’s one creep out of the way, two to go.) D, in mid-speech with the mayor, and still shaking his hand, is shocked, and reaches up to angrily swat RM’s hand away. Remember that D did not know all the other guys that much, he had mostly hung out with C and the Warblers, who would probably have been more protective of him, (I am sure C would have tried), and more interactive, but this is the rest of the world, including Bloomberg, the NYC press, AND New Directions seeing this predatory behavior roll out up close and personal, for the first time, out in the open, and blatant. I mean, he just did not care what people thought at that point, he thought he was king of the world.

I don’t know why C and the rest of the girls besides Hea/ther were not here, but I know L and C had that big filming singing on the Wicked stage, and the scenes at Tiffany’s. D supposedly was present in the audience at that filming. Since he is not dressed in Warbler costume, for Today show, this may have been that day, I assume C and L filming in those outfits took most of one day. The entire Glee production team, including Warblers and THEIR album rollout, were all there for a week of filming, and, at the height of their fame, had all practically shut NYC down with their various filming locations. Fans were everywhere, and the city made a big deal of it.

Heather tries to stand in front of D, in the group photo, and is roughly jerked out of the way, (also caught on film, the guy must have been unable to stop rolling, it was just too bizarre), so that RM can cosy in to that tight space next to D and hold on. In virtually every photo made with the two of them in a group, D ALWAYS is made to be very near RM, UNLESS RM is sober, has just been called out for being a creep, or is otherwise trying to behave and scrub his image, in which case D is not attached to him at the hip, but these are rare indeed. Again, this was NYC, the height of Glee’s popularity, RM was drunk with power and fame, and probably also literally drunk, thinking he ruled the world and everyone in his domain, and D was making the second-most important decision of his life, behind the scenes. I don’t think many people ever consider the extreme pressure he was under, this was a career making moment, and RM and the other producers were all giving him the hard press. At 23 years old.

The first important decision, knowing how RM was, was going all in to be on Glee. And don’t tell me he didn’t know. Every person in Hollywood knows the predators, and the pluses and perils of working with them. If they are mature adults, and are not trapped or coerced or blackmailed or assaulted, (and they usually are, the power exchange is very imbalanced), what they do is their business, and I don’t judge. If they gain something, that is an exchange, that is their power, their erotic capital, and they are allowed to own that and exchange it as a strength, if they choose. The actors have assets, that propel their careers, and they are allowed to use them, as they see fit, if they give that consent in that moment, and get something they value in return. That is an exchange of power, and happens so frequently in Hollywood (and Washington, and corporate America, and The entertainment and fashion industries as a whole), that most in those industries don’t think twice about it.

So, Hollywood is one of those towns where lots of sex happens, because there are lots of beautiful people interacting with very rich and powerful people, and they all interact with each other. Get real, and get over that part. D is not a saint, nor does he have to be for me to be his fan, I am not blind or stupid or naive, I get it. They are not like us, okay? This is not our day to day lives.

The bad part is when people are faced with almost constant sexual and physical and emotional harassment because of it. And D is. From many power sources. The same as many beautiful women are, with all the talk about fleshlights and being rapey, which is the latest. It is all lewd and suggestive, we have all sexualized D and C, and need to accept that complicated history we all have with them. But especially it is true for D with RM, and Br/ad Fal/chuk, (and Da/nte Di/loreto, but I hope that one is over.) Theirs is oppressive, and manipulative, and controlling and threatening. And that is abuse.

And if anyone has the film from C’s first Single Ladies dance rehearsal, in costume, for the Glee tour, you would see more blatant RM abuse.

In fact,I would venture to say almost every member of that key cast was abused beyond their consent by the showrunner, other producers, writers, and directors. (Not all of them, but some of them, for sure.) It was only because that show made billions, with a B, for F/ox, and even War/ren Buf/fet visited that set (weird, he sat by Ch/ord), that Fox execs looked the other way. The fact that Da/na Wal/den, RM’s main enabler, is now at The Mouse House, just tells you how pervasive this culture truly is. It’s hard to fight everyone, when all your heroes have feet of clay. RM IS the devil he knows. And he has a contract. And he DID negotiate Executive Producer status. But I think it is ironic, and more than a little sad and sick, that RM also gave it to the two new prettyboys on set, who have earned NOTHING like the shit D went through, after we all mentioned that it gave D power and control that he had more than earned. Can’t let D get too big for his britches, and think he is getting somewhere without us now, can we, RM and BF? He OWES you. Apparently, forever.

And can we stop reblogging that series of images now? I think RM gets a sick satisfaction out of them even now, as all the shot starts yet again, tangling them together in intimate ways RM does not deserve, and I despise giving him anything. What was done, is done. What happened, happened. What is happening, has its reasons. It does not change that D is a huge talent, and deserving of his fans, nor that RM and BF are likely to bring him success. They are still creeps, and horribly so, ones that deserve to be brought down, in my opinion. i And apparently would rather deal with, at this point, since everyone is watching, due to all the issues in the past, than ones he doesn’t, which no one expects. The current movie is a perfect example. This career is exactly like walking through a field of land mines for a living. You never know when you are going to step on the next one.

ajw720. Will no reblog again, but some really good points.

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expatimes · 3 years

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Donald Trump still believes US election was 'rigged'

US President Donald Trump publicly declared himself the winner of the presidential election Wednesday and called for it to be “turned around” while unleashing a litany of debunked theories and falsehoods as evidence of his victory.

“This was an election that we won easily. We won it by a lot, ”he told a meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate Majority Policy Committee by phone.

“This election was rigged and we can't let that happen; we can't let it happen for our country and this election has to be turned around because we won Pennsylvania by a lot, and we won all of these swing states by a lot, ”Trump said.

The president has been tweeting many of these claims since Election Day and especially since Joe Biden was declared president-elect on November 7. But this was the first time he has spoken publicly about the results since his last post-election news conference on November 5 .

RIGGED ELECTION!

- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 25, 2020

Trump's lawyers, Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, were at Wednesday's meeting in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, which across also featured various witnesses from the state who claimed voter fraud and irregularities.

The president, who said he was calling from the Oval Office and was watching the proceedings on television, spoke for just over 11 minutes and outlined his reasons why he was convinced that the Democrats "cheated" and won a "fraudulent election". Every one of his justifications has been debunked and almost all of the lawsuits his legal team has filed have been tossed out of court.

Trump attorneys Rudy Giuliani, left, and Jenna Ellis, right, argue on behalf of Trump's claim of a 'rigged' election at Wednesday's hearing of the Pennsylvania State Senate Majority Policy Committee in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania [Julio Cortez/AP Photo]

The states Trump referenced Wednesday - Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin - have already certified their election results, except for Wisconsin, where two counties are undergoing a recount and no widespread irregularities have surfaced so far.

A Pennsylvania judge issued an order halting any further Pennsylvania vote certification until a hearing on Friday in a case brought by Pennsylvania Republicans, separate to that of Trump's campaign claims.

Among Trump's unfounded claims on Wednesday:

Trump's claim: “Anybody watching television the night of the election was saying, I was called by the biggest political people, 'congratulations sir on a big win,' and all of a sudden ballots were dumped all over the place and a lot of horrible things happened. ”

Fact: Ballots were not being “dumped all over the place”; they were simply being counted, in some cases later than they normally would due to rules in some states that mail-in ballots could not be processed until Election Day or, in others, until after polls closed. The late-count phenomenon was well known and predicted long in advance of the election and there is no evidence of anything illegal behind it.

Trump's claim: “Between the voter suppression and all of the horrible things that happened to poll watchers… the poll watchers weren't allowed to watch. … If you were a Republican poll watcher, you were treated like a dog and the Democrats had no problem. ”

Fact: As The Associated Press has reported, “Trump is wholly misrepresenting a court case in [Pennsylvania] and what happened at voting places. No one tried to ban poll watchers representing each side in the election. Democrats did not try to stop Republican representatives from being able to observe the process. In addition, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court last week upheld a lower court's ruling that Philadelphia “officials had given Republican observers sufficient access to the vote counting, without allowing them within 6 feet,” the Associated Press reported.

Trump's claim: "We got 74 million votes, and if you would've said 74 million votes the day before the election, every single professional in the business would have said there's no way of beating that."

Fact: Due to the surge in early voting, there were many predictions that the overall turnout would be record-breaking. The New York Times reported on October 31, “Over all, the early turnout has set the country on course to surpass 150 million votes for the first time in history.” On October 17, The Associated Press wrote, “Americans' rush to vote is leading election experts to predict that a record 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than in any presidential election since 1908.” It should not have been a surprise to anybody that a presidential candidate could have received more than 74 million votes.

Trump's claim: “People were getting two and three and four ballots in their home. People that were dead were signing up for ballots. ”

Fact: “In battleground states that Trump needed to win to secure a second term, there has been an influx of claims about illegally cast ballots - including some that say dead people voted in the election. Those claims haven't panned out, ”reports Politifact.

Trump's claim: "You look at Michigan with Detroit, you look at what happened in Detroit, where you have a voter, but you have more votes than you have voters."

Fact: “According to unofficial election results on the City of Detroit's website, on Nov. 5, there were 250,138 votes cast and 504,714 registered voters. Detroit has an estimated population of 670,000, ”reports The Associated Press. Poll books in some Detroit precincts revealed that "the number of names recorded in poll books did not match the number of ballots counted." But that numbered in the hundreds, and that is attributed to human error, something that happens in every election.

After laying all of this out, Trump has maintained, “it's a very sad thing for our country to have this. And they have to turn over the result. ”

The fact is there has been no overwhelming evidence to convince state elections officials or judges to completely halt vote certification, throw out ballots or most certainly “turn over” the will of American voters.

. #world Read full article: https://expatimes.com/?p=14769&feed_id=19975

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peterposition-blog · 4 years

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Political Circus

What a disappointing time we are living in.

Following the acquittal, both President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi held their own press conferences. Both of them were absolutely ridiculous. Both of them full of fighting words. It’s just sad.

“It’s Bullshit!”

It’s funny how now that he was able to manipulate his Republican senators into voting that he was not guilty for the clear abuse of power he committed, Trump went on a barrage of words against the Democrats, the entire impeachment process, and specifically Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney.

His conference, which he deemed a ‘celebration,’ felt like a WWE promo. It’s so frustrating and depressing to see our President acting like this.

He held up a copy of The Washington Post with the words ‘acquitted’ as he said to First Lady Melania Trump, ‘Honey, maybe we'll frame it. The only good headline I've ever had on The Washington Post.’

To summarize the incredible speech that I would hope never to hear again from someone that is President of the United States, here are some of the most absurd quotes.

‘And we were treated unbelievably unfairly, and you have to understand we first went through Russia, Russia, Russia. It was all bullshit.‘

‘They made up facts. A corrupt politician named Adam Schiff made up my statement to the Ukrainian president. He brought it out of thin air. Just made it up. They say, he’s a screenwriter, a failed screenwriter.’

‘We did a prayer breakfast this morning, *and I thought that was really good. In fact, that was so good it might wipe this out. But by the time we finish this, we’ll wipe that one out, those statements.* I had Nancy Pelosi sitting four seats away, and I’m saying things that a lot of people wouldn’t have said, but I meant every word, okay?’

*Note: All he cares about is headlines, headlines, headlines. He’s still the same reality television star he’s always been. Yuck. Back to his quotes.

‘Then you have some who used religion as a crutch. They never used it before. An article written today. Never heard him use it before. But today, you know, it’s one of those things. It’s a failed presidential candidate, so things can happen when you fail so badly running for president. Say hello to the people of Utah and tell them I’m sorry about Mitt Romney.‘

‘Adam Schiff is a vicious, horrible person. Nancy Pelosi is a horrible person. And she wanted to impeach a long time ago when she said, I pray for the president. She doesn’t pray. She may pray but she prays for the opposite. But I doubt she prays at all. These are vicious people.‘

‘People are very angry that Nancy Pelosi and all these guys — I mean, [Jerry] Nadler, I’ve known him much of my life. He’s fought me in New York for 25 years. I always beat him, and I had to beat him another time, and I’ll probably have to beat him again, because if they find that I happened to walk across the street and maybe go against the light or something, let’s impeach him. So I’ll probably have to do it again because these people have gone stone cold crazy. I’ve beat them all my life and I’ll beat them again if I have to.‘

‘Iowa. And he was talking about the fiasco. The Democrats can’t count some simple votes yet they want to take over your health care system. Think of that.‘

‘You could say it but this is sort of a day of celebration because we went through hell. And I’m sure that Pelosi and crying Chuck [Schumer] — the only time I ever saw him cry was when it was appropriate. I’ve known him for a long time, crying Chuck.‘

‘I want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony, rotten deal by some very evil and sick people, and Ivanka is here and my sons and my whole family.‘

I can’t recall the last time we had a President that spoke like this. Unhinged. His ego really jumped out here. It’s so sad. This man is the one running the country. And he is here basically having a big old laugh at his political opponents like the typical bully he is - knowing damn well that he got away with abuse of power. He got away with it.

Pelosi Pokes Back

While I don’t think fighting words back-and-forth are what either the President or the Speaker of the House should be doing, I still think that Pelosi’s was a little more warranted. She was basically bad-mouthed by Trump all day, so it was human nature to speak out.

She had also been stomped on by some of the media and people on social media for ripping the State of the Union speech papers. (Something that I also found a little distasteful to be honest.)

In her speech, she said the following.

‘As required by the Constitution of the United States, the President is to submit in writing or in person, his statement of the State of the Union. What happened instead was a President using the Congress of the United States as a backdrop for a reality show, presenting a state of mind that had no contact with reality whatsoever.’

‘It was quite appalling to hear the President say the [130], at least, million families in America that are faced with pre-existing medical conditions – a benefit that is afforded to them in the Affordable Care Act – that he was protecting that benefit, when, in fact, he has done everything to dismantle it.‘

‘So, it was, in my view, a manifesto of mistruths, of falsehoods, blatantly, really dangerous to the well-being of the American people if they believed what he said. So, again we do not want the chamber of the House of Representatives to be used as a backdrop for one of his reality shows with unreality in his presentation. And, by the way, a serious breach to start shouting ‘Four more years,’ on the Floor of the House, totally inappropriate.’

(NOTE: Yet she ripped the papers, c’mon Pelosi)

‘I don't know if the President understands about prayer or people who do pray, but we do pray for the United States of America. I pray for him, President Bush still, President Obama. It is a heavy responsibility. I pray hard for him, because he is so off the track of our Constitution, our values, our country, the air our children breathe, the water they drink and the rest. He really needs our prayers. He can say whatever he wants, but I do pray for him, and I do so sincerely and without anguish.

‘I thought what he said about Senator Romney was particularly without class, when he said ‘Some people use faith as an excuse to do the wrong things.’ It’s so inappropriate at a prayer breakfast. You want to go to a prayer breakfast, pray on the school vouchers, woman's right to choose, all the things that that is the right audience for, God bless you. It is a prayer breakfast. That’s something about faith. May not be something I agree with, but it’s appropriate. But to go into the stock market and raising up his approval thing and he's mischaracterizing other peoples’ motivation – he’s talking about things he knows little about: faith and prayer.’

‘I tore up a manifesto of mistruths. It was necessary to get the attention of the American people to say, ‘This is not true, and this is how it affects you.’ And I don't need any lessons from anybody, especially the President of the United States, about dignity – dignity. Is it okay to start saying ‘four more years’ in the House of Representatives? It’s just unheard of. It is unheard of for the President to insult people there who don't share his views, as well as to misrepresent – present falsehoods. Some would use the word lie – I don’t like to use the word lie – about what he is saying. So, no, I think it was completely, entirely appropriate. And considering some of the other exuberances within me, the courteous thing to do.’

‘Now, all presidents have guests – constant guests – that was not a State of the Union. That was a state – his state of mind. We want a State of the Union. Where are we, where are we going and the rest. Not, ‘Let me just show you how many guests I can draw. And let me say how I can give a medal of honor’ – do it in your own office. We don’t come in your office and do Congressional business. Why are you doing that here? In any event I feel very liberated. I feel very liberated. I feel that I have extended every possible courtesy. I have shown every level of respect. I say to my Members all the time, there is no such thing as eternal animosity. There are eternal friendships, but you never know on what cause you may come together with someone you may perceive as your foe right now. Everybody is a possible ally in whatever comes next. ‘E pluribus unum.’ From many, one. We don't know how many we’d be or how different we’d be, but they want us always to remember that we were one. And they, our Founders, had their differences, as do we. Again, I extended the hand of friendship to him, to welcome him as the President of the United States, to the People’s House. It was also an act of kindness, because he looked to me like he was a little sedated. He looked that way last year too, but he didn’t want to shake hands. That was that. That meant nothing to me. It had nothing to do with my tearing it up. That came much later. I’m a speed reader. I just went right through that thing. So, I knew what was coming when I saw the compilation of falsehoods, but when I heard the first quarter or third I started to think there has to be something that clearly indicates to the American people that this is not the truth. And he has shredded the truth in his speech. He’s shredding the Constitution in his conduct. I shredded his state of his mind address.’

Yikes!

Dangerous Ego

It’s no question that our country is completely divided right now. Our government is completely broken. A clown is using our government to boost his ego, to be in the history books. At least, he will be in the history books as an impeached president. And if common sense and good prevails, as the worst president in history come November.

One Truth One Lie

During his impeachment victory celebration speech, Trump said the following line.

‘We’ve gone through more than any president or administration, and really, I say for the most part, Republican congressmen, congresswomen and Republican senators, we’ve done more than any administration in the first few years.‘

There is definitely one lie there and one truth. Any guesses? Ha!

See at least I’ll give him that. No, that. That first part. Only the first part!

You can watch Speaker Pelosi’s speech by clicking here. You can watch President Trump’s speech by clicking here.

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veoakes3 · 5 years

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Carry the Torch

“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1

When a storm rages, a ship is tossed at sea. It’s pulled in different directions. Items on board are scattered. Despite best efforts, outside water splashes in. Random debris sometimes flies and threatens damage. Lightening attacks, because it’s surrounded by an environment that attracts its pull. Crew members feel panicked, fearful. How will this end? Then, the storm quiets. The environment that raged war against their lives hours before is peaceful, serene.

Can’t life feel like that at times? One minute, calm. The next, uncontrolled chaos. Sometimes it’s with actual happenings in life- both in and out of our control. Others can see it and swoop in to your aid. Sometimes it’s subtle and disguised- emotionally, mentally, spiritually, hidden from the outside world, but brewing in the pit of your soul.

I’ve been experiencing one of the latter storms lately. My soul has been troubled by things out of my control. Things I could have influence on, but that don’t directly impact me. Things I love. Things I long to see.

“How, God?” The question has flipped in my mind over and over and over…

This weekend, at the peak of the internal chaos, God yelled to my storm: “You have never been enough. You will never be enough, and that’s ok. JESUS IS ENOUGH.” Serenity.

Let me provide context.

January 27, 2019 will forever be one of those days that I will remember as God flipping the script in my soul. In hindsight, He has used this storm I referred to earlier to prepare my heart for the His perspective of the bigger picture.

Isn’t it even more poetic that this came through a running-themed sermon?

Though the entire message took root in my heart, one simple metaphor yelled louder than them all.

We, as humans, have a horrible habit of making ourselves the center of the story, thinking we’re the only, sometimes even the best. This isn’t always intentional. It is the natural, selfish tendency we’re hardwired with as sinful beings.

This is true with the Body of Christ, as well. We tend to look at our world and our story in the now. Past generations are just that to us- past generations, our history and story to pass along.

How surface-level of us.

Our pastor encouraged us to view The Body as a relay team. The first runners would be the apostles, the early church. The last runners would be the generation alive when Jesus returns.

When Jesus ascended, He left His people with the task of running His race. When the Holy Spirit was given the early church, it signified Him passing the torch to them.

Generations before us have boldly run, though they knew it was possible they would never see His earthly promise fulfilled in their lifetime. They kept the flame high and ran with purpose, a Great Commission. When they passed on, so was the torch.

Generations later, we find ourselves. It’s our turn to carry it on.

Satan is the master manipulator, deceiver, and father of confusion and lies. He uses our hard-wired nature to trap us in a mind-frame of self focus. Many of us, myself included, go about our lives with the thought of loving God, making choices that reflect Him and show His love. One day, we will die, and hopefully the world will know how good God is and how much we loved Him, based on how we responded to the trials and triumphs our our lives. Then, we’ll be with Him in paradise and hear, “Well done, my good and faithful servant.”

That’s not wrong. That will all hopefully happen, yes.

But when that is our sole focus, it puts US at the center of our existence, instead of the purpose of The Church in this fallen world.

When I accepted Jesus as my Lord, the torch was handed to me.

Though I will journey through the process of sanctification during my time on Earth, my purpose not to simply become the best, most Godly version of me.

My purpose is to run- to carry the torch, spread the flame, and do my part to keep Him alive until His promise on this side of eternity is fulfilled.

“How, God?” The question still echoed in the depths of my soul. With the world as it is, how do I do this properly? I don’t want to misspeak and push people away from You. I don’t want to appear pushy, when the world already sees us as people who shove beliefs down their throat. I don’t want to go out with good intentions, only for it to fall on ears that hear judgement, not love. On the flip side, I don’t want to ignore the urgency of the matter. I don’t want them to miss You, because of something I haven’t done. I don’t want to misrepresent You! How do I show them You aren’t just a choice, something we “do”, an adjective of our personalities, an aspect of our culture? How do I speak life into the heartache, when I haven’t personally walked through it, and they haven’t truly experienced a relationship with You? HOW do I carry my torch?

That’s when He YELLED to the storm of panic and confusion in my soul: “YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN ENOUGH. YOU WILL NEVER BE ENOUGH, AND THAT’S OK, BECAUSE JESUS IS ENOUGH.”

Tears.

In my races, do you know what would happen if I spent my time worrying about what to wear, how to place my foot with each step, where I would turn on the routes, the terrain of the courses? I would never actually run.

I show up to races, wearing the “armor” I know is appropriate for the course and distance, based on study, practice, and previous experience. I trust that the one who organized the race and made the course will have people who show me where to turn. They will have certain roads blocked to keep me safe. There will be aid on the course in all different forms- water, fuel, bathrooms, medical- all to sustain me on during the run. I trust that the runners surrounding me will look out for me, just as I will them- yelling “Car up! Car back! Watch the hole! Gravel!” They will encourage me when I feel fatigued. They will remind me why I started, and they will relight my fire to finish if it burns out.

He continued to speak to my heart: “You cannot worry solely about yourself or your appearance in this world, even if it is for Me. You have found the ultimate prize- Jesus. Every part of you, including every action, is covered in the blood. You are redeemed- forever. You long to run toward Me, so all of the other details fall away.

There are so many in this world who haven’t found Me though, and with each day that passes, My Son’s return inches closer. My people must find them. They are also fearfully and wonderfully made, and I love and long for them, just as much as I love and longed for you.

I have strategically planned each race course for those carrying their kingdom torch, and The Holy Spirit will coach each of you as you proceed through the miles. I have spread you all out, because no one person can do it all. Though you each have a different route, you will all end up at the same finish line- with Me. No one person, place, or event on your course is coincidence. You must remember the focus is not you.

It’s about the race.

Take heart, hold your torch high, and press into the darkness with courageous boldness, for I have overcome this world. (And something far better than chocolate milk and pizza is waiting at the end.)”

More of forever worthy Him, and less of forever thankful me

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overlywhirly replied to your post “why do people still think signing a petition is gonna boycott a movie...”

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I am already of the opinion that your video here is disrespectful to the mentally ill as it uses ‘triggering’ in a sarcastic manner and triggers are a legitimate thing and should not be joked about or taken lightly, signed, a person with PTSD....but that’s a discussion for another time. just know that I already have an extremely low opinion of your video. it’s not coming from a place of caring about the mentally ill or understanding the stigma around our disorders, and therefore, it really can’t make any valid points.

but that doesn’t mean I won’t do my best to rip the “points” apart anyway, so here we fuckin’ go!

two-face? first happened in 1942. there was so little understanding for the disorder then, first off. there wasn’t even a community to rally against bad portrayals of it. on top of that, I wasn’t alive. I’m twenty. you, uh, see the problem there, right?

in addition....do you have any idea how hard it is to change media that already exists? do you realize how difficult it is to try and get people to retcon shit that’s been canon in a media world for any period of time that is over a month? the reason we’re rallying against Split is because it’s brand-new and it’s barely out. there’s still time with this one. on top of that, it’s been incredibly hyped, and it’s in a popular genre--horror films. something like Criminal Minds? not quite as big a following as a horror film. so not only does it make more sense to oppose a new thing than all the old shit that’s existed for ages and would be much harder to even try and get rid of or point out as a problem, it’s also a much more hyped thing than past media portraying DID as scary and bad.

why don’t I talk about films demonizing things like bipolar? simple: I don’t have bipolar, and therefore, I know nothing about the stigma around it....so I’m not equipped to speak on it, just like the person in your video isn’t equipped to speak on this subject here!

“does the fact that the antagonists are scary or mean or evil make it okay?” wow, somehow both you and this guy managed to completely miss the point of everything we’ve been saying! no. that’s exactly the fucking problem: the antagonists have our disorder and they are scary and mean and evil. that’s the issue we’re talking about here, that’s the problem, please try to keep up. (also, Psycho came out in 1960, I was again not alive and there still wasn’t much of a DID community....are you getting the problems here yet?)

and yeah, sure, there’s shit that hits way closer to the mark in terms of general mental illness....but nothing that hits anywhere near the mark for DID. funny thing I can’t help noticing here? this dude in this video keeps using ‘DID’ and ‘mental illness’ like they’re interchangeable. news flash, buddy: they’re not. and this is an issue specific to DID, that affects only people with DID, not the general ‘mental illness’ community.

“people need to be victimized.” ....you know, I’m suddenly getting the feeling this is one of those guys who doesn’t think sexism is still a thing.

no, people don’t “need” to be victimized. sure, there are probably people who enjoy feeling that way, but they’re not the majority and don’t try to pretend that they are. “people need to feel victimized” is an extremely typical response to actual fucking problems like racism, sexism, ableism, transphobia, and so on. and dismissal of actual problems is what leads to shit like Trump’s presidency! but you keep on toting that “people are making shit up because they want to feel victimized!” flag if it helps you sleep better at night for being so self-centered.

oh wow, we managed to hit on something I actually think is a problem! people fabricating mental illnesses while I, a person with the actual disorder, wonder why anyone would ever want it for themselves. yes, there are lots of people who fake DID or similar on Tumblr, and no, I don’t really get why they would; DID sucks ass, if I’m being honest. it’s just too bad that you and this fellow here can’t put two and two together to realize “people with the actual disorder are upset over people faking it inaccurately and causing problems for those with the actual disorder who need to be taken seriously” is also applicable to “horror movie blows disorder out of proportion, calls it the by the disorder’s name, and uses it as a cheap horror scare while making people with the disorder seem dangerous.”

almost every antagonist in a horror film suffers from some kind of mental condition, you claim? mmm...maybe. I’m sure, if we looked at every antagonist ever in a horror film, we could probably diagnose the undiagnosed ones with some form of a psychiatric problem, based on what was close to what the antagonist seemed to display.

however!

this movie, Split? it’s a DID-based movie. it uses the disorder’s goddamn name. it talks about multiple personalities. it makes it VERY fucking clear that this is DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER and nothing else. I can think of, off the top of my head, three horror films I really liked that didn’t label a mental illness for the antagonist to have the way Split does. that right there’s a big part of the problem. in addition, Split’s gone after a very distinctive mental illness--even if they hadn’t labeled it, it would be very clear what they were talking about. also a problem! on top of that....no, this claim is absolutely false; not every antagonist in a horror film is given a mental illness the way Split has given one to their antagonist. I can think of two off the top of my head that I’ve seen and enjoyed that didn’t use mental illness for horror factor at all. I can think of a third that used an extreme version of an existing autoimmune disorder as part of the horror factor. so no, this claim is very false. but even then--you’re not wrong. mental illness is often used as a scare factor in horror films. especially the “scary and dangerous” ones, like psychosis. it may shock you to find I also have a problem with that! but surprisingly, I have a limited amount of energy to devote to online stuff and opposing things, and so I’m trying to take this whole ‘trying to get better portrayals of the mentally ill’ thing one fight at a time. Split caught my eye because it’s been so hyped, and I went from there.

and hey, guess what? part of the whole fucking problem here is that Split is super inaccurately representing DID....in exactly the same way it’s been misrepresented many times before: as a scary disorder that makes you a murderer. like....again, this is part of the problem. (really starting to wonder if you read any of my posts at all, dude.)

why no outcry against the PTSD portrayal of the pink stuffed bear in Toy Story 3? I can posit three guesses: one, it’s a movie targeted for kids, who are rarely in a position to recognize or speak out against PTSD and portrayals of mental illness. kinda an obvious fact there, I’d think? anyway. two, PTSD absolutely can make someone overreactive, easily upset, easily triggered, and sometimes downright cruel or dangerous. that’s not an incorrect portrayal on the whole, and so I wouldn’t actually be upset by it. three, there are decently positive portrayals of PTSD in existence--something DID doesn’t have. PTSD affects many people and is relatively well known about and talked about and not horribly demonized as “having this makes you scary and terrifying”. which isn’t to say it’s totally accepted, but it’s doing better than DID! DID, on the other hand, partly because of its media history and partly because of how few people it affects, is rarely discussed, often demonized, and sometimes even viewed as fake....all of which makes it very hard for actual sufferers of DID LIKE ME to talk about their disorder, discuss it with anyone, be open about it with friends, family, or even therapists--which are PROBLEMS. problems that movies like Split definitely contribute to, but movies like Toy Story 3 really don’t, for aforementioned reasons.

oh boy, here we go with twisting the facts and ignoring the actual truth of how PTSD is handled in most media versus how DID is handled in most media! no, idiot, Toy Story 3 is not teaching kids to ‘fear people with PTSD’. for one thing, by the time a kid learns what PTSD actually is and puts it together that the bear has it, they’ll probably have seen a positive portrayal of it, or they’ll know someone who has it, or at worst, they will have it, and they’ll have to accept it and learn that people with PTSD aren’t scary. on the other hand, DID doesn’t get positive media, people rarely know someone who has it, and it’s even rarer that someone will have it themselves. in addition, this is media directed at adults, who will be able to process that Split is about a real disorder since they NAME IT IN THE MOVIE (the disorder of the bear in Toy Story 3 is UNNAMED), and will already know about mental illness and mental disorders, and will probably take away that DID is a scary disorder at the bottom line.

re: isn’t it teaching kids that if they had a traumatic experience, they’ll probably become evil? ahahahaha. wow. it’s almost like that’s not a rhetoric tossed out to abuse survivors with PTSD all the time, that they’ll grow up to replicate their abuse....OH WAIT IT IS WOW WHAT A COINCIDENCE

.....I don’t think my DID makes me a better type of person, lmao, so I’m not sure where we got THAT from

anyway....in conclusion, I think you and this guy are both idiots who didn’t do their research, and I think you didn’t read my posts at all, and I hope you’ve appreciated this picking apart of this dumbass video! assuming you’re still with me, that is, which I assume you’re not--people like you tend to be giant narcissists who don’t care about others and just want to enjoy things without those damn whiny babies it’s harming speaking up.

#overlywhirly #eevee is rude #like I'm fucking sick of this discussion tbh #if you didn't get it the first time you won't get it the millionth time #but I gotta try anyway #I gotta try.#did #dissociative identity disorder #not pd feels #eevee talks #split #think that's all the needed tags lmao but who knows

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Thinking about it makes me wish I were eight years old. – Vinton Cerf • If I do need to make money suddenly, I prefer to just draw something I want to draw and have someone else sell it for me on the Internet. – Chester Brown • If some unemployed punk in New Jersey, can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka. – Dennis Miller • If the Internet can be described as a giant human consciousness, then viral marketing is the illusion of free will. – George Pendle • If the Internet is worth its salt, it has to help arrest the forces that promote inequality, monopoly, hypercommercialism, corruption, depoliticization and stagnation. – Robert Waterman McChesney • If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we’re toast. But if it is, we’re golden. – Larry Ellison • If you and I got on an airplane, you’re going to L.A., Los Angeles, and I’m going to Senegal, we get there about the same time. The world is just that small. So a world that is so tightly bound by science and technology and now Internet and the web page, that world is too small for bullies. It has no room in that world for arrogance. – Jesse Jackson • If you have a kid and you try irony out on them, they don’t get it at 7, 8 years old. You can’t really hide the Internet from kids. It worries me some particularly because I’ve done Disney and Pixar stuff. – Randy Newman • If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.- Danny Hillis • If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting. – Chris DeWolfe • If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business. – Richard Branson • I’m a great believer in particularly being alert to changes that change something, anything, by an order of magnitude, and nothing operates with the factors of 10 as profoundly as the Internet. – Andy Grove • Im accustomed to Internet forums where rudeness and incivility are the rule, where too many people seem to take pride in their insults. – Bryan Burrough • I’m lucky enough to have been in the age before the internet and now during the internet. I’m grateful to be a witness to that. It’s horse and buggy versus car. To see how quickly things change has given me a renewed sense of optimism. Does that make sense? – Kathleen Hanna Impact, Roles, Stuff • In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have – it lays it all out on the line and baits the artist, like a light baits a mosquito. And you go right into it. With every comment on the internet, you go up, you go down, and it’s a big shitshow full of uneducated people. – Willis Earl Beal • In much the same way, motherhood has become the essential female experience, valued above all others: giving life is where it’s at. Give birth in cities where accommodation is precarious, schools have surrendered the fight and children are subject to the most vicious mental assault through advertising, TV, internet, fizzy drink manufacturers and so on. Without children you will never be fulfilled as a woman, but bringing up kids in decent conditions is almost impossible. – Virginie Despentes • In order for us [people] to progress, we need brilliance and brilliance isn’t fair and it’s not polite and we can’t grow it. It happens. Genius happens and it doesn’t always happen in a zip code where we can access it. Therefore, we kind of need [Internet] not to keep tabs on everybody but we need to give them access to everybody else. – Augusten Burroughs • In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical. – Joss Whedon • In the Internet age, with the screaming on the radio, etc., it is hard to know what to believe and who is informed and who is not. – Michael Specter • In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone. – Bill Gates Information, Pickles, Turns • Innovation is what America does best. Whether it is the Apollo Project to the moon, developing the most advanced defense technologies available, the rise of the Internet or the latest advancements in biomedical gene therapies, our nation leads the world in transformative innovations. – Martin Heinrich • Internet technology, like anything else that mankind creates is a tool and that tool can be used for good or for evil, like a light saber. Technology is supposed to bring people together, streamline things and make life easier and in a lot of ways it does that. However, technology can also disconnect you from other people and break down the social network, the real social network of family and friends and interpersonal communication, and isolate people, make them feel alone, make them feel small. So it’s a tool that needs to be used correctly. – Rainn Wilson • Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That’s the sky. If you’re still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow. – Stephen Colbert • It all stems from the same thing – which is that when we are face to face – and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook … when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We’re aware that we’re with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being. – Sherry Turkle • It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides – after all, it’s not a revolution if nobody loses. – Clay Shirky • It shouldn’t be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. – Denise Caruso • Its flattering that there are lots of Internet fan sites about me. Im a bit of a technophobe and I dont even own a laptop, but its probably a good thing Im not logged on, checking up on what everyone is saying about me. – Jonas Armstrong • It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. – George W. Bush • It’s like they say in the Internet world — if you’re doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you’re doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that. – Bruce Feiler • It’s very advantageous to be sensitive with your work – and, yet, being sensitive, in reality, when criticized, it can annihilate you. It can destroy you. And with the internet there sometimes is a lot of harm, which I find must be very difficult for youngsters coming on – it can be very harsh; the criticism. And, sometimes, it can be a little cruel – which makes it hard for young performers coming on. – Michael Crawford • I’ve learned a lot about things because of the Internet. I’m happy with it, but it’s a long road for me. I’m still definitely a little anti. – Patrick Stump • John Kerry is finding out that it is no fun to be the front runner, that’s when you get all the heat. He had to deny internet rumors this week that he had Botox treatments. The Republicans say Kerry should have a clear, unfurrowed brow the old fashioned way by not giving a sh–. – Bill Maher • Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection. – Don Tapscott • Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects. – Stewart Dalzell • Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC. – Andy Grove • Magazines that depend on photography, and design, and long reads, and quality stuff, are going to do just fine despite the Internet and cable news. – Jann Wenner • Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen. – Douglas Rushkoff • Most kids come home from school. They don’t go to their TVs first. They go to the Internet. They check their emails, or some blogs, or some sites. Then they go watch TV. Other people are at work all day 9-5 in front of a computer. They see certain clips. We’re not going to hide the fact that people use the Internet. We’re going to try to be as interactive as possible with our fans. I’m currently on Twitter and Facebook and Flicker and Dig. I’m on all that stuff. – Jimmy Fallon • My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.- Penn Jillette • My wife and I have purchased two hybrids. We bought a 3 kw photovoltaic unit. We recycle and offset our carbon emissions on the Internet. We turn things off. But we also spend two nice salaries every year, and here’s the dirty little secret – our environmental footprint is HUGE, I’m sure. We’ve all got to do what we can in our individual lives, but we’ve also got to drive the systemic changes that will make the big differences. – James Gustave Speth • Net Neutrality’ is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government. – Ted Cruz • Net neutrality was essential for our economy; it was essential to preserve freedom and openness, both for economic reasons and free speech reasons, and the government had a role in ensuring that Internet freedom was protected.- Julius Genachowski • Newspapers and magazines didn’t want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that’s all the media wants. – Mick Rock • Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention – phones, Internet – and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present. – Nicholas Hoult • Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. – Al-Waleed bin Talal • On Chinese Internet, freedom is a targeted and precise window. – Michael Anti • On the Internet you get continuous innovation, so every year the streams are a little better. – Reed Hastings • On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.- James Salter • On the Internet, there are an unlimited number of competitors. Anybody with a Flip camera is your competition. What makes it even worse is that YouTube is willing to subsidize the cost of your bandwidth. So anybody can create and distribute for free basically, but the real cost is marketing. And that’s always the big cost – how do you stand out and what’s the cost of standing out? And there’s no limit to that cost. – Mark Cuban • One of the Internet’s strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data. – Jared Sandberg • One of the myths about the Internet of Things is that companies have all the data they need, but their real challenge is making sense of it. In reality, the cost of collecting some kinds of data remains too high, the quality of the data isn’t always good enough, and it remains difficult to integrate multiple data sources. – Chris Murphy • One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing.- John Green • One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990’s citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China’s policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation. – William J. Clinton • One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life. – Eric Kandel • People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there’s been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it’s actually kind of fragile.- Danny Hillis • People depend on the Open Internet to connect and communicate with each other freely. Voters need it to inform themselves before casting ballots. Without prompt corrective action by the Commission to reclassify broadband, this awful ruling will serve as a sorry memorial to the corporate abrogation of free speech. – Michael Copps • People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We’ve learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we’re at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue. – Ken Robinson • People wouldn’t go on Facebook unless they wanted to share with groups of people. But there is this perception that you have been on a course to push people’s information where it’s visible across the Internet unless they do a bunch of stuff. – Walt Mossberg • Privacy is not an option, and it shouldn’t be the price we accept for just getting on the Internet. – Gary Kovacs • Reddit is not a public utility or a public square; its a privately owned space on the Internet. – John Scalzi • Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet. – Vinton Cerf • Social media and the Internet haven’t changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes. – Nicholas A. Christakis • Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are. – Kurt Vonnegut • Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we’re smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that’s because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn’t have electricity were neanderthals. – Glenn Beck • That is, we’re into a whole new world with the Internet, and whenever we sort of cross another plateau in our development, there are those who seek to take advantage of it. So this is a replay of things that have happened throughout our history. – William J. Clinton • The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. – Robert Darnton • The artistic desire reveals itself in dark form – in karaoke bars [or] trolling on the Internet. – Young-Ha Kim • The big change, the really radical change in communication, was in the late 19th century. The shift from sailing ships to telegraph is astronomical. Everything since then has been small increments, including the internet. – Noam Chomsky • The big downside to the global village that the Internet has created is that nothing has time to grow out of the public gaze and, even more dangerous, whatever your personal interests might be, there will always be someone somewhere to provide validation and encouragement. – Derek Ridgers • The boom was healthy too, even with its excesses. Because what this incredible valuation craze did was draw untold sums of billions of dollars into building the Internet infrastructure. The hundreds of billions of dollars that got invested in telecommunications, for example. – Andy Grove • The constant buzz and pressure and noise and static of the Internet, and the way it makes young people feel makes it difficult to grow up and develop the way one might want to. – Ethan Hawke • The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder. – Al Gore • The Internet “browser”… is the piece of software that puts a message on your computer screen informing you that the Internet is currently busy and you should try again later. – Dave Barry • The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. Someone the other day said, “It’s the biggest thing since Gutenberg,” and then someone else said “No, it’s the biggest thing since the invention of writing.”- Rupert Murdoch • The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years. – Rupert Murdoch • The Internet has really democratized ideas. There are no real gatekeepers any more, because if you have a great idea, and you put it online, people will find it and it will get in front of who it needs to get in front of. – Justin Halpern • The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, “people without lives.” We don’t care. We have each other. – Dave Barry • The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, “people without lives.” We don’t care. We have each other…. While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Internet are exchanging, freely and openly, the most settings, uninhibited, intimate and, yes, shocking details about our “CONFIG.SYS.” – Dave Barry • The Internet is a telephone system that’s gotten uppity. – Clifford Stoll • The Internet is a very intimate entertainment experience. I’m in my own apartment talking to people, and I want them to feel like they’re with me in my apartment. So if I’m listening to them and taking ideas from them and being honest with how I’m feeling, it resonates even more that we’re having a real, actual conversation. – Grace Helbig • The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined. – Kim Dotcom • The internet is an amazing medium for languages. – David Crystal • The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow. – Bill Gates • The Internet is disrupting every media industry…people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling. – Jeff Bezos • The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. – Jon Stewart • The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans. – Will Hobbs • The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. – Esther Dyson • The Internet is merely a new means of communication, that’s all it is. It serves the purpose of getting information, which it is fantastic at. I mean, I live by the Internet in terms of research and it’s incredible – there’s nothing that you can’t find out about. It’s not stopped me going to bookshops but I must say that I don’t go into as many because any book I want. – David Bowie • The internet is necessarily public. It can be filtered-public or censored-public, but it necessarily has to be open and available. – John Green • The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn’t understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had. – Eric Schmidt • The Internet is the great equalizer.The technology which emanated from the Silicon Valley of California has more potential to ameliorate social inequality than any development in the history of the world, including the industrial revolution. – Benazir Bhutto • The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry. – Michael Ovitz • The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. – Dave Barry • The internet makes everything not enough. – Alec Sulkin • The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it’s just terrifying when you’re actually experiencing it as a person.- Bradford Cox • The Internet seems like a safe house for the opposite mentality, for cynics and for jerks and for people who want to lash out. And it’s a valid thing. It’s a valid forum and I’m not going say that they aren’t valid feelings. But it’s sad. Considering the potential that something like the Internet, that connects so many people, has for good. I think it’s sad that it’s used so often for nothing but unfounded, overzealous negativity. – Chris Gethard • The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn’t imagine living without it. – Nicola Formichetti • The Internet was done so well that most people think of it as a natural resource like the Pacific Ocean, rather than something that was man-made. When was the last time a technology with a scale like that was so error-free? The Web, in comparison, is a joke. The Web was done by amateurs. – Alan Kay • The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other. – Bill Gates • The Internet, I’m trying to point out, is a kooks’ paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true. – David F. Emery • The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs. – Philip Elmer-DeWitt • The Internet, too, has strong attributes of a public good, and has undermined the “private good” attributes of old media. Internet service providers obviously can exclude people, but the actual content -the values, the ideas- can be shared with no loss of value for the consumer. It is also extremely inexpensive and easy to share material. Sharing is built into the culture and practices of the Web and has made it difficult for the subscription model to be effective. – Robert Waterman McChesney • The Internet]is a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.- Theodore Stevens • The Internets distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom. – Jonathan Zittrain • The internet’s perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain’t one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering. – Charlie Brooker • The key is really just saying my brain isn’t big enough to figure out why everything happens. It would be like an ant trying to understand the internet. – Rick Warren • The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation. – Sergey Brin • The most important thing for people to understand is that the basic rule that people have a right to send information over the Internet – even when they are using a wireless device – is part of the framework. – Julius Genachowski • The new information technology… Internet and e-mail… have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications. – Peter Drucker • The old internet is shrinking and being replaced by walled gardens over which Google’s crawlers can’t climb. – John Battelle • The penetration of society by the Internet and the penetration of the Internet by society is the best thing that has ever happened to global human civilisation. – Julian Assange • The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services. – Vinton Cerf • The screen is a window through which one sees a virtual world. The challenge is to make that world look real, act real, sound real, feel real. – Ivan Sutherland • The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.- Tim Berners-Lee • The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that’s great. – Keanu Reeves • The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game. – Johnny Ramistella • The whole, ‘Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing’? We’re done with that. It’s just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good – that’s the really big challenge. – Clay Shirky • The worst and the best that the internet ever did was give everybody a voice. – Simon Pegg • There are two things in particular that it [the computer industry] failed to foresee: one was the coming of the Internet(…); the other was the fact that the century would end. – Douglas Adams • There is a very personal price to public humiliation, and the growth of the Internet has jacked up that price. – Monica Lewinsky • There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009. – Ben Parr • There’s no real organised body, … so through the internet people have spread their videos, spread photos, and spread word of a new urban movement. – Chris Hayes • Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.- Steve Case • Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful. – David Filo • To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas. – Bill Gates • To seek Truth is automatically a calling for the innate dissident and the subversive; how many are willing to give up safety and security for the perilous life of the spiritual revolutionary? How many are willing to truly learn that their own cherished concepts are wrong? Striking provocative or mysterious poses in the safety of Internet [social media] is far easier than taking the risks involved in the hard work of genuine initiation. – Zeena Schreck • Today with technological advancement, with the Internet, with planes, with the rate at which we travel – even if you wanted, you cannot hide from the rest of the world. And whether you like it or not, you are part of this global marketplace, and so you might as well understand it, you might as well embrace it, because even if you hide, it will find you. – • Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives. – Hedi Slimane • Trade on the Internet is becoming very widespread. The problem is our laws have not caught up with electronic commerce. – Susan Bysiewicz • Turns out, theres not a lot of information about pickles on the Internet. – Brian Posehn • US has to be able to rely on a safe and interconnected internet in order to compete with other countries. – Edward Snowden • US spend more on research and development than the other countries, so we shouldn’t be making the internet a more hostile, a more aggressive territory. – Edward Snowden • Use the Internet to get off the Internet! – Scott Heiferman • Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue. – Mark Cuban • We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches. – Larry Page • We believe we’re moving out of the Ice Age, the Iron Age, the Industrial Age, the Information Age, to the participation age. You get on the Net and you do stuff. You IM (instant message), you blog, you take pictures, you publish, you podcast, you transact, you distance learn, you telemedicine. You are participating on the Internet, not just viewing stuff. We build the infrastructure that goes in the data center that facilitates the participation age. We build that big friggin’ Webtone switch. It has security, directory, identity, privacy, storage, compute, the whole Web services stack. – Scott McNealy • We didn’t know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there. – Burt Rutan • We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the Internet in this country. – Tony Abbott • We must also promote global access to the Internet. We need to bridge the digital divide not just within our country. But among countries. Only by giving people around the world access to this technology can they tap into the potential. Of the information age. – Al Gore • We’re into tech stuff, gadgets, phones, video games. We’ll treat a video game premiere like a movie premiere. I’m just going to be honest with what I like and what I do. What I enjoy. We’re not going to hide the fact that people are on the Internet all day. I think a lot of shows don’t really mention that. – Jimmy Fallon • What we need is a plan B … independent of the Internet. [It] doesn’t necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department. – Danny Hillis • What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a ‘modem’, can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo – Dave Barry • When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet. – David Leonhardt • When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort of heavy infrastructure, critical infrastructure areas. And they could be hit, as long as they’re network connected, as long as they have some kind of systems that interact with them that could be manipulated from internet connection. – Edward Snowden • When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition. – Neil Strauss • When you find yourself on the Internet when you’re supposed to be writing, you’ve already lost. It’s even beyond procrastination when you end up on the Internet. – Noah Baumbach • When you get a small group of fans who hate something, it becomes compounded by the internet. The press picks up the internet like it’s a source. They don’t realise it is just one person typing out their opinion. – George Lucas • When you make the claim that something on the Internet is going to be good for democracy, you often [hear], ‘Are you talking about the thing with the singing cats?’ – Clay Shirky • When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war. – Edward Snowden • Who needs evidence when you’ve got the Internet? – Christopher Buckley • Will the highways on the Internet become more few? – George W. Bush • With the development of the Internet…we are in the middle of the most transforming technological event since the capture of fire. I used to think that it was just the biggest thing since Gutenberg, but now I think you have to go back farther. – John Perry Barlow • With YouTube – with the Internet in general – you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators. – Chad Hurley • You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It’s like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity. – John Legend • You can go back to tulip bulbs in Holland 400 years ago. The human beings going through combinations of fear and greed and all of that sort of thing, their behavior can lead to bubbles. And it may have had and Internet bubble at one time, you’ve had a farm bubble, farmland bubble in the Midwest which resulted in all kinds of tragedy in the early ’80s. – Howard Warren Buffett • You could have these crazy Internet valuations in the late 1990s, but they prove themselves out in the market. The next day they were selling for more than they were the day before, and people said, you know, you’re crazy if you don’t get in on this. So it’s very human. – Howard Warren Buffett • You have to be very clear with yourself about how you’re going to spend your time. When a child is at school or napping, you need to realize that this is your writing time and you don’t spend it surfing the Internet or reading. – Elizabeth Hoyt • You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains? – Shawn Achor • Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say ‘We have access to that, but we’re going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we’re going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.’ – Kathleen Hanna

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BTS Army

Imagine seeing complete darkness and not a light around until 7 harmonious voices break through the crowd . Then the night begins to light up as if glitter and diamonds sparkle through the darkness . Each one of those lights is a soul that BTS has healed through their music , charities , caring , and love .

“You got me I dream while looking at you I got you In the nights that are pitch black Each other's light that we saw We were saying the same thing Starlight shining brighter than the darkest night Starlight shining brighter than the darkest night The later the night gets, the brighter the starlight One history in one person One star in one person Shining with 7 billion lights 7 billion worlds”

These are lyrics of their song Mikrokosmos , from their album , Map of the Soul: Persona . The album is dedicated to all of their fans called Army . Army is always misrepresented as young boy crazy teenagers , which is completely wrong . Army is made up of many diverse people . We are mothers , fathers , teenagers, grandmothers , and grandfathers . Army has doctors , lawyers , artists , teachers , stay at home moms , tv hosts , and so much more talented and focused people .One of Army is a 35 years old paraprofessional . When she has a rough day or is depressed and wants to escape reality she listens to BTS’S music or watch their videos and the days stresses start to melt away . A 21 year old ARMY said that in a very difficult time she found BTS on Youtube . She was in college and was in a long distance relationship with someone that cheated and didn’t know how special she was and she didn’t know her worth either . When that relationship ended badly BTS woke her up and taught her that life isn’t about just who you are dating . They taught her its about learning to love who you are and to hold the ones that root for you close and to love and cherish them . BTS also taught her to never give up on your dreams and to never be to hard on yourself about making mistakes and once you realize that , everything else will fall into place . Army’s message to other ARMY is that , if you are struggling and feel alone , we are here for you and so is BTS . She even quoted one of the members , J-Hope . ”When tomorrow comes, the bright light will shine so don't worry. This isn't a stop but just a pause in your life for a break.”

The sad thing is even though the media knows Army is diverse they continue to represent us in the media as crazy obsessed fans . The truth is we are honestly a family . How do I know , because I am Army and very proud of it . Anytime I am a horrible day or I am sick Army is always there for me . Army is there to support BTS and their goals and dreams . We are also there for each other and each others dreams . I am only speaking for myself but I know Army feels the same way , but BTS teaches us so much . For me they taught me that its okay to have disabilities but it doesn't define me .They also taught me that I need to love myself for who I am . BTS also taught Army about charity and how important it is to others that are in need . To be kind to all people even if you don’t understand or agree with their views . To always go for your dreams because anything is possible .BTS and ARMY Everyone deserves equality no matter what ethnicity , their age ,their cultural background , their disabilities , their gender ,or sexual preference . We work really hard to always support BTS and other Army , we are a family we love , protect , and cherish BTS ,Halsey , and Army . Some may ask why we protect each other and the answer is the media and other fandoms like to drag BTS . Halsey , and Army through the mud . So we correct people , tell the facts and show receipts . Not all people like us and that’s fine but we will not allow people to spread lies about BTS , Halsey , or Army . We want to spread love and not hate and of course with millions of Army there will be mistakes but we will let each other know when we are wrong , thats what a family does . We may have disagreements but we always are there for our family . Does Army have a few bad apples well yes but we there is over 21 million fans so of course there will be a few toxic people but we try to correct it . I know with every ounce of my being that we are doing our best to convey what BTS is , stands for , dreams, and goals . I know all of Army is very very very proud of our 7 beautiful men , BTS . Knowing how far they have come and how hard they have worked , they deserve the best and so much more . They care very deeply for Army and do the very best in every song , dance , interview , and performance . The relationship between BTS and ARMY is beautiful . BTS leads by example and shows us how to be people the best version of us .. BTS is the light in a very dark and scary world . So thank you Kim Namjoon {RM} , Kim Seokjin {Jin} , Min Yoon-gi {Suga} , Jung Hoseok [J-Hope} , Park Jimin {Jimin} , Kim Taehyung {V} , and Jeon Jeong-guk {Jungkook} for loving ,caring , and baring your souls to Army . Thank you for working your minds and bodies so hard to produce art for Army . We love and purple you all forever and always .

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Thought Paper #2: Misrepresentation

Regardless if what you see or hear is a fantasy, when it is constantly in your face it becomes your reality. Media has always been a powerful force in society, and heavily influences the way one can perceive other people, communities around them, and the world. The media contributes to the maintenance of inequalities because it pushes the notion that whiteness is rightness. With the subtle and blatant dehumanization of people of color, especially Black people, cause an exaggerated and unnecessary sense fear and puts a target on the backs of marginalized groups. bell hook’s Oppositional Gaze touches on the ways Black people should look at these incorrect representations and what should be done about them. hooks also goes into the difference in how Black men and women look at these representations and how Black women are more often than not get the short end of the stick. The difference in how Black and White people are treated in schools, businesses, the justice system, and advertising heavily relies on the way the media puts us out in the public. How deep these differences go also bring light to the difference in how Black men and women are represented in the media as well.

How are group of people is represented in the media, true or not, often is how society sees that group. From being nameless in the media to only have stereotypical roles available in entertainment, Black people are constantly victims of inequality. In media like the news White people are given the benefit of the doubt when they commit crimes. Their names, occupations, accolades, number of children, dog’s name, and favorite things to do are displayed when speaking of this White person that committed a crime. Even pictures that give them suburban and innocent demeanor are shown as well. This makes the person seen as if they are incapable of committing a crime, and if not always, most of the time makes you think maybe they got the wrong person. But in the case of Black people, incriminating pictures are used to show the accused. News networks will mention any potential prior or accused crimes of the person as well, making it extremely difficult to not see Black people as criminals and dangerous.

On the same note, but a different token the same type of framing happens with school shooting vs. any kind of violence committed by Black people. In the history of school shooting, an overwhelming amount of them have been committed by White men, but instead of seeing these people as the criminals they are, they get dubbed as mentally ill. And although that is the easy way to explain such tragic events, the reality is that not every person that does horrible things is “crazy”. I bring this up due to the fact that the same energy is not kept when Black people are involved. I personally do not know of any Black people who have committed mass shootings, and maybe that is my lack of knowledge or that there haven’t been any, but what I do know is that when Black people commit crimes like killings the media can’t even begin to conceive the idea that they could have mental illnesses as well. Having to deal with it being mandatory to work two to eight times harder than everyone else around you, having to grow up sooner than your counterparts, having to calculate every move you make around certain people and police, having to potentially code switch based on who you are speaking to, especially if you want to continue to or even just simply be employed, having to fight and protest for things that you deserve, having to see people you know being killed and abused because of the color of their skin, and having a goal be seeing the light of day tomorrow, Black people are forced to deal with so much just to be able to survive, and maybe make a living in this world, all of these are very possible reasons that a person could be mentally ill, or commit a crime, but being Black doesn’t come with the benefit of the doubt.

The misrepresentation of Black people is deeply rooted in this country. With caricatures like the Black Sambo, who played on the idea that the enslaved were content, and even happy about their place in society. The Black Mammy, who was depicted as pitch black, fat and happily obedient to her master and mistress. The Zip Coon, who was a caricature that mocked Black people in the North. It portrayed a Black person attempting to “act” white in their speech, dressing, and behavior, but failing miserably. The Zip Coon was a caricature that made inequality a joke because it made it seem that Black people were incapable of being the equal of white people. The Sapphire, who portrays black women as rude, loud, malicious, stubborn, and overbearing, the use of the Sapphire created the “angry black woman” stereotype. All of this caricatures were how Black people were represented in the media, and White people fed into them. Whether it was being a part of one of the many minstrel shows or consuming them without questioning if these things were even true. These caricatures were referenced in the documentary Ethnic Notions, directed by Marlon Riggs. Ethnic Notions dissected the anti-black stereotypes that have and still do penetrate the media. This documentary opened my eyes to how in most cases Black people are taken for a joke, our misrepresented experiences, pain, and oppression was, a still is used for comedic pleasure.

To be Black in this society is hard, and to be a Black women in this society is harder. Oppositional Gaze, an essay written by Gloria Jean Watkins, better known by her pen name bell hooks, is an American author, feminist, and social activist. The name "bell hooks" is derived from that of her great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks. hooks speaks on the difference in how Black women and Black men are viewed and relate to the media she also discusses the importance of gaze. The meaning I got from gaze was being conscious, which is why I believe people who are politically and socially powerful want the masses to be separated from their gazes. This lack of consciousness ultimately allows people who have no concept of the Black experience to make a profit off of it’s misrepresentation. This misrepresentation affects all Black people, but due to the different types of gazes we have the effect is more severe for some. For example, due to Black men have the male gaze they can connect to the media they watch, whether it be the way the view women, sexuality, life, or education. Although for Black women the representation we see only goes as far as our bodies, sexualities, and perceived attitudes.

hooks speaks about the caricature of the Sapphire in the text as well. She describes the Sapphire’s purpose as being the one who makes the Black man likeable, humorous, and human to the audience, by being the opposite. When I read this I thought of the Black women on tv that I have seen and were most likely suppose to represent these Sapphires. There were Thelma and Winona from Good Times, Thelma would always make fun of her brother J.J. and insult his intelligence, and Winona always criticized Bookman for his weight. Others included the notorious Pam from Martin, Gina’s best friend who would go back and forth with Martin anytime they saw each other. I then thought about how all three of these women happen to be of a darker skin-tone. This made me dig deeper into the angry Black woman stereotype. Think, most of the time when someone is described as an “angry Black woman” they are dark, which demonizes dark skinned women. But what I don’t understand with the stereotype is why no on ever asked why these women are angry. In all honesty with the examples I gave it is because the men they criticized didn’t know how to act, and the way the audience takes this arguing might be deeper than it actually is. Most people insult the people their close with, and at the end of the day it’s all jokes, but its when Black people do it it’s seen as “castration of the Black man”. Then I compared Thelma, Pam, and Winona to Whitley Gilbert from A Different World, and realized that Whitley had many of the same characteristics of these women, but due to her wealth, pristine attitude, and skin color she was seen as just being sassy. Whitley, before she fell in love with Dwayne, would insult and make fun of any and everyone, regardless if they initiated it or not. So, why is Whitley Gilbert, not seen as a Sapphire?

The way the media portrays that Black community is detrimental to our advancement. More often than the way we are treated by society heavily relies on how people see us. People will tell you that they form their own opinions, but in reality if something is in your face enough you will believe it. A possible solution to this issue is to have more Black reporters, actors, doctors, engineers, and business owners to show that we more than a statistic. The humanization of Black people is something that needs to be brought to life as well. Say our names, show our accolades, explain that we have children, siblings and parents, discuss the possibility of mental illness, and give us the benefit of the doubt regardless of how light or dark we are. Show Black people as what we are, people.

Works Cited

“Oppositional Gaze.” Black Looks: Race and Representation, by Bell Hooks, South End Press, 1992, pp. 115–131.

Riggs, Marlon, director. Ethnic Notions. California Newsreel, 1987.