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POSTED BY: RiveR6213
UPDATED: Saturday, February 11, 2006 23:05
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FREELANCEPILOT

Friday, February 10, 2006 6:53 AM

I flip flop sometimes.
I am half Korean, half Spanish.
I really don't fit in with either the Spanish (although most in texas are mexican and not spanish.) or the Korean (or even general asian) set.
There are times when I wish I were white because I would avoid some hardships I've had to face, but most of the time I love my dual heritage.
My korean side gives me such wonderful food, and it molded how i meet older people, how i defer respect, and some of my moral principles of familial honor and the like.
My spanish side gave me my religion (catholic) and my romantic side, and some honor as well (my great-grandfather was a Count in spain, Now it is my grandfather, my father is the Vizconde, and I am a Baron. No, that doesn't mean anything in the US. No, i am not rich.)
People sometimes get annoyed as i seem to switch ethnicities when it suits me.
But i love my multicultural nature.

Wash: Yeah, but psychic? That sounds like science fiction.
Zoë: You live on a spaceship, dear.
Wash: So?

ASARIAN

Friday, February 10, 2006 7:28 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by ChrisMoorhead:

"While we have an open policy concerning messages, please be civil when responding to others."

That's what it says right above the form to post a new message or response. I'm more than happy to take advantage of their offer, and the way I see things, I've done more to earn my rights to free speech than most people anyways.

People are too uptight about this stuff, and if they're going to let my ignorant little comments and jokes about it ruin their day, then that's their problem, not mine. Constitution gives rights to people to do anything that does not put someone else’s life, liberty or property in immediate physical danger. Any laws beyond this are superfluous.

Yeah, you guys are real brave, two by two, ganging up on a timid person like that. :( Breaks the heart. And then come back for seconds, even fiercer, just because she wanted to fade away, quietly. :( What does that make you? Big Damn Heroes!

Newsflash: just because you have the right to be mean, don't mean you have to be! You also have the right to remain silent, btw; something to consider. If you can't do something smart, do something right!

Ugh!

--
"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

BITTERBIERCE

Friday, February 10, 2006 7:56 AM

I'm lost. Who is ganging up on whom? I don't understand your comment or that bizzare tangent at the end of Moorhead's, either. Did I jump into something ongoing, or....

And if this turns into some kind of confrontation about race, why I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to pull myself up ramrod straight to my full 6'3" height, look you all in dead the eye, and run away like a little girl.

"Generalizations, indeed, all have their limits - even this one. Apply them often enough, and you will come inevitably upon some disconcerting exception.... But because philosophy is long and life is short we must assume, even when we can't entirely believe, that [things] fall into groups and classes, else we could never hope to study them at all" -HL Mencken

ASARIAN

Friday, February 10, 2006 8:32 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by BitterBierce:

I'm lost. Who is ganging up on whom? I don't understand your comment or that bizzare tangent at the end of Moorhead's, either. Did I jump into something ongoing, or....

Here's how I figure this. A timid person comes in here, asking a timid question, in a timid fashion. Then she gets a brutal reply, causing her to withdraw, equally timidly. And then she gets beat up for that, for feeling hurt and quietly walking away, along with a whole speech why it is her own damn fault for feeling hurt, and why people have the constitutional right to be as mean as they damn well please.

And that just ain't right. And it certainly doesn't make him a hero. Not in my book, at least.

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"Mei-mei, everything I have is right here." -- Simon Tam

CHRISMOORHEAD

Friday, February 10, 2006 7:49 PM

I honestly don't see where it turned into a ganging up on anyone, either, but it does lend support to me "tangent". If the timid person let that snide little quip of mine completely ruin their ability to speak further on the issue, then 1) it wasn't my intention and 2) that's still on them. I'm not saying they're a bad person for it, or anything else degrading about them in particular, I'm simply absolving myself of blame for the matter. Words should not be held in the same light as actions.

As for the "tangent" in question, I suppose it was long winded of me, but it's almost like I had a pre-cognition that someone would come to conflict with it, and felt the need to explain before it actually happened. What do you know, I was right.

In any case, I was ready to let this die after both my first and second comments, but both times people responded to me. Of course I'm more than happy to continue given the right motivation, but I don't really think it's going to get us anywhere. I'll still be a racist, misogynist, misanthrope at the end.

"Deep in the battlefield covered in blood
Lies an Airborne Ranger dying in the mud
He fought for his country and he died like a man
Though some people back home just wouldn't understand"

RIVER6213

Friday, February 10, 2006 11:57 PM

I wasnt timid when I started this thread, I just realized later on when I came back to it and read one or two responses to it, that in hindsight, it was a stupid topic.

River

GUTTERBALL

Saturday, February 11, 2006 8:30 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by BitterBierce:
And if this turns into some kind of confrontation about race, why I'll tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to pull myself up ramrod straight to my full 6'3" height, look you all in dead the eye, and run away like a little girl.

*cracks up* That's it, BB. Inject some humor into an entirely too serious vein. Nicely done.

Meh, I'm new here, so I won't throw in a monkey wrench. I just wanted to point out that the US may very well be a free country, but this board seems to serve much more than We the People. And I don't see that any of the responses were rude or hurtful until they were taken in, perhaps, a way they weren't intended.

That said, I agree that it's everyone's right to be an a$$hole or a hero, so more power to everyone! Woot! Be yourselves!

What fun would the world be if everyone was nice? I believe we saw the results of that on Miranda, and it weren't purty. In fact, it was a bit corpsified and gross.

Aim to misbehave, folks. If nothing else, it makes things mighty interesting.

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CANTONMUDDER

Saturday, February 11, 2006 11:05 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by GutterBall:
Quote:
Originally posted by BitterBierce:
What fun would the world be if everyone was nice?

I would settle for everyone being nice, but that's just me I guess.

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