Zombie_Fish said:
Chances are no kid has ever edited their Facebook privacy settings so quickly before.
Even then, you gotta watch your ass. My girlfriend's brother got in trouble because someone took screen shots of his Nazi moments. And I mean Nazi. Not that I'm saying it was wrong, because it wasn't. It's just....you're not safe even when you're speaking with friends.
The Choke said:
Some REALLY regressive shit, which is probably why some of my classmates were saying some awful things about homosexuals over the phone. But those parents in particular were an education for me: A white queer girl who had parents who had steadfastedly made the leap from lower-income to middle-class, I had this idea that racism, sexism, and homophobia were "old" things, and that these days most everyone was cool with all that, because my parents and their friends were cool with all that. I was shocked to discover this kind of thought in our liberal, West Coast town. I wouldn't understand for a few more years that rape culture, racism, violence, homophobia, and the rest of those awful things were subtle enough to influence even the most liberal of communities.
I get where you're coming from, sadly. I live in Vermont, a super-hippie state where people sort of get the idea that these things aren't really an issue. Hell, I live between two of the largest per capita gay communities in the US. Bu part of the dirty little secret is that a lot of it simply didn't come up. When Vermont legalised same sex civil unions, you could suddenly see the antis. And they were everywhere. There was this whole "Take Back Vermont" campaign which was ostensibly about taxes but didn't really get started until same sex marriage and a lot of people didn't even bother to hide it. It's sort of paralleled to a certain event in gaming right now. I've been assaulted, including sexually, for "acting like a fag," and lost a friend because I sort of unintentionally came out as trans. Ironically, a friend who was a huge activist in the LGBT community. And it isn't just us, either. South of the border in Massachusetts, some of my friends went to school with a kid who got "HOMO" carved in his back in four inch letters for liking Queen.
And since you bring up things like race, that didn't seem like an issue until some black people actually started living here. We remain one of the whitest states in the US, so racism was always sort of this theoretical thing from the past that was ended in the 60s or 70s. But then a black guy moved into my dad's apartment building, and people started harassing him. My dad woke up to a "lynched" dummy outside his window once, because besides being racist they were apparently bad with directions. We had a similar incident at one of the schools here, and a debate over whether it was appropriate to fly the confederate flag at another. And hoooo my GOD, have I seen a bunch of racist crap since Obama got elected. And then there's anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim sentiments. I grew up with a Jewish kid and never knew that his family apparently got harassed for being Jewish. Then again, when I was younger, I didn't even quite understand what "Jewish" meant.
My captcha is reminding me that this is Sparta.
Google maps says this is R'Lyeh. I think Capthca is off.
insaninater said:
So you advocate violence against children? Real arbiter of morality you are.
You know, it's bad enough that you made up crap about my supposed support for Ubisoft, a faceless corporation, but I'd appreciate it if you not turn your lies towards a fictitious advocacy of child abuse.