Throwing out a Jig, Spinner, and Spoon.

Welcome to modern society, where certain narratives get shadow-banned.

Or just outright banned when that fails.

You're white. You're a man. You're straight. You're bad.

2+2=0. Quick maffs.

You have no idea how happy I would be if these people listed off a bunch of ACTUAL REASONS why I'm a horrible person.

Remember that time you ripped up a love letter a girl wrote you RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER?

Remember that time you lied about x, y, or z?

Remember that time you cheated to pass a class?

Nah. Just make shit up. It's easier.

What grinds my gears though is their hubris and hypocrisy. Mirrors are still around right? Do people still look at their reflection? Jesus.

Nothing is safe from my ability to be a slacker.

"No one I know"

Well that says it all right there, doesn't it?

Fellow peers, either in conversations I've overheard, or outspoken by some colleagues at the university newspaper I work for, or pronounced at meetings for on-campus political activist groups, say these things from on high. They utter this weird hate (in many cases self-hatred) so nonchalantly, as if it were so apparent as the sun rising and the tide coming in and out. Sometimes it comes straight from the mouths of "teachers", people who we were supposed to trust to not spread such sinister bullshit.

I routinely hear the dogma being preached as women sit among themselves in public spaces. Primarily when I'm eating, as it happens. It's admittedly hard to tell what is some person just bitching and having a bad day, versus somebody who is in-over-their-head in this racist, sexist bullshit they've somehow been sold. Of course, I'll never forget the many times I've had to sit there in the midst of women saying some of the most bizarre things about men, fully aware that I am a member of their party. Talk about being a captive audience.

Inb4 "hur hur that's what wahmen dealt with". Who cares? There's a reason we don't let revenge and idiocy run our court system. There's no need to let it run society, either.

It's disturbing, just like sitting in on people saying racist things about blacks or whatever other group you want, and meaning every word of it. Except what's more disturbing is the widespread prevalence of it. Maybe I'm biased because of the environments I frequent. These aren't baby boomer ideas, so if you frequent baby boomer places with baby boomer crowds, how can you be shocked that you don't experience this?

There are bad guys in power. Their race really doesn't matter. Not sure how that came to be such a shocking revelation. Has nobody picked up a history book? Blacks selling blacks into slavery? Rape of Nanjing? Rape, war, cannibalism between Native American tribes, African tribes? The Holocaust? 9/11? The Gaza Strip? Constant oppression and murder and terror in the middle east between religious fanatics? Who's keeping score and how? What a stupid fucking hobby, that.

Unless you want the endless cycle of racism to continue, of course. If that's one's goal, of non-stop an eye for an eye until the end of time, then by all means DO NOT whatsoever dare to be colorblind, much less race blind. Don't bother breaking the cycle. Just scapegoat whites and men and wait until it comes back around, you monkeys.

Be blind to history and human nature instead. Oh, and look away from any reflective surfaces. Those have a tendency to shatter the illusion.

It's appalling to watch the exact same, and I mean exact same, logic that has been used to persecute Jews, enslave blacks, force the Chinese to build railroads, throw the Japanese into internment camps, suddenly be completely acceptable and widely encouraged by government media and schools. The same logic that demonizes the poor, scapegoats the rich, divides and conquers individual human beings into straw-man monoliths. Same method of thinking. There's really no excuse except for ignorance.

I have better things to do than idly sit by while we keep black people down with a victim-complex and tell white people to lash themselves for things that their grandparents didn't even do.

This ideology has too deep of a foothold in politics. It has resulted in absolute fools being elected into office. "The Squad" as they call themselves. Voted in on skin color and gender. Just like the first woman president will be; voted in on basis of gender rather than merit and policy, the greatest irony of all. The greatest false-triumph.

So the continual bashing of men, whites, straights, will become more common-place, acceptable, and will earn people more social points. Some people will get with the program while we fill Congress with blacks, Muslims, women, anybody who isn't "bad".

And the narrative of dividing people by race and gender will succeed and become deeply ingrained in people's psyche until it's unquestionable. That's what I worry about, since I see it happening all around me, propagated by universities such as the one that I am currently attending.

Here on this forum I got in trouble for calling out something as racist. It was some unverifiable word-vomit about white-males in politics (it was such a loaded statement that it looked like a drum-magazine on a thompson). It was about as honest a statement as saying "of course the criminal was a black man" or "of course the asian is the valedictorian". Yet stereotyping and discriminating against whites and males wasn't even questioned; if this person had made such a loaded statement against practically any other group, mods would have been all over that like maggots on a rotting corpse.

All it takes is for moderators and staff (or people in positions of power in the real world) to make that hypocrisy systematic. To basically affirm, "Yes, this is an appropriate way to see and act in the world. We openly criticize people for being white, for being male, but we do not do that with any other groups."

Growing up, I didn't care what race or gender the weather person was. The news-anchor. My doctor. The author. The super-hero. The main character. I certainly *wondered* what made people different, why we all looked so different from one another, but I didn't stand there like a Nazi in the railyard telling you to go left if you're a minority, right if you're a majority.

But now, thanks to liberals, I have to care because of what they have done. Because instead of race or gender being of happenstance or of no consequence, it's always got to be some agenda. A female author every time, without question, must be seen as some great concentrated effort to overcome an invisible fiction known as "the patriarchy"; a woman making less than a man *must* automatically, unquestionably be a result of sexism. Every black person shot or arrested by a cop must be a victim of racism. It is assumed by "plight of the black person" that every black person's life experience is exactly the same; likewise, did you know all females are going to be called a mean word by the time they're some arbitrary age (some say 10, some say 13, others say 16), but apparently nobody else on the planet experiences this?

An acting cast needs to check every box "because because". There's got to be an oppressor and the woe-is-me oppressed. Everything has to be black and white, excuse the pun. Show black couples together, show white couples divorced. Make men look like idiots, "empower" women. Caricature the rich as evil, caricature the poor as innocent victims. Belittle Christians, praise Muslims.

It's hard to be of average intelligence and not want one's head to explode from the absurdity of it all.

Is everybody/everything like this? Obviously not. Are even most people like this? For now, no. But as it seems to become increasingly common, it becomes increasingly frustrating when people stick their heads in the sand and say that this isn't a growing problem. The racism and sexism being propagated by the media and public schools, and turning young adults into activist-pawns for an assortment of ideological crusades (gun control, feminism, Black Lives Matter, etc.) is commonplace.

Don't say I'm being uncharitable. If they want me to be more charitable, they can start by being transparent, no longer lying by omission, and can take an approach that is designed to unify rather than divide. They're doing that to themselves; don't shoot the messenger for pointing it out.

Okay. Your jig, spinner and spoon just landed a fairly large, toothy shark. Don't let the owl disguise fool you.

It's not really a good plan to goad the moderators here on the forum. We're doing our best to keep the forum on an even keel, which means keeping 'debate' within bounds—as we have repeatedly explained. And you may want to remember, from time to time, that this is a writers' forum, not a debating society or the Girners Anonymous Group (GAG.)

If you think we're being unfair, and hypocritical in the way we do our job, etc ...don't let the door hit you where the Lord split you, as they say back 'home.' Nobody is keeping any of you here in this awful place against your will. You are free to go—before you are pushed.

This is an official warning. Cut the sly, provocative crap now, or bans will follow.

Hey, no worries, wasn't intended as a slight. I actually came back to edit my original comment to make it more balanced (since my intent was to call attention to an example, not make a judgment about the forum or the people which would have been completely beside the point) but too late.

I am announcing here that I have made some edits to my initial statement NOT to try and be sneaky, but to more closely convey what my actual intention was.

Nobody gives a shit what I think about the forum because I don't have any power, so it's not like I'd bother with that one way or the other.

But for what it's worth, in spite of that incident (in which I was still in the wrong), I rather enjoy it here. Thank you for the warning!

*grabs Magus from behind and puts a Nerf gun to his head*

NOBODY MOVE.