Number One in a series:
Crazy White Person: I hope that, one day, you'll get over your anger and move on with your life.Negro: I hope that one day, you'll see a decent proctologist who can remove whatever's shoved up your ass. Or, if you prefer, I can do exploratory surgery now, with my foot.
Or this falls under the category of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. I'm not sure which.
More, more!
Homer Simpson: "It's true. We're so lame!"
Kynn, I'm doing these from memory, and that's the only one that really still annoyed the hell out of.me months later. I've managed to rid my life of the sorts of people who spouted that sort of thing -- Gray was the last of them -- thought I'm not sure if that's from responding to the passive-aggressive with genuine aggressive, or by daring address them as equals.
Me being an ignorant nigger in need of their calm, patient, and incrediby fucking condescending guidance, after all.
Pretty standard format, if you wanted to make your own:
Fun for the whole family, it is.
Anger at injustice has been the driving force for quite a bit of positive change. If John Adams and Patrick Henry had taken that advice, we'd be a British Colony. OTOH, it's too bad that advice wasn't taken by Newt Gingrich and his Angry White Males in 1994...
Michael, problem is, the people doing that, at some level, really aren't aware that they're doing it. Which makes for fun conversations, yes, but if you listen, they'll actually list every personal flaw they possess. True, they do it in terms of listing yours, but that's just one of the simple translations necessary to make sense of their babbling.
A handy list of other translations follows:
Like any other game, once you know the cheat codes, it's actually pretty boring. . .
I get that on the sociological level instead of the personal one (I think it comes down to the pronouns one tends to use).
And even then it's all about projection. You might find the comments to this post amusing.
Oy. Further justification for my belief that anyone who uses an email address like "anonymous@anonymous.com" has nothing worthwhile to contribute.
Some folks'll never lose a toe, and then again, some folks'll. . .
And the personal is the political/sociological, mon ami.
"i hope that, one day, you'll get over your anger and move along, because i'm really scared you're going to hit me or something."
which would actually be kind of funny if they said it that honestly.
i'm as much into new age psychobabble as the next person, but that shit is just toxic. it's controlling/manipulating and condescending. in a group therapy session, especially one in any way influenced by fritz perls' method, the facilitator would jump in right away with: "hmm, CWP, i'm wondering right now what it is about N's expression of anger that is so threatening to you?"
thanks for reminding us about that exchange, your comeback is suitable for framing. in fact - you might want to consider a T-shirt version.
it seems you're from MN. there's widespread white guilt around here. especially the suburbs where they're afraid of black people. Do you get this feeling? "Sorry about the whole slavery thing, I'm not like that, see?" I think this is whats going through their head.
and jesus christ, would you relax, it gets in the way of your message. but just respond to this angry if you could please, oh and sarcasm is a plus. it never gets old.
-saltine
Bjorn, seems? Nay, t'isn't, I know not seems, unless of course, the seams are on your dress. Ain't from MN, I just tend to move there every once in a while.
And message? No, no message. Old men like me don't bother with messages. There is no message.
r@d@r, that was more l'esprit d'escalier than an actual response. I was slightly kinder back when that conversation took place. Nowadays, though. . . I never said I was no longer Veiny, Evil, Stupid and Horny, you know.
You know, there is a sister on the west coast that sells "Uppity-Negro" tshirts…
Without the dash, yep. Think she had UppityNegro.com back when I registered this domain instead. . .