RE: All white people are racists...or "white fragility" ??
September 18, 2015 at 6:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2015 at 6:23 pm by TheRocketSurgeon.)
(September 18, 2015 at 6:08 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(September 18, 2015 at 4:44 pm)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Normally, I would inquire into your authored books for the purpose of reading, but I just spent 9 years of my life doing little but reading, so I'm kind of on a book vacation for at least the next several months.
As long as you're not on a cerebral vacation, s'all one to me.
Really, it's more that I'm trying to rebuild my life, and repair the psychological and emotional damage that was done by the cruelty of the Powers that Be as they used every dirty trick in their arsenal to try to "break" me into Confessing and then naming names (snitching, colloquially), which I refused to do... because 1) the charges were false, and 2) there were therefore no names to give them.
Addendum to translate: I come to AF as a way of socially interacting and employing my brain, without the stress of trying to interact (outside of my job) with people, which still tends to stress me out. Ironically, I find the company of African Americans easier to tolerate because they tend to be more aware of the issues faced by those who've been incarcerated, and when I have to explain about how I spent the last decade of my life, they just nod and tell me about their cousin/father/brother/bestie/self who spent a big chunk of time in the joint as well... whereas white people typically have on the blinders we've been discussing, so they tend to either press me for details I don't want to talk/think about or they get weird about it, often blown away (because I'm such a nice guy and don't "look/sound/act like a criminal", whatever that means) to the point they start revealing their ignorance and prejudice with "How could that have happened to YOU?" questions.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
