(August 22, 2012 at 10:52 pm)cato123 Wrote: Are you suggesting that I hold my tongue on the off chance that I might offend someone's geographically based sensibilities? You admitted that Texas is ass backward. Your words, not mine. Yet, you still have the gumption to chastise me for criticising the homeland.
Nope, I wouldn't dare make such a suggestion. I was simply pointing out that generalizing that we would be better off without the entire state, including the families of people who might be from there was callous and rude. But I would never suggest that someone hold their tongue on the off chance that they might offend someone. That would require me to believe anyone left in this world might have the slightest modicum of respect for people. Fuck! I keep leaving and coming back because this place is so full of negative fucking people, am I just a glutton for fucking punishment or something?
Quote:I lived in Texas for three years (2001-2004). I loved it, up until the point that I heard a second generation American call someone that looked just like him a wetback, as if to say; "We got here first and enjoy the spoils. You're too late to the party so take your dirty, hungry indian looking ass back across the Rio Grande." In Texas, it's ok to 'look' Mexican, but you must prove that you weren't born there. There's a huge difference in Texas between a Mexican and a Mexican-national.
This I agree with you on, but again it is a generalization. I am from Texas, was raised by the Cuban side of my family. Cuban's generally do not have a positive view of Mexicans, no real clue why, but I was still raised by my mother to have respect for others, not to believe they were worth less than I because they were different. Given that my white father was rampantly racist and homophobic before I grew up to be a gay man who is engaged to a black me, I had plenty of that crap spewed around me and still grew up to accept people for who and what they are, not who and what I want them to be. So again, generalizing is not correct, it leads you to look like an ignorant bigot and can be hurtful to the feelings of others around you. But you probably couldn't give two shits less could ya now, deary?
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(July 21, 2012 at 12:31 am)cato123 Wrote:(July 21, 2012 at 12:22 am)C.W. Sims Wrote: I for one, as a homo, must say that if he was a homo, then he had to have looked fabulous on that cross. Nearly naked, body all ripped, oh wait.... yeah, never mind. I'm gonna just stop right there before I offend anyone.
I have a certain distaste for the emoticons, and particularly despise the laughing/rolling dude when used in response to one's own statement, but.....
Holy fuck that was funny! "Nearly naked, body all ripped,....". Oh, fuck me. I'm still laughing but can no longer piss myself since I've emptied the tank.
