in things I'm cranky about today
Oct. 29th, 2017 09:45 am In sportsball, that whole thing with Yu Darvish and the Astros player making the slant-eyed gesture at him after hitting a home run. Like that in and of itself was disturbing, but tbh even more disturbing was the discourse following. LIke, I cannot believe how many people saw absolutely no problem with this. I've said for a long time that a sort of passive racism against Asians in this country is not only acceptable but apparently encouraged. Astros fans actually gave the loser a standing O in last night's game and there were shots of fans doing the same gesture as if to what, tell us all that it's ok? I mean, just imagine if what he did was mouth the n-word on camera, like what would the reaction be to that? Probably not the same. And his apology was bullshit. He pretty much said he knew it was offensive but sorry if anyone was offended.
And then, if you didn't think it could get any dumber, oh it can, the people bringing up politics into it. People on the right being all, oh you're just a whiny liberal if you find that offensive. And people on the left going, well this is all due to Republicans being in power. Like srsly? Shut up and sit down. Number one, the Astros dude is not even from this country so Republicans being in power had nothing to do with his personal bigotry. Number two, don't act like this specific form of racism (nm all the other kinds) has been around and encouraged for a very long time so don't pretend like it just appeared.
Then for the other side, good to know that you're basically saying a human having respect for another human is something defined by left and right and you're essentially saying your side has none of it. Good to know that thinking someone shouldn't be mocked for their race is being a whiny liberal. Nm all the people who were mad about it and identifying as NOT liberals. Istg you can't discuss anything anymore without these politics-baiting nincompoops. Tired of it.
I'm also really fucking tired of ifandom loudly insisting that 4D guys in groups are gay. Like, let me know how that worked out for you with Hyunseung hey? Not only that but so you're basically saying that gay people are weird and being a weirdo or socially inept makes you gay. That's good to know, weird = gay ok. That reminds me of idiots in high school literally always whispering about so-called "weirdos" being gay. It's frankly pretty insulting to say that gay people are always weird and can't be the perfectly "normal" ones.
An with Sehun for example, it seems extra dumb bc did you all miss that bit where he was asked about appearing on 'We Got Married' with a guy and he said "why would you say something that doesn't even make sense?"
And then, if you didn't think it could get any dumber, oh it can, the people bringing up politics into it. People on the right being all, oh you're just a whiny liberal if you find that offensive. And people on the left going, well this is all due to Republicans being in power. Like srsly? Shut up and sit down. Number one, the Astros dude is not even from this country so Republicans being in power had nothing to do with his personal bigotry. Number two, don't act like this specific form of racism (nm all the other kinds) has been around and encouraged for a very long time so don't pretend like it just appeared.
Then for the other side, good to know that you're basically saying a human having respect for another human is something defined by left and right and you're essentially saying your side has none of it. Good to know that thinking someone shouldn't be mocked for their race is being a whiny liberal. Nm all the people who were mad about it and identifying as NOT liberals. Istg you can't discuss anything anymore without these politics-baiting nincompoops. Tired of it.
I'm also really fucking tired of ifandom loudly insisting that 4D guys in groups are gay. Like, let me know how that worked out for you with Hyunseung hey? Not only that but so you're basically saying that gay people are weird and being a weirdo or socially inept makes you gay. That's good to know, weird = gay ok. That reminds me of idiots in high school literally always whispering about so-called "weirdos" being gay. It's frankly pretty insulting to say that gay people are always weird and can't be the perfectly "normal" ones.
An with Sehun for example, it seems extra dumb bc did you all miss that bit where he was asked about appearing on 'We Got Married' with a guy and he said "why would you say something that doesn't even make sense?"