backlog of political rhetoric by me

I had mixed in my blog my love of media and my political points of view before spliting them. Here are the all the blog posts I felt that were misplaced on my other blog. the cleaned up version of Kaneda Jones' Mediaverse can be found at http://kanedajones.blogspot.com/

Now that blog can be (mostly) politics free and this kinda stuff can live over here.

heres all the political stuff from over there:

two hypocritical sides of the same fucked coin.
Thursday, December 25, 2008 3:32 PM

the right wing promote their ideals with a percieved push for individual freedoms,while they are actually quite monolithic and demanding that you toe the party line.the left wing promote their ideals with a percieved push for a collective concern for others,while they are actually quite full of individualists who argue and fight amongst themselves.

a prime example of using promotion to compensate for what is actually lacking. No need ever to promote what is readily visible to the public ;)

answers to stupidity 1st edition
Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:21 AM

I wish my mind kept a list of all the stupid things I see everyday but daaaang that would be a long list. I had more to say but so far I'll keep it to these two.

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case one: my own stupidity.
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Someone asked me recently why I made the assumption that they were a potential "runaway train" (my words to them) when it came to their behaviour with me in regards to a 'potential' friendship. I got this question after explaining that they seemed quite level headed which was a suprise to me after seeing them elsewhere on the intarwebs being quite the firebrand. I pointed out at the time that it was just because passion in one area made me assume passion in all areas.. turns out that with deeper thinking I realize there were other additive factors. I realize now that it was also the swiftness of replies in messages and the directness.

Here is the interesting thing all you who read this should consider though..

Does someone who can be prompt and explanitory deserve to be lumped in with the emotionaly unstable? I think Society at large has trained us to be delicate when it comes to interactions with other humans to the point where we all are supposed to hide our real intent, then hint at that intent vaguely, in fear that the direct aproach might offend. My best friend Ris has always been hated for being to direct (I myself love her for it) and it was a shame I did not think another person was acting in that way. Someone send you a few emails or IMs in one day? So what.. consider the fact that maybe they just want an answer. heh.

maybe I wont hear from them again, or maybe I am getting a taste of my own medicine - slow replies. *sigh* oh well, such is life.

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Case two: someone elses stupidity.
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Anne Coultre recently went on "the view" to promote her new book and Barbera Walters read a quote from it in distain. The quote was about black celebs (she had a list but I can't find the quote so no list for you feh). These black celebs, Obama included, had white mothers and black fathers.. had their black fathers run away from parenting and the white mothers raise them, and then still self identify as black. Anne had the idiocy to ask why identify with the race that left you? Why dont these individuals identify as white?

fuck is she dumb. I don't know if she is only dumb when its convenient or by her own nature.

Each had a dark enough complexion to get themselves lambasted in the media and society in general if the dared to call themselves "white". Society inforces this rule, just look at coverage of Tiger Woods.. I see white golf announcers call him black a billion times more than I see him talk about being black. Society also goes out of its way to ask where you decended from country-wise if you are white but fail to do so as often with people of any color.. assumptions get made. I cant believe the amount of people I know who can't tell the diffrence between korean, chinese, japanese, and the long list of small pacific islands.. (thai, singaporians, etc)

So to summarize, if you aren't the whitest white to other whites, you ain't called white by the so called civilized world. I mean, Anne, ask yourself if you ever saw a guy identifing as white who didnt look white to you.. prob not.

its called pragmatism. So why dont they identify as white? Cause you wouldn't let them if they tried.