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A video of the Google glasses thing, which somehow manages to look more cool than evil, although it plainly is evil.
The first part of a series on walking in America which I haven't read!
An incredibly offensive comment about Trayvon Martin and his parents. He's defending himself with the first amendment, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply to public officials. Does it? At any rate, what I don't understand is why racists think it's okay to be so public about it. Seriously, free speech doesn't mean other people aren't going to care.
And finally, a little piece on better flossing that's not as informative as it thinks
A video of the Google glasses thing, which somehow manages to look more cool than evil, although it plainly is evil.
The first part of a series on walking in America which I haven't read!
An incredibly offensive comment about Trayvon Martin and his parents. He's defending himself with the first amendment, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't apply to public officials. Does it? At any rate, what I don't understand is why racists think it's okay to be so public about it. Seriously, free speech doesn't mean other people aren't going to care.
And finally, a little piece on better flossing that's not as informative as it thinks
Re: I clicked through and I agree.
Date: 2012-04-18 01:09 am (UTC)Even if he had been a, uh, "ghetto thug" he didn't deserve to be shot just for that. Let him commit an actual crime first!
And honestly, as somebody else I read pointed out, everybody wears hoodies nowadays. Sure, criminals wear them to hide their faces from cameras, but only because, due to the fact that everybody wears them they're a heck of a lot less conspicuous than ski masks. (In the right context you can trust that everybody wearing ski masks is a rich person and probably white. What of it?)
Re: I clicked through and I agree.
Date: 2012-04-18 01:37 am (UTC)I must also take issue with "everybody" in your second statement. You mean, the unzipped-cardiganlike-hooded-sweatshirt-with-the-hood-thrown-back? Or the hood-pulled-up-in-warm-sunny-weather type?
The first type, yeah, you can see (roughly) a dozen out of a hundred people in Walmart wearing them. A lot less prevalent than jeans, but I admit I own one myself as of last winter. I have put the hood up when it was raining.
The second type? People will turn and look. I've seen ONE guy wearing his hood up (again, at Walmart: prime social-observation territory), and people were doing doubletakes. If his aim was to avoid notice, he was failing miserably.