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conuly
STOP THAT RIGHT NOW.
I don't see any colorbars for the genocide in Sudan. I don't see any off-topic crying posts about the massacre of the Hmong that's going on right now. I see a few posts, occasionally, about American deaths in Iraq - but none about the civilian deaths there, which greatly exceed our own. I can only conclude that nobody cares when people die unless they (the dead people) are white.
I didn't even point this out. All I said was that images don't help anybody, and that a better way to show your support would be to... well, I don't know, but that's not it.
Apparently, that makes me "snippy". Oh, deary, you haven't seen snippy. Or snide, or sardonic, or anything like that. All you saw was sensible.
Stupid spammers.
Yeah, it's okay to interrupt people to say something like "here's how you find out if somebody you love is dead or alive". I'd be heartless to say otherwise. But to post a fucking image that took you five seconds to whip up in PhotoShop, just so that you can go about your day pretending that you're a thoughtful and caring individual? Fuck off.
You want to show how much you care? You want to prove that you honestly believe that senseless deaths are "everybody's tragedy"? Go out and help somebody. You don't even have to leave the fucking country, just donate some damn blood and save a life.
Or you can email everyone and their dog with an image. Yeah, right. Go pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
(Of course, I'm not much better, my idea of helping is apparently to rant on my journal. But at least it's my journal.)
I don't see any colorbars for the genocide in Sudan. I don't see any off-topic crying posts about the massacre of the Hmong that's going on right now. I see a few posts, occasionally, about American deaths in Iraq - but none about the civilian deaths there, which greatly exceed our own. I can only conclude that nobody cares when people die unless they (the dead people) are white.
I didn't even point this out. All I said was that images don't help anybody, and that a better way to show your support would be to... well, I don't know, but that's not it.
Apparently, that makes me "snippy". Oh, deary, you haven't seen snippy. Or snide, or sardonic, or anything like that. All you saw was sensible.
Stupid spammers.
Yeah, it's okay to interrupt people to say something like "here's how you find out if somebody you love is dead or alive". I'd be heartless to say otherwise. But to post a fucking image that took you five seconds to whip up in PhotoShop, just so that you can go about your day pretending that you're a thoughtful and caring individual? Fuck off.
You want to show how much you care? You want to prove that you honestly believe that senseless deaths are "everybody's tragedy"? Go out and help somebody. You don't even have to leave the fucking country, just donate some damn blood and save a life.
Or you can email everyone and their dog with an image. Yeah, right. Go pat yourself on the back for a job well done.
(Of course, I'm not much better, my idea of helping is apparently to rant on my journal. But at least it's my journal.)
