re: #83 Kryptik

The casual racism that soaks up everything even in ‘non-political’ internet culture especially has me despondent. Railing against ‘SJWs’, support for Trump, anti-immigration BS, literal Nazi stuff that people try and pass off as ironic and mocking but all too often simply glorifies them without any actual satirical substance to it, the amount of ACTUAL, non-ironic bullshit along this same line, common usage of slurs and fallbacks of ‘free speech’ and ‘safe spaces’ when people actually call them out on this…

It feels like it soaks up everything, and then people turn about and scream about how ‘liberal’ all this bullshit is, just like the usual screaming bullshit about ‘liberal media’, all the while the pendulum for any kind of progress is forcibly swung back the other way so hate constantly and consistently prevails.

I see more bitching about college students who have the nerve to be upset about bigotry than actual anger at the actual bigots. I was having a conversation with a cousin the other day, she’s a bit older than me (Gen Xer versus my mlleninal) but we both agreed that a lot racism seems like it’s gotten worse than when she and I were younger. In some ways, I like where we’ve headed as a country but there’s a lot of ugliness still.