Antithetical
Years ago I had this idea and bought a URL. It was WAY before the current administration. I included a couple of friends, but we all 3 had real jobs and this idea or actually making anything of it was overwhelming. I’m retired now, maybe I should bring it back, thehouseofhypocrisy.com.
I have a few friends on Facebook. There are many I have known since Kindergarten. There were about 520 in my HS graduating class. That’s about how many “friends” I have on FB. Of course that’s not my class, it’s a mix of the last 60 + years. A handful or so I have known since kindergarten. So 60 years.
One of the kindergarten “friends” unfriended and blocked me about a year ago. Why did she block me? She was absolutely incensed about the female boxer at the Olympics that people were accusing of being trans and posted something a bit unhinged about it. The boxer who it had been reported, while not verified, that she was born with a unique genetic code due to Swyer Syndrome. Resulting in having XY chromosomes.
While I don’t know exactly what my reply was, since she blocked me. I reciprocated the action. I can’t see her, she can’t see me. Anyway, I said something like, what about someone on the other side of the planet, just trying to live their best life has any impact on you? And I included a link about the syndrome. A couple of days later when I went back to check to see how much trouble I was in, I found out.
A few weeks before that I had shared a video from Mother Jones of a woman talking an out DEI. The video had clips of Fox new calling Kamala, bi-racial werewolf, hood ornament, DEI Hire. The woman doing the video, did call those on Fax assholes, but. I’m not sure she actually listened to it. I had the impression, like some, she already knew everything and didn’t need to listen to anyone that wasn’t going to aligns with her fears, I mean ideologies or beliefs.
She replied to the post, “Not a racist and not a Kamala supporter. What happened to the notion of not calling people names and being nice to one another?” Just asking…”
Hypocrisy
What I wanted to say;
1 – yes you are a racist, so am I – I’m just working hard to be an anti-racist
2 – I know you’re not a Kamala fan because when she was running before she became the VP you were quick to inform me on a FB post that she had “slept” her way into a job 20 years ago. Got it. Jesus.
3 – what I did not say, but wanted to was, ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME? You and YOUR “leader” call people names all the time. And nice? That when out when the insecure, weak, racist, misogynistic, rapist descended that elevator and announced his run to destroy America.
What I said. There was no response to my reply.
Good question. I didn’t care for the name calling here either, bi-racial werewolf, hood ornament, DEI Hire, asshole. Maybe we can ask those in this video?
Our definition of things like mean vary for some reason. Like credibility, reliable, accountability. experience, justice, racism, judgement, morality, virtue, decency, respect, honor.
Even a word some might think insignificant can be received as disparaging and have a negative impact. They serve no purpose and say more about who delivers it than who receives it.
It’s not just name calling, it’s inference to someone’s being, character or well being. Instead of talking substance we go for the easy shot, the hit and run that often gets a laugh. And at what cost?
After living through my parents decline and dementia last year, when someone made some reference to the decline of either candidate, I thought, they must not have or had a loved one with dementia so does that make it okay to make fun, share a meme or a comment about them?
I think I posted here a very long time ago a similar question, asking had we all forgotten that old saying, if you can’t say something nice. And don’t we still teach kids that today? Cause at the time, I was seeing a lot of adults name calling.
The question for me here, as I heard someone say or ask yesterday. And why I shared this video is about DEI. Would we call a white employee a white supremacy hire? An employee with a disability, a disability hire? No.
We collectively have a lot of work to do in our anti-racist efforts. Because if we are white, we have a level of privilege whether we want to admit it or not. We will have racist ideas, thoughts and perceptions. Striving to be anti-racist is work, some are doing better than a few of the white men and Jeanine in this video.
Several weeks later I saw a reply on someone else’s FB post. Because she had blocked me I could’t see what she had posted but someone replied and I could see her name. The reply was, “they don’t hate you, they despise the lying old man you all worship.”. I had also see her post somewhere that because she had a Journalism degree, she retired from Air Traffic Control, she could tell the difference between real and fake news. Now consider this, if she does have a degree in Journalism that was awarded in 1983. I wanted to ask, what kinds of tools or things was she taught between 1979 and 1983 that now today, arm her with the proper “fake news” detector? Must have advanced her education through YouTube or stayed the night at a Holiday Inn Express.
I keep writing about this, don’t post them all. So many times a day, out of his mouth is a reminder. The double standard. The hypocrisy. The absolute delusion of what he is doing and who he is doing it to and those people still supporting him.
Today while at The Museum of the Bible. Now, like everything else an opposite is made. Mean is nice, nice is mean. And they say we (I am) so hateful.
Antithetical….
