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So I signed up of a Dicks Sporting Goods points card (the first time I had been in a Dick’s in over 10 years, after I had been treated badly by the local store and the corporate management). Gotta give ’em an email in order to validate the points account.

Was treated well on my return trip, and they (might ) have had a new customer….

But then I got 34 advertising emails in one week. 34. They have had my email for 8 days.

Seeya.

Y’know, I am getting pretty fuckin’ tired

Of this sort of thing.

Couple of points:

When a black man murders white people, for some reason it isn’t “racially motivated”, but when a white kid kills some black people, it must be racially motivated. Couldn’t just be crime, could it?

And because he once wore a cap that had a Confederate flag, we must scrub all the US from ever having anything honoring the dedication and honorable service of the confederate soldiers.

If every time a back man murdered a white person, can we strip some statue of MLK? Or (perhaps) remove Harriet Tubman from replacing a white guy on currency? If we find that the black kid committing a crime has an X hat, can we start changing the street names and other monuments to the Black civil rights movement?

Logic would say so…

And then there is this bullshit. (and I actually agree with his ENTIRE statement about when power and responsibility should shift. …)

ETA: For those assholes who won’t bother to learn the quote that I am referring to:

“I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people,” ” (this was in the early 70’s, BTW)


Now where, exactly was that racist? (see also Baltimore and Detroit for examples as to why he was correct…..)

The definition

Of a “Hate Crime” is getting so watered down that it is becoming meaningless.

Police called to college when one person states that “there are only 2 genders” ….investigate it as a hate crime.

These universities (and their staff) need to get a grip. There is racism. There are hate crimes committed, there is gender bias. There are many evils in the world, But panicking and pointing the finger for minor things, often only perceived by a person, waters down the definition these evils.

And makes the universities look foolish for even wasting time on such trivialities. THese folks need to realize that hyperbole isn’t reality. .

Then there is this: The graduation ceremony is called the “Lavender Graduation,” signifying “pink triange that gay men were forced to wear in concentration camps and the black triange designating lesbians as political prisoners in Nazi Germany,” according to HRC.

Out of problems:

Yeah, really.

Read:

     Many of our nation’s poor are fat, lazy and satisfied. They have flat screen TVs and cable,                  microwaves and Internet, and all the food they need. Even our homeless have cellphones. Because      we don’t have to wake every day to forage for food and hope some simple scrape won’t lead to an      infection that kills us, we’re afforded the luxury of feeling cheated by someone having more.

Or, we could ban phones….

I mean, a significant bunch of people think that banning guns for the actions of their owners (or the people that posses them, that is)

So, instead of making it easier for folks to know when NOT to cross the street, we should, using that logic, ban smarphones (and earbuds). Right?

Right?

Jesus, Western society has sunk to a terribly low level when, in order to prevent people from inadvertently killing themselves, we have to put traffic signals in the sidewalk so that they will see them? So that they don’t have to look up? (Really, because they DON’T look up).