Ravings of a Cheerfully Angry Ranter- Reverse Discrimination

 David Hollingsworth is a friend of mine and a fellow member of the Cabbage Stack Kids. When he is not busy trying to save the world you can find him on his blog Flying Knees, Politricks, Cheerful Existentialism. Here is his first guest spot on my blog which I am going to title Ravings of a Cheerfully Angry Ranter. Enjoy!

Hello, readers of Ravings Of An Angry Ranter.  It is I, Punchline, the one responsible for Flying Knees, Politricks, Cheerful Existentialism.  You may be wondering why I would be doing a guest spot on this blog when neither of our blogs have a particular subject matter, and therefore there isn’t any particular subject that warrants me writing a guest spot.  The answer is that my blog has a more comedic and laid back style.  This blog is for angry ranting, and that is what I am here to do.

This post is dedicated to everyone who cries about “reverse discrimination” when called out on their racist, sexist, homophobic, or any other type of discriminatory bullshit.  This will not be like my last blog about “nice” guys, where my tone is more playful and constructive.  The tone of this one will be more along the lines of “fuck” and “you.”  And that’s why we are here on Nick’s blog.

More Fuck Less You

So, first and foremost, if you think when someone calls you out on your bullshit is “discrimination against the discriminator, and therefore equally bad,” a big, hearty “fuck you” is in order.  You are so inadequate at living that you feel the need to bring down the rights of others, and you are so inadequate at rational thought you think someone calling you out is them “oppressing” you.  Anthropologists will someday study you as irrefutable proof that we came from lesser beings.  And, speaking of anthropology, it takes an Australopithecus with a severe concussion to talk to you on your level, which is why I am not wasting my time.

You have the right to believe its okay to take away the rights of others, and should definitely have the right to express this- in fact, I wholeheartedly support this right because it lets me know whom I could still talk to if I ever got a lobotomy, was given a book by Glenn Beck, and wanted to find someone I could connect with.  But I’m supposed to “respect” this backwards ass opinion?  I’m supposed to smile and nod about the fact you want to deny the rights of people who just want equality and if I deconstruct what you say, I’m being rude?!

Clearly a Reasoned Argument

No.  To quote one of the wisest minds of our time, “eat a sack of baby dicks.”  If I explain to you why your racist bullshit is racist bullshit, why your sexist bullshit is sexist, etc, that is also my right to free speech.  Free speech means no legal consequences for your actions and your well being not being jeopardized by what you say.  It doesn’t mean you can say what you want without any sort of consequence or response from anyone.  In fact, wanting that to happen is infringing on their rights to free speech!

Continuing that train of thought, if other non-shitty human beings decide that, “hey, maybe we shouldn’t associate with someone who believes in this bullshit,” that’s not even close to the same thing as what you want to do to the people you hate for no valid reason.  This is for two crucial reasons.

The first is that by choosing to not associate with you, they are actually not taking away your rights at all!  You still have all the rights and privilege you had in the beginning.  None of that is taken, not even a little bit.  Nowhere in the law books does it say “you have the right to multiple state mandated friends no matter how shitty your outlook as a person is.”  You can still go outside without being arrested for what you said.

The second reason is because being a shithead is not an integral part of who you are.  Your skin color, whether or not you have a Y chromosome, who you are attracted to, etc, are integral parts of who you are that you can’t easily change and shouldn’t need to because there is nothing wrong with these things.  You being a bigoted dipshit, on the other hand, is very changeable.  You could decide not to be one this very instant!

Or wait till your secret comes out

As human beings we have some shitty tendencies hard wired into us, and making certain groups of people “others” is definitely one of those.  But we also have self-awareness, the ability to understand and evaluate ourselves.  We have the ability to be conscious of our beliefs and actions.  Notice how when we want to punch someone in the face, we have the ability to slow ourselves down and say “no, I want to, but this is a bad idea” and not punch them in the face?  You have the same ability to do that with your bigotry right now, tomorrow, or at literally any other point in your entire life!

So yes, your claims of “reverse discrimination” are utter bullshit.  Much like your entire world view.   Now go back to the comment section on Youtube videos and Yahoo! News articles.

Clearly the last beacon of freedom

 I would like to thank David Hollingsworth for his always fun opinion, and we hope he comes back for more rants in the future.