In response to the more negative comments on my piece:
The Myth of Hipster Racism on Street Carnage:
To the people who want to tell me I'm a bad evil racist, why don't you care what Marcus thinks on the matter? He tells you he finds it funny and all you can do is call him a "sellout"?
You negate his feelings because they don't jive (racist?) with your own? You deny him unique feelings, his own personality, but I'm the racist one? Okay then. How totally compassionate and not racist of you. I'm sorry he didn't live up to your stereotype. Sometimes those spics get uppity and don't behave the way you'd like.
Here's a couple of the nice things the kind, not-racist people wrote about me in the comments on Street Carnage:
"I hope I never meet you";
"I hope everyone who jokes about calling their friends racial slurs gets cancer";
"Congratulations on having a Spanish boyfriend. How exotic!"; and,
"I'm gonna assume this fat cunt's as dense as she is fat."
Yet, you claim you are worried about hurting other people's feelings.
I'm sorry, but I don't buy that you actually care that much about racism. You care more about your ego and the pretense of being a good person. You care about the APPEARANCE of being good, and Lindy's article (which, yes, goddamnit, was funny and well-written) was SAFE. It was the easy way out. No one is going to send you hate mail and yell at you for taking the stance that racism is bad.
Personally, I thought it would be a little more interesting to try to see some grey area in that. I thought that was a worthy idea.
And this is what bothers me the most about this idiotic "racism" witch hunt. People claim they are so concerned about not hurting anyone, then they turn around and call me all kinds of shitty names. They can't wait to misunderstand what I wrote, twist it, and put their own words over it. Guess what, liberal hipsters? I have feelings, too. Just like black people. In fact, why don't you just pretend I'm a black person? Then you can be nice to me, too.
I'm going to make one thing clear, because I thought this was glaringly obvious, but I guess I need to spell it out:
If you are making racist jokes to your friend, and they don't find it funny, you should FUCKING STOP MAKING THAT JOKE. Because you're an asshole and a bad friend.
My only — ONLY — point was that racism is defined by intent. As it should be. If I don't mean something to be racist, then it isn't. And if I say something to my friend that hurts their feelings and they say "Hey, that hurt my feelings" guess what I say? I say, "Hey, I'm sorry, I won't say that again."
What do you think I do? Just run around in the streets yelling nigger and demanding that people find it funny?
I wrote a book about growing up as a Jehovah's Witness. Do you think I haven't had people accuse me of being a horrible, evil person before? The difference is, they called me a sinner and you call me a racist. Both of them are blanket terms meant to slander a person, take away their power, and insinuate that nothing they think or feel is valid.
You can misunderstand this article all you want. I am aware that you have completely misinterpreted it. I will not be guilted into a false admittance of racism by angry assholes. Because you are wrong about me, so fuck off.
I should also note that I said nothing about Lindy as a person, I said nothing about the quality of her writing or her humor, I made no comment about her weight. Other people made this personal, which makes me think that not only did you not read my article, you didn't even read HERS.
Apparently, you all have some issues you need to work out. But they're not present in my article. In my world, being cruel and obnoxious and self-righteous is far worse than being ironically racist. But I guess you have different moral standards.
p.s. Are you aware, non-racists, that Marcus is the one who started us joking in this manner? I make ironic racist jokes because he did it first. I think that bears mention.
