can the modern american left genuinely claim to be anti-racist?

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Are you implying that I am going to have a breakdown?

My hour of need:

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 21:19 (eighteen years ago) link

No, Jon - I'm saying that life's full of vicissitudes, and there'll surely come a time when you're in a really hard emotional place - many such times, probably, though may you have as few of them as possible! But such times will come, when you're on a sort of out on the ledge, figuratively speaking, and you feel friendless and desperate even if you've got friends around you telling you they're on your side and so on. This sort of experience isn't confined to people who're "having breakdowns"; it's just part of being alive. What I am saying is that when you find yourself suffering in such a moment, as you surely will, I hope that you'll remember for just a second how you behaved here; and I hope that your imagination at that point lets you experience what it might feel like were someone to then repay you in kind.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 6 October 2005 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Dude, I've been there before. I got into hugely serious legal, financial and academic trouble in the middle of winter in Rochester NY.

Fuck off, you don't know who I am.

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:06 (eighteen years ago) link

One knows rather well enough by your actions - long after it becomes clear to pretty much everyone that we're dealing here with a person who's in crisis, you come with the long Chemtrails post. Next time you're in loads of financial trouble, make sure you find somebody to send you a fake but convincing statement of legal action by your bank or something. You will roffle all day, I'm sure.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Do you have a borderline personality?

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:23 (eighteen years ago) link

several!

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Irrespective of the rest of this shit, Goddamn it's good to have you back.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:27 (eighteen years ago) link

thanks Andrew!

Jon I hope you know I'm not like "Jon is permanently evil! fuck that guy!" but you crossed a line upthread, and deserve to be called out for it, and frankly I think you should apologize for it, but since you're now in "fuck you" land I'm guessing it's too late to hope for that

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I don't think my actions make a difference, mr moral authority!

― Jonothong Williamsmang (ex machina), Thursday, 6 October 2005 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link

for what it's worth i feel pretty bad about being rough upthread. i've seen so much put-on instability in these parts that the real deal took a while to seem alarming.

― geoff (gcannon), Friday, 7 October 2005 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

to be honest nutrament i think jon's posts were the least of it & you are making a convenient scapegoat out of him

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 October 2005 14:35 (eighteen years ago) link

i read this morning according to washington post bush's current approval rating with black voters is TWO PERCENT!?!

― _, Friday, 14 October 2005 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

http://stevegilliard.blogspot.com/2005/10/simple-sambo-wants-to-move-to-big.html

― _, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Wow, that's bad. Does it make a difference that Steve Gilliard's black? I'd say it makes a little difference, but not enough for it to not be offensive.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 26 October 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah this aint a 'can he say nigga' issue, shit is genuinely racist & hateful

― _, Wednesday, 26 October 2005 19:05 (eighteen years ago) link

three years pass...

obamas record so far is not very progressive or interesting. he gives good speeches- yeah so does trent lott!
― _, Tuesday, October 4, 2005 1:15 PM (3 years ago)

lol ethan

― velko, Sunday, 2 November 2008 05:38 (fifteen years ago) link

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