That's not what I'm talking about at all.
That's when you needed to shout, "Stop the Asian hate!"
This seems to be part of a larger trend of people doing cryptic things with the general public expected to know/remember what they all mean. Besides the semicolon tattoo thing, I've recently seen someone share a video on social media where people making some sort of hand gesture are trying to convey they're victims of human trafficking or need help for whatever reason - I don't even remember any more. How many people are going to know that without being told, and how many people will remember in the spur of the moment if and when it happens?
Even when I spent a summer as a food server in a cafeteria many years ago, there were those people with a sense of entitlement that would have lunch there and treat myself and coworkers as if we were somehow beneath them in terms of status. I still recall one particular lady giving me her order in a tone that suggested, "I'm better than you because you're stuck behind that counter and I'm not."
should've called the cops on him and gotten him george floyded
Yep. That's why I'm not entirely sympathetic to the majority of people suffering economically or being humiliated by various recent events in the past years. Most of them are loudmouth, self-righteous, entitled normie assholes who, to use an overused quote, get what they fucking deserve. They should be fucking grateful they don't live somewhere like North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Belarus, etc. I highly doubt you could have the same advantages and comfort in any of those shitholes. They take their relatively cozy lives in America for granted.
Totally agree here
. Too many people act like nobody should enjoy themselves if they're having a bad day or mad/upset about something. It's as if they don't care about the adage, "Don't take your frustrations out on everyone else."Hand in hand with this, too many people try to bring identity politics into scenarios where it isn't even a factor. A straight person and a gay person reasonably disagree on something? Expect the straight person to be called homophobic even if it's not true or relevant. Two different races argue over something? Someone's getting labeled racist even if race isn't the issue.
Hang in there, fam.
That happens here, too. Halfway down my street is a drain by the curb. I can't tell you how many times it's been plugged with trash/debris or fallen leaves in the Autumn months.
There was a time when the human misery I saw every day at my job made me feel intensely guilty and I therefore became very generous. I would typically give at least a $5 bill to whoever was lucky enough to choose me to panhandle. One night I got panhandled as I was leaving the gas station and handed the guy $5. He took it and actually asked me if he could have more. I just stood there for a moment, speechless that someone would actually be so ungrateful. I don't carry cash anymore.
You were lucky you weren’t stabbed. Black people are a pest and I hope you learned from this.
This also seems to be part of a larger trend where people make high-visibility posts that virtue signal (such as the all-black social media avatar) or posts that are more cryptic. As an example of the latter, female friends some years back made what appeared to be random posts mentioning a color and nothing else (e.g. "Purple", or "Blue and white striped"). Only after one was prodded by friends did she admit it was some sort of breast cancer awareness thing where women were being encouraged to post nothing more than what color their bra was. That seemed stupid because there was no way to know what was being talked about and those posts prompted a number of responses from people shitposting a random color or asking the OP if anything was wrong. It would have been better to have posts that said something such as "In order to support breast cancer awareness, my bra is ... (whatever color)." Hand in hand with your point, these posts were still nothing more than cute slacktivism that did nothing to help those whose lives have been impacted by breast cancer.
Call it humblebragging, chest-thumping, counting coup, or whatever, but people seem to think that the louder they virtue signal, the better persons they are (spoiler: they aren't).
This pisses me off too. I wish society would hold shitty people accountable and punish them instead of pitying them.
This also pisses me off. Especially when it turns out they don't really believe in the virtues they're signalling. I've had one too many disillusioning encounters with people like this. In public, they seem like such wholesome, likeable people. In private, they admit it was all for show. When you try to talk about these things with them, they're dimissive, they laugh, and throw out a "Whatever." for good measure. That's been my experience. It sucks when people you think you can respect and look up to are actually total fucking hypocrites. I know this is commonplace and whatnot, but it still makes my blood boil.
