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mighty mango · · Oregon · Joined Jul 2016 · Points: 0
Mikey Schaefer wrote:

Wow that's pretty cool, I was called a"fuccbois!"  Pretty sure that is a first!  You know what they say "there is no such thing as bad publicity"   


Edit to add:  I hope next time Erin walks past me at Planet Granite in Portland she introduces herself.  You'd think with all she has to say she'd actually say it directly to me.

nah she wont talk to you about anything because she refuses to hear out anyone that disagrees with even a morsel of what she believes, even the supposed "marginalized people" that she's fighting for.

Ross Goldberg · · El Segundo · Joined Oct 2017 · Points: 293
Brad G wrote: It’s funny, I have two hardcore conservatives uncles who are so stoked on this article and have posted it on their Facebook pages with my name tagged to it. 

Is it like a universal thing for everyone to have conservative uncles who ALWAYS tag you in political shit on Facebook? This hits too close to home haha

Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,516
Ryan Coath wrote: Mountains are for everyone. Nobody owns the hills.

SHUT UP, KOOK!

Tom Sherman · · Austin, TX · Joined Feb 2013 · Points: 433

Someone should start testing where this blogger gets their drinking water...

To be so feeble of mind to play the "this land is someone else's" game is just pathetic. Like you're going to deny everything having to do with reality, a reality that's been playing out for a significant time, including all the time that encompasses your life, and say that "well this land is someone else's". This is the "XYZ's" land, this is "so and so's" land. Oh it's not the USA? Well maybe it's not your 'tribe of particular concern's' land? Maybe it's the land of indigenous people before them? Maybe it's the land of people before written history? Maybe it's the land of beasts? Maybe it's the land of dinosaurs? Maybe it's the land of single-celled organisms? Maybe it's our creators land? Where does one's stupidity end?

Oh right, it's definitely the land of the persons you want to cry oppression for because you trace some mostly indiscernible diluted ancestral roots to.... Gotcha

Here's a challenge to the 'author'. Why not practice writing in a style where greater than 3% of the population can stand to read more than a paragraph of your demented and cringey theories? Isn't that what an author is, someone who creates things that can actually be read?

Old lady H · · Boise, ID · Joined Aug 2015 · Points: 1,375
Tom Sherman wrote: Someone should start testing where this blogger gets their drinking water...

To be so feeble of mind to play the "this land is someone else's" game is just pathetic. Like you're going to deny everything having to do with reality, a reality that's been playing out for a significant time, including all the time that encompasses your life, and say that "well this land is someone else's". This is the "XYZ's" land, this is "so and so's" land. Oh it's not the USA? Well maybe it's not your 'tribe of particular concern's' land? Maybe it's the land of indigenous people before them? Maybe it's the land of people before written history? Maybe it's the land of beasts? Maybe it's the land of dinosaurs? Maybe it's the land of single-celled organisms? Maybe it's our creators land? Where does one's stupidity end?

Oh right, it's definitely the land of the persons you want to cry oppression for because you trace some mostly indiscernible diluted ancestral roots to.... Gotcha

Here's a challenge to the 'author'. Why not practice writing in a style where greater than 3% of the population can stand to read more than a paragraph of your demented and cringey theories? Isn't that what an author is, someone who creates things that can actually be read?

Stromatolites, IMO. They own our original oxygen supply.

Best, OLH

Christian RodaoBack · · Tucson, AZ · Joined Jul 2005 · Points: 1,486

The only interesting question with people like this (Erin Monahan, Donald Trump,etc) is:  Do they actually believe their own bullshit?

Is the self-delusion total and complete, or do they actually stop sometimes and think: "Wow, that was a lot of bullcrap, even for me!" ??

Ryan M Moore · · Philadelphia, PA · Joined Oct 2014 · Points: 35

People espousing the views of Erin I have found to be true believers most of the time with a prodigious mastery of doublethink. I waffle back on forth about Trump whether he is a demented loon, or a shameless tactical liar, normally I lean towards the latter. 

Frank Stein · · Picayune, MS · Joined Feb 2012 · Points: 205
Christian wrote: The only interesting question with people like this (Erin Monahan, Donald Trump,etc) is:  Do they actually believe their own bullshit?

Is the self-delusion total and complete, or do they actually stop sometimes and think: "Wow, that was a lot of bullcrap, even for me!" ??

Both positions require capacity and willingness to self reflect. Sadly that capacity is lacking on both parts. 

Gerrit Verbeek · · Anchorage, AK · Joined Sep 2017 · Points: 0
Tom Sherman wrote: Someone should start testing where this blogger gets their drinking water...

To be so feeble of mind to play the "this land is someone else's" game is just pathetic. Like you're going to deny everything having to do with reality, a reality that's been playing out for a significant time, including all the time that encompasses your life, and say that "well this land is someone else's". This is the "XYZ's" land, this is "so and so's" land. Oh it's not the USA? Well maybe it's not your 'tribe of particular concern's' land? Maybe it's the land of indigenous people before them? Maybe it's the land of people before written history? Maybe it's the land of beasts? Maybe it's the land of dinosaurs? Maybe it's the land of single-celled organisms? Maybe it's our creators land? Where does one's stupidity end?

Oh right, it's definitely the land of the persons you want to cry oppression for because you trace some mostly indiscernible diluted ancestral roots to.... Gotcha

Here's a challenge to the 'author'. Why not practice writing in a style where greater than 3% of the population can stand to read more than a paragraph of your demented and cringey theories? Isn't that what an author is, someone who creates things that can actually be read?

Not to wade into all sorts of identity politics but I wonder a lot about that too. The Apache and Navajo are Athabascan tribes who broke off from the main Athabascan homelands in Canada and the PNW and migrated south around 1500 AD, displacing other native American tribes who had arrived by 400 AD with the first wave of human settlement of the Americas ( sciencedaily.com/releases/2…). Are Apaches not entitled to call that land home? The Comanches displaced most of the other Plains tribes in the 1600s, I believe, what about them?

Mike Lane · · AnCapistan · Joined Jan 2006 · Points: 880
https://everydayfeminism.com/healing-from-internalized-whiteness/

It's about time that a cure for terminal whiteness be developed. It's the current year, everyone needs to attend this before ever commenting on anything.

Sam M · · Portland, OR · Joined Oct 2017 · Points: 30

Let's not forget Free Solo is a film made by a woman of color who has much more perspective and intelligence than you, Erin.

Julie W · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2012 · Points: 0
Brother Numsie wrote: https://everydayfeminism.com/healing-from-internalized-whiteness/
It's about time that a cure for terminal whiteness be developed. It's the current year, everyone needs to attend this before ever commenting on anything.

and for only $475?!

Tim Stich · · Colorado Springs, Colorado · Joined Jan 2001 · Points: 1,516

Yay, someone found the Internalized Whiteness course!


I was thinking about it today, because the Holidays are coming up and you never know what to buy a white woman that has everything.
Ross Goldberg · · El Segundo · Joined Oct 2017 · Points: 293

I feel kind of sad for the writer. I wonder what it is like to go through every day so angry at almost everything.

Every day I go about my business without reading much into what other people are doing/saying, for someone like her every day must be filled with lots of anger,angst, and anxiety at the world and herself. She seems to believe that she needs go about every day hating herself for something she cannot change (being white) and being angry at other people for doing things she thinks are wrongdoings as she seems to think what most people do is wrong.

When you continually profess your hatred of your own heritage and of other people, it must make it hard to be happy. It's sort of like that spiral of depression where you hate yourself and won't believe others when they say otherwise. I hope she finds a way to stop being angry at the world.

Tradiban · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2004 · Points: 11,610
Ross Goldberg wrote: I feel kind of sad for the writer. I wonder what it is like to go through every day so angry at almost everything.

Every day I go about my business without reading much into what other people are doing/saying, for someone like her every day must be filled with lots of anger,angst, and anxiety at the world and herself. She seems to believe that she needs go about every day hating herself for something she cannot change (being white) and being angry at other people for doing things she thinks are wrongdoings as she seems to think what most people do is wrong.

When you continually profess your hatred of your own heritage and of other people, it must make it hard to be happy. It's sort of like that spiral of depression where you hate yourself and won't believe others when they say otherwise. I hope she finds a way to stop being angry at the world.

Stagg54 Taggart · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Dec 2006 · Points: 10
Tim Stich wrote: Yay, someone found the Internalized Whiteness course!


I was thinking about it today, because the Holidays are coming up and you never know what to buy a white woman that has everything.

Please tell me this is somebodies idea of humor?

Tradiban · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2004 · Points: 11,610

This movie may help solve any mysteries.

It's on Amazon Prime!

Ted Pinson · · Chicago, IL · Joined Jul 2014 · Points: 252
s.price wrote: Am I wrong for still being pissed at Yoko? That's what always comes to mind with these threads. Is it toxic?

For breaking up the Beatles?

mediocre · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jul 2013 · Points: 0
Ted Pinson wrote:

For breaking up the Beatles?

Why else would you be mad at Yoko?

J Squared · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Nov 2017 · Points: 0
mediocre wrote:

Why else would you be mad at Yoko?

don't blame it on yoki! 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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