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Friday, May 23, 2003

"i never see no green monkey!"
-some comedian


watching Court TV today and they have that trial of the girl who wanted to start an Anarcy Club at her high school and they suspended her for three days. see that? they just said something about the principal saying to the newspapers that her shirt said "america burn" on it or some such bullshit. the actual T-shirts they held up in court said nothing like that. and it reminded me of a couple things. why isn't there a word that can be used when someone exaggerates something to make their point and, in the process, completely submarines all their credibility? is there a word? besides douchebag? i have two examples that make me seem like an insensitive fuck but i'm going to cite them anyway:

i was reading a book called "Nazi Doctors" and i was all ready for any atrocity they could throw at me. then something strange started happening, i was reading the survivors accounts and i started to doubt the specifics of some of the stories. there was talk about a crazed doctor swinging a baby by its leg and bashing its head in against the wall. and i'm thinking this person had started to exaggerate to make a point that had already been made 5 pages in. i didn't believe that the baby swinging had really happened. i started to believe that the woman had just searched her mind for the worst thing that she could think of. the equivalent of me saying, "i turned around and suddenly i was eating a bowl of snot instead of cornflakes..." i just doubted her. maybe even for her lack of imagination. it seemed impossible that i could get irritated with a holocaut survivor's account but it happened.

then i was reading Dworkin's book "In Harm's Way" about the dangers of porn. i'd heard she was a nut but i have a lot of porn lying around and i figured i'd give the other side a day in court. i wasn't 20 pages into that piece of shit when i stopped believing the rape victims' versions of events. they discribed slobbering satanic college rituals and fathers that sold their daughters to the adult movie circuit and i again i was thinking "bullshit, he made you get that tattoo of a heart on your ass too eh?" see, i already know that rape and Nazis are bad. but it takes a special kind of person to make me more irritated with the victim. it's the kind of person that can't help but to tell the worst story they can to make a bad story better. and to that type worse is better. i don't know.

it's getting more and more common these days, especially post 911, like with that principal saying the girl wanted "america to burn" when someone hears something they disagree with, or maybe something that makes them stop and think they might be getting angry but can't really come up with a good obvious reason in their heads, they take that something and stretch into this ridiculous statement or over the top horror story to get more people on their side. and that shit works because people are fucking lemmings and they love to get mad about only the most obvious shit. maybe because the person who tells the tale can't stand the idea of a debate? something like that. like that SARS news about it originating from Asians eating "a cat-like animal as a delicacy." has this really been proven? even if it is, it just seems a miracle to me that the reason behind this plague just happens to be this age-old insult about Asians eating cats. it's like the talk about AIDS starting from some African fucking a monkey. then the news back-peddled a bit and got purposfully vague and said that the disease was "spread" from a monkey (a green monkey at that) but still that kind of news is gleefully based along by excited idiots falling all over themselves in an effort to say something racist and get away with it. if you want to say something racist, i say just do it you gutless fucks. grow some fucking balls. i'm all over the place with this but that's what happens when i watch five minutes of the news. back to Grand Theft Auto Vice City, where there is no racial conflict and a man can live and let...hey, five black dude coming over to my car to talk. oops. hate crime.

::: david - 5:00 PM [+] :::
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