Xanga makes me sick sometimes. I’d rather not be part of it in many, many ways. Not that me being “a part” of it matters. I, like countless others, operate a small, anonymous blog utterly unnoticed by, well, everyone. I got into it to keep up with friends but almost all of those friends have largely abandoned the blogging thing too.

Xanga just panders to the same bloggers over and over. It doesn’t matter what they write. They pop up on the front page every single log-in. Example: there’s this foul bitch blogger going by Lobornlytesthoughtspalace or some-such. Every entry she makes is some ignorant, bigoted, conservative diatribe, proudly dodging the pesky issues of reality, evidence, compassion and empathy to bring us a stereotypically right-wing dose of intolerant bile. And yet she has made the front page 4 times in a row in the past month! Why, exactly? It certainly isn’t her writing ability. Maybe it’s cos she’s designed herself as one of these populist “straight-talkers” designed to appeal to everyone with an uninformed opinion? Who knows, either way it’s clear Xanga is little but a clique catering to its own inner circle of nepotism. And there are others like her. Night Cometh, Megan, Precious Onyx, to name a few. People with no personal experience or real information casting judgements and aspersions upon all and sundry, self-righteous, sanctimonious and unyielding to the last.

Perhaps what I loath most about these morons is that I could so easily have become them. I was never as intolerant as they are, but I had my prejudices, like anyone. But having very literally been forced to walk in the shoes of those I would potentially judge, in more ways than one, I learnt the humility of empathy, tolerance and understanding. I learnt that no one ever has the right to judge another without first living as that person, heart and soul, without knowing to the very core the life they live, the path they walk. But there are those who will never learn this lesson, it seems. They will continue through life, safe behind the shield of unaccountability, damning any that falls outside the scope of their own narrow vision of the world. And they take pride in this willful intolerance, willful ignorance. They perceive themselves as somehow noble, in their intellectual and emotional obstinacy. They have no desire to open their hearts or minds lest it disturb, even in some small way, their own pitifully blinkered, dogmatic, draconian world-view.

These are the people who make this world miserable. These are vile human beings who do not simply fall into prejudice, they chose it, believe in it, revel in it. I am intolerant of one thing; intolerance. And these people live and breath intolerance like oxygen.

In short: I despise them

EDIT: This post was largely stress relief and was largely based on seeing the afore-mentioned blogger on the front page for the fourth time in a row, her content is the same right-wing extremist nonsense each time. I made this post to relieve my own tension. I mentioned the people I mentioned as examples of bloggers I have encountered and have clashed with at one time or another, or else quietly read their posts now and again but held my tongue. I am not in the business of hating on people… but hate begets hate and vicious diatribe blogging begets vicious diatribe blogging. I would like nothing better than to be proven wrong about someone I find myself disliking but sadly there seem to be some in this world who prefer to satisfy their own ego, opinions and beliefs rather than open their heart to, and try to understand, their fellow man/woman.

It also strikes me as unfortunate that I’ve received more hits from other xangans outside my own regulars since I made this post than ever before and all it took was a few name-drops. Part of this update was an experiment, to see if attacking other xangans by name brought more exposure. It seems it does. Ironically this is another thing I see a lot on the front page…

EDIT 2: I’m also beginning to wonder about Loborn-whatever. I’m not sure if he/she is indeed the ranting right-wing headcase that he/she passes him/herself off as or if they (got tired of the he/she-ing. Gender non-specific pronouns for the win!) are simply an independent styling themselves as a right-wing headcase to underline the insanity of the genuine right-wing headcases. I sense whoever they are would prefer to remain ambiguous, however, therefore asking would probably be redundant.

EDIT 3: The last edit, I swear. LoBorn is a fucking moron, no doubt. He is also a he, apparently. But who really cares? I mean, it’s obvious all this idiot blogs for is to achieve xanga-lebrity stardom via controversial posts that rile people and get them talking about he/she/it. Like I am now. So that’s enough. Another uninformed imbecile likes to make controversy-courting posts in some pathetic attempt at internet notoriety. They’re hardly the first. Fuck off.