October 21, 2010
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I Hate Everything About You!
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.
Comments (14)
Haha idk even who you are but ok.
Great post, i like it. I’m new to Xanga, but what you say makes sense, i was just wondering how some of those posts make it on the front page
a sad truth is that as we children we learn about the clique operation, and our parents try to tell us it will get better.
while we grow up, become adults trying to work in society, we find out that “getting better” is just a myth. the whole damn world runs on cliques, and I bet, if we really tested this theory, there would be more of us that felt alone than actually fit anywhere else.
I hate thoes people that stand around, saying ignorant things and laughing with their friends over someone elses mis-fortune. But sadly, there is no way to get rid of them, might as well learn to ignore them.
Christ…. comments already. I have to confess to a bit of an experiment here. Not that I didn’t mean much of what I said (though I’ve calmed down a bit now) but part of me just wanted to try something: simply dropping some somewhat familiar names in an inflammatory post to see if it would attract attention….!
Hey, this may have been just an experiment, but you’ve touched a nerve here. We in the states have to live amongst many of those republican/conservatives which are predominately from the religious right. These ignorant miscreants fill up those churches where they hold their hands high in the air, ftlled with a glassy eyed stupor, caught up in the rapture of self-righteous indifference. Other nations should count their blessings that they don’t have this fractured brained, skaggy lot amongst their citizenry. Ever notice their commentators? They’re all ugly!! The women, (and I use the term loosely) commentators are usually these pale, turkey nesked, scraggly looking blonds, with weird accents, conversely, the men commentators are these shiney, greasy faced guy smilies, that postulate nothing, but only yell about “values, god and country” and yet are completely devoid of these, total buffoonates!
Oh, and they’fe usually older stool pots, b/twn the ages of 45-75. Loud, noisy and useless.
Holy smokes – this was a great read. I haven’t been causing any shit in here myself for awhile so it was nice to see someone else take the helm.
These days, I just like to have fun and sometimes pop in here just to keep in touch with a few people. It just doesn’t pay to get into it with the vermin in here. There’s enough of them in RL to meet my needs, day after fucking day.
@errolmartins - Haha, interesting observations. And I do indeed feel for you, if there were one thing that makes me thankful for not being American above anything else it’s the Triple R; the Republican Religious Right
@DickDoktorII - Thanks! Your post was pretty awesome. If I were of lower ethical fibre I’d have stolen it and passed it off as my own. As it stands I may just steal your statistics to use in arguments! Indeed, re: the vermin on here. I used to be a fairly regular blogger but made the mistake of thinking I should branch outta my small group, like a “Real Xangan.” These days I just come on when the mood takes me, scan the front page, get pissed off, and remember why I don’t blog as much as I used to all over again!
I love this post, and yes it totally worked to name drop which is sad but true. No matter how old you get there will always be cliques. I try not let Loborn get to me, but come on how can one person be that extremist and ignorant? And every time I see her post on the front page a little bit of me dies inside, but I am guilty of feeding into her..sigh.
@azure_beauty - Hi, thanks for commenting, name-drop related or otherwise.
Yeah, I figured LoBorn loves all this attention so giving him/her/it none is the best way. They’re either a pathetic attention whoring bigoted moron, or a pathetic attention whore posing as a bigoted moron; either way, not worth your time, mine or anyone elses.
The fact that you titled your edits made me laugh out loud with amusement. But I completely agree with what you were saying. It’s strange because when I used to use this site, I was in the eighth grade, and so I wasn’t really paying any attention to the right-wing assholes, just reading what my friends did with their day. I do like Xanga much more than Facebook (which I have left PERMANENTLY) because of the fact that it is a blog, not just a series of stupid vacation pictures and insignificant status updates that inform the world of what a crazy night one had in a short, slurred sentence. But I guess Xanga is real life in some ways, in that there’s always some loud asshole in the room who gets all empowered because of all the eyes that are on him, so he just shits the dumbest crap out of his mouth, while absorbing the attention through a straw stuck up his ass. Situations like these are unavoidable. The Nancy Graces and such of the world are everywhere, even here. I enjoyed reading your post.
@LazyyLinepainterjane - Glad to amuse
Yeah, I’m one of those people that internalises and takes things too much to heart. I’ve been told I should just let go and ignore these douches and I try. But every now and again I have to vent, hence this post! Thanks for stopping by!
@moss_icon - Yeah, well I’m the exact same way, so I hope my comment wasn’t taken as a holier than thou advice tidbit.
@LazyyLinepainterjane - not at all