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"SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman" (dasborgen) 07/18/2014 at 00:19 • Filed to: None

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AMGtech - now with more recalls! > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 00:20

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Live and let live.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > AMGtech - now with more recalls! 07/18/2014 at 00:24

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That's not the American way

Santiago of Escuderia Boricua > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 00:29

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Pride implies facing opposition though. You are what you are

GhostZ > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 00:52

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The following is a rant that has a lot less to do with sexuality, as much about the idea of "self identity" and how much of a bullshit social manipulation tactic it is.

Pride, as a concept, has been greatly changed since the shift in political lexicon after 9/11. We're just NOW getting over (and it shows up in other places) that weird place where it was REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT to be "true to yourself" and "proud of yourself" and "you are who you are" and you had to "find yourself" and "seek identity".

The problem is that your 'identity' isn't a real thing. It's terms, categories, and labels ascribed after the fact. There is no such thing as an 'inherent identity'. There's genetics, but there's no such thing as a "anger gene" or "gay gene" that affects your life decisions like that, it's far more complex and who YOU are is influenced more by what you've experienced and what you've done, than some vague notion of 'identity'.

So now we have a whole lot of people deciding to throw logic, reason, and opportunity out of the window because of an almost-religious belief in the "self identity". It's a self-defeating cycle: if you start acting as if everything in your life cannot be changed, you will stop doing these things to change it, and that makes it seem more obvious that you have this "self identity" because you've stopped allowing new experiences to change your mind.

Now, this is WAY more docile than trying to change someone else (through social stratification, persecution, ostracization) but we basically arrived at a point where instead of trying to improve yourself as best as you can be, if you find resistance in trying to become better, you just sit back and go "that's my self identity, it's just who I am! I need to be true to myself and not do that!" Worse yet, people will get inspired to do things that are detrimental to their mental, physical, and social wellbeing because they get roped into these ideas of identity. "You're a family man, you have to do this.". For example, the gay community at times can be a heavily polarizing group that ostracizes individuals just as much as anyone else for messing with the status quo (which, at times, is absolutely insane) that has been established. But to deny any of that is to not be "true to yourself" or to not "have pride in yourself", as if making a decision on your own without bending to other people's silly demands somehow makes you a weaker person.

"Being true to yourself" is just a reminder to not change what you're doing, even when logic and reason tells you differently. It says that when you are confused, instead of learning and empowering yourself, you should jump back to what you've been doing because it feels safe and is easier, even if it might be detrimental. It's a form of social and political manipulation that keeps people from really understanding what they can do beyond their "self" and exploring the world around them.

Anon > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 00:57

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Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 01:40

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So basically you want me to be an asshole.

No thanks. I respect people who respect others no matter their sexuality. You straight? Cool. LGBT? Super. Force your views on others? You just earned a punch to the throat.

Dusty Ventures > GhostZ 07/18/2014 at 01:44

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I agree with much of what you've said, but in regards to a "gay gene" it turns out there may well be one.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-med…

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 07/18/2014 at 07:18

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if you think celebrating a norm makes someone an asshole automatically, then you're what's wrong with society and its BS attributions of political correctness. Go read CrazedClay 's reply to this post.

There just so happens to be a Straight White Male festival in my town next month in a big park by our downtown. It's very shameful to me how many people find it pitiful, especially when our Gay Pride festival (which I've attended since I have lived here 6 years ago) gets Shit tons of support.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Santiago of Escuderia Boricua 07/18/2014 at 07:19

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not forcibly, no. I don't need to be chastised, repressed of who I am simply to be proud.

Wishin & workin for an E39 M5 > Dusty Ventures 07/18/2014 at 10:23

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That would be convenient for some of the most outspoken members of that group wouldn't it. They would then be allowed to blame something else for what many others view as wrong or evil. Another aspect of modern life in which we search for someone or something else to blame for our misfortunes.

Wishin & workin for an E39 M5 > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 10:24

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At one time it may have been, I'm thinking colonial pre-revolution.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 13:23

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Like I said, I don't really care what their sexuality is as long as you don't go piss others off.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 07/18/2014 at 13:35

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but how does it make someone an asshole celebrating this class of people specifically?

For the record, I'm black, from the Antilles

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman 07/18/2014 at 13:45

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Read my statement carefully. As long as you don't go forcing your views onto others on the hope that they convert, then you're golden.