tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post4347762354518573755..comments2023-06-19T01:42:09.481-07:00Comments on D constructing D: Let the Ass Kicking BeginDaktarihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08291715601733518982noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4987034451869317078.post-69087546528478369772009-03-30T07:48:00.000-07:002009-03-30T07:48:00.000-07:00Oh, snap.I'm proud to know you, D.I'm sort...Oh, snap.<br><br>I'm proud to know you, D.<br><br>I'm sort of surprised you let it slide for Bek... though I have certain friends I would have done the same for. But I would've given them an earful about the responsibility to speak back to ignorance hate and fear, and not just when it's convenient. Because when it's convenient, it's usually safe -- and safe from changing anything. (By safe I mean pyschosocially; physical safety is a worthy, though of course not all-excusing, concern.)<br><br>I have occasionally "turned the other cheek," and I'm often more polite than I probably should be, but it's funny, one friend of mine told me he was very proud of an instance when we were out with friends, and a friend of a friend of a friend, essentially, started talking about "the Jews" having screwed up something or other. This was fairly out of nowhere -- it was a pub quiz at ye olde Irish pub -- so maybe a history question stirred something in her mind. There was a shocked silence, and I was just like, "Damned if I'm not going to say anything." I didn't verbally smack her, exactly, but I did say something like, "That is <em>not</em> alright; what is <em>wrong</em> with you?" I think she tried to amend it somehow, I actually don't remember it quite clearly, and actually it slipped my mind 'till my buddy reminded me of it a year later. It sticks out, because it's the type of thing I feel I don't do enough, and that I want to be on my guard against -- because it's <em>not</em> okay to let things like that go by.<br><br>Good on, ya, D.Jhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10444952585830773530noreply@blogger.com