{"id":455,"date":"2008-11-05T11:03:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=455"},"modified":"2008-11-06T12:05:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T17:05:49","slug":"n0-p0litiks-p1z-kthx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;n0 P0litiks P1z, kthx&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So today&#8230; I was subject to a racial slur. I found it humorous, as the slur was chased with a foolish statement which negated the ire in his words. So I will paraphrase the exchange before I go into my rant&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Wacky Headcase (WH):<\/strong> &#8220;omgz! This country&#8217;s going to Hell! America&#8217;s lost it&#8217;s tradition!!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Student Instructor (SI):<\/strong> &#8220;Settle down&#8230; This is a <strong>MATH<\/strong> class, not government!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>WH<\/strong>: &#8220;Fucking Obama&#8217;s the Anti-Christ!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>SI<\/strong>: &#8220;There will be no political discussion on Friday&#8230; if you all even make the slightest thought, I will kick you out!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>WH<\/strong>: &#8220;This is bullshit! You&#8217;re obstructing my right to the first amendment!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Zero:<\/strong> &#8220;School&#8217;s a fascist system, <strong>DEAL WITH IT!<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>WH<\/strong>: &#8220;It&#8217;s people like you that are dragging our country to hell, you Chink! Go back to your own country!&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Zero<\/strong>: &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, I was born in <strong>DALLAS<\/strong>! This is my country! If you think our country is going to hell&#8230; Live in another country and maybe you&#8217;ll understand what they go through!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I mean, I will stand up and fight for a person&#8217;s right to say anything they want in the proper forum. I am a believer of Voltaire&#8217;s most beautiful quote: &#8220;<em>I do not agree with what you have to say, but I&#8217;ll defend to the death your right to say it.<\/em>&#8221; The only condition is&#8230; I will do it in the right forum and right place. I also feel using racial slurs, name calling, or generally lacking an open mind is down right childish. Personally I feel that school is not the place, save a government or debate class&#8230; School is a home of learning and fortitude.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, with trying to use philosophical points with this coddy applejohn&#8230; It reminds me why I <strong>HATE<\/strong> talking politics with people. It leads to childish arguments and well it generally upsets a lot of people. The fact I had to use my brain with philosophy so early gave me a migraine and reminds me why RX-7 and RX-8 drivers warm up their engines before really ragging on them. So&#8230; If I see you online. No political discussions please&#8230; If I see you on World of WarCraft, put your McCain hate at your terminal and don&#8217;t bring it to Azeroth. If I see you in Guild Wars, you bet your ass that I want you to leave your Obama hate far away from Tyria, Cantha, and Elona. Hell, if I see you face-to-face&#8230; I want none of it.<\/p>\n<p>Just for the record before anyone tries to con me out with &#8220;You fucking hate democracy!&#8221; I will state that I loved Ron Paul &#8217;cause he actively campaigned about privacy, so there. I am getting the fuck out of this discussion with a vengeance. I just want to chill, mellow the fuck out, and say &#8220;Thank God the media circus and peanut gallery is over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Much love,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zeroxr_sig.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-154\" title=\"zeroxr_sig\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/zeroxr_sig.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"167\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So today&#8230; I was subject to a racial slur. I found it humorous, as the slur was chased with a foolish statement which negated the ire in his words. So I will paraphrase the exchange before I go into my rant&#8230; Wacky Headcase (WH): &#8220;omgz! This country&#8217;s going to Hell! America&#8217;s lost it&#8217;s tradition!!!&#8221; Student &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/?p=455\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;n0 P0litiks P1z, kthx&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[270,336,586,335,589],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-rant","tag-by-zero","tag-irl-drama","tag-personal","tag-politics","tag-rant"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdVBT-7l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zeroxr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}