Racist cat is racist.

Ok, so I guess it's time to soapbox a little. I'm really getting pissed the fuck off at how acceptable it's becoming again to be casually racist. This includes homophobia. It seems like I can't turn around without someone making a comment that just honestly crosses the line between maybe being able to play it off as a joke, and being just strait up racist.

The biggest offender, by far, is my roommate Evan. He hates middle eastern people more than I've ever known any one person to hate a group of people. My main evidence for this is that he's never refered to them as anything besides "fucking pakies". He even corrected me once, when I said "middle easterners" like that scene in Boondock Saints when Rocko is telling that joke. He's also one of the most homophobic people I know, and will continually call everyone a faggot, even just as a general greeting.
It really is.

What amazes me, is just how much of a hot topic homosexuality is in this country. Prop. 8 passed in California this past november. California actually banned homosexuals from getting married.

California.

When California starts banning rights, all hope is lost. Move to Canada or something 'cause America ain't free anymore.

I think the main problem is that we, myself included, allow these types of things to slide and don't do anything about it. We let our roommates yell "die, you fucking pakies" while playing video games, we let people talk about homosexuals like they're not human and all the while we do nothing about it.

That begs the question though, what CAN we do about it? Even if I talked to my roommate about his problems, he *might* stop saying that stuff aroud me, but he would just claim he's joking and still not change his opinion. I could stand up for the gay community and try to change public policy about them but honestly that's a life long goal, and a cause you would have to fight for every day just to see the slightest bit of change.

The source of the problem is just that this is how things have always been. There has always been some common enemy, someone to blame, someone to look down on. The only comfort I think we have is that we're really starting to run out of people to hate. We know it's wrong to hate black people, and anyone really who looks different than us. We should know it's wrong to hate homosexuals, and I think that in my lifetime, though admitadtly not until near the end, hating homosexuals will finally be looked down upon the same way hating other minorities is.

I sometimes wonder if it's a southern thing. I've heard from some people that in the north there isn't nearly as much natural segrigation and casual racism that there is down here. I really would like to spend some time up there to see how true that is.