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The Inevitable Backlash

I’m personally torn on the events that occurred at Charlie Hebdo yesterday. As an artist I am a strong advocate in the freedom of speech and anti-censorship. I am also however very strongly the the idea that with those freedoms comes responsibility. It is a great tragedy what has happened, and in no way do I think that what had happened was warranted or that they had what was coming to them. I thoroughly detest religious and idealogical extremism on every level no matter what belief system is come from. But I also do not stand behind the phobic views against any person or group from any other person/group.

It is ridiculous and gross to think that people in this day and age think that reverting to extreme violence is any sort of answer to what ever may upset them. Two other things that are as equally as ridiculous and gross are that even though Charlie Hebdo was heralded as a champion of free speech, they along with everyone of their supporters were and are ignorant to the hate that they are unwittingly spreading, and the last thing is the fucking worldwide media is on top of all of this while the bombing of the NAACP chapter in Colorado is last page news.

Yes, I understand that no one was injured in the Colorado bombing but for fuck sake, can the media at least pretend not to be sensationalist shit bags and use the tools they have to spread the news equally and truthfully without dollar signs and their various agendas in mind. Wishful thinking eh?

My thoughts go out to all who have been affected in both incidences and to those who may be affected by the inevitable backlash by the collective ignorance in the world.

As a sniper I was not usually the victim of a traumatic event, but the perpetrator of violence and death. My actions in combat would have been more acceptable to me if I could cloak myself in the belief that the whole mission was for a greater good. Instead, I watched as the purpose of the mission slowly unraveled.

The non-propaganda version of what it’s like to be an American sniper.

If they were in fact basing the costume designs of Frankie and Wilt on the above cover of Tank Girl issue #2, then Wilt is more accurately dressed as the devil.

Hold the fucking phone. Is Frankie dressed as Tank girl and Wilt dressed as Booga? Like what the actual fuck. How did I fucking miss that?

Gnarly as fuck.

So I realised that while there are Anti-X Action flags for loads of things, there was no anti-transphobia action one. So I made one. :)

#MakeDonaldDrumpfAgain

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You always talk smack about white people. That's reverse racism. If I said the same stuff about you, I'd be called a racist.

See that guy up there looking at you like you’re the crown ruler of all fuck ups? See how super white he is? Well, that ruggedly handsome devil is me.

Yup…I’m white. If I was Adam in the Biblical tale of Adam and Ave, God wouldn’t have made me out of dust/dirt. He would have made me out of Cool Whip and vanilla beans. That’s just how white I am.So, that puts an end to the whole “reverse racism” thing, doesn’t it? I’m a white man making fun of white people. You just got M. Night Shyamalan’d up in this bitch.

Also, racism doesn’t work that way. If a person of colour tells us we look like mayonnaise or that we’re weird as fuck because we don’t use wash cloths, that’s not racism. There’s no built in oppression there. That’s just commentary. Being mocked isn’t being held down. It isn’t being systematically deemed “lesser” by an entire group of people over years and years and years. It’s not based on anything. For racism to work (for want of a better term) there has to be that oppression. That’s why white people are so good at being racist.Also, white people being called out as racists isn’t racist. A person of colour saying “White people ruined hip hop” or “White people always steal pieces of our culture” isn’t racist. It’s the other way around. Iggy Azalea is racist. White people trying to pass durags off as high fashion is racist.

That’s why people hate us. Because we’re the most racist people on Earth and yet we don’t even understand how racism works.