This is a non-picture rant - although if I were being a complete A-dollar-dollar, I'd link up the websites of the bloggers who recently offended me.
Despite the fact that we are a global economy, and we are constantly being reminded (at least by our tech department during morning meetings) that whatever is put out on the internet is FOREVER, people can't quite get the concept. A blog I used to follow posted pictures of araimo and how it sprouted in her garden. Well and good. I responded with something really important (yah, about a yam) and saw that someone had bashed poi. OK, I don't eat the stuff anymore, but c'mon. Let's have a little cultural openness, huh? So I responded that there were different tastes for different people. 2 MORE IDIOTS RESPONDED THAT POI WAS NASTY AND MADE THEM VOMIT BY LOOKING AT IT. I responded again that as someone from Hawai`i, it was kind of offensive for them to do this, and that calling someone else's food (or, if you're native, genealogy) gross was not appropriate. 1 MORE IDIOT LAUGHED AND SAID POI WAS DISGUSTING.
OK, I've read the blogs of 2 of the four idiots. Both men are from minority demographics, so I stupidly would have expected more tolerance.
Wrote the initial poster a message saying that I knew that SHE didn't write it and that I wished her garden well, but I just couldn't be a part of any community that fostered this kind of meanness.
Seriously world. Get a freaking grip on your manners. Or at the very least, on your tongue.
Despite the fact that we are a global economy, and we are constantly being reminded (at least by our tech department during morning meetings) that whatever is put out on the internet is FOREVER, people can't quite get the concept. A blog I used to follow posted pictures of araimo and how it sprouted in her garden. Well and good. I responded with something really important (yah, about a yam) and saw that someone had bashed poi. OK, I don't eat the stuff anymore, but c'mon. Let's have a little cultural openness, huh? So I responded that there were different tastes for different people. 2 MORE IDIOTS RESPONDED THAT POI WAS NASTY AND MADE THEM VOMIT BY LOOKING AT IT. I responded again that as someone from Hawai`i, it was kind of offensive for them to do this, and that calling someone else's food (or, if you're native, genealogy) gross was not appropriate. 1 MORE IDIOT LAUGHED AND SAID POI WAS DISGUSTING.
OK, I've read the blogs of 2 of the four idiots. Both men are from minority demographics, so I stupidly would have expected more tolerance.
Wrote the initial poster a message saying that I knew that SHE didn't write it and that I wished her garden well, but I just couldn't be a part of any community that fostered this kind of meanness.
Seriously world. Get a freaking grip on your manners. Or at the very least, on your tongue.
You tell'um! Uneducated morons.
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