Prick Smasher has a real good new album out
quoted 95 lines Ok i just saw all the other threads ahah my bad let's talk about music^^> Ok i just saw all the other threads ahah my bad let's talk about music^^
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> *De :* Da Beber <superdezzz@hotmail.com>
> *Envoyé :* mercredi 28 mars 2018 11:57
> *À :* Marcus Kreitzer; brit walker; nat hawks
> *Cc :* Basma O; Clint Anderson; 22tape; J L; Mauro; idm@hyperreal.org
> *Objet :* RE: beatwife podcast
> Nat, I think your reaction just highlighted the general mindset people
> have in the US.
>
> I have the feeling that your country is turning into an aseptic boring
> world because nobody wont say anything cause everybody gets easily
> chocked and outraged and triggered.
>
> The way we see it from here (europe, france, living in Paris) is that
> all the technology surrounding us gave us a voice, a way to be heard.
> And unfortunately, when everybody gives their opinion, you just
> realise that people won't make effort on themselves, they don't blame
> themselves anymore, it's always the others that have to change. When
> you dislike something, instead of trying to understand the
> thing/deal with it, you just say it's bad and it must be change.
>
> Well believe me, this mindset is just the best way to have a country
> full of entitled pricks that would never question themselves and would
> totaly freak out in front of adversity (life is not a piece of cake,
> as a reminder)
>
> So i agree we have to be more tolerant, we have to take care about
> each other. But don't let ourselves become weak people that can't
> overcome challenge and are afraid of even trying to understanding why
> we are so easily triggered now.
>
> B.
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> *De :* Marcus Kreitzer <markreitzer@gmail.com>
> *Envoyé :* lundi 26 mars 2018 07:43
> *À :* brit walker; nat hawks
> *Cc :* Basma O; Clint Anderson; 22tape; J L; Mauro; idm@hyperreal.org
> *Objet :* Re: beatwife podcast
> My apologies if that sent twice. I got an error from the mailer daemon
> the first time
>
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> Marcus Kreitzer
>
> On Mar 26, 2018, 1:37 AM -0400, Marcus Kreitzer
> <markreitzer@gmail.com>, wrote:
>> @nat
>> Well I used to date a girl in college, and we’d go to each other’s
>> houses late at night and all that. Sometimes it would be well after
>> dark, but neither one of us minded walking alone in a virtually
>> crime-free college town. All was good.
>>
>> Cut to the next year, we’re no longer seeing each other and I had
>> just started seeing someone else. One night when she was supposed to
>> come over I asked if she was walking to my place or if she wanted me
>> to come pick her up, and she got mad at me for even thinking she
>> would walk across town at night, stating something like “you have no
>> idea what it’s like to be a girl walking alone at night. It’s
>> dangerous.” I told her that I’ve had plenty of female friends who had
>> no problem doing that sort of thing and all she had to say to that
>> was that they were idiots. 🤷♂️
>>
>> Perhaps only slightly related, but this same girl tried to compliment
>> me (I guess?) by telling me that I’m not white (I am) because I’m
>> Cuban (there were black slaves owned by white people in Cuba), and
>> that I was appropriating her culture by burning incense (basically
>> every culture in human history has used incense).
>>
>> I guess the point is that people have different ideas of reality
>> depending on the stories they subscribe to. I know some women who
>> wouldn’t give a damn about the name beatwife and some that would flip
>> out like you are. Maybe the ones that don’t care are privileged and
>> have never been assaulted or whatever but I’m not so sure those
>> things are correlated.
>>
>> It seems to me that a lot of the time when somebody gets on their
>> soapbox and preaches about social issues that they’re doing it more
>> for themselves than anyone else.
>>
>> As for my opinion, the name seems a bit distasteful but so be it. If
>> you don’t like him don’t support him, but I think most reasonable
>> people, victims of violence or not, wouldn’t get overly miffed about
>> the name of a relatively esoteric musician.
>>
>> Lastly, I’ll reiterate what it seems like some people are trying to say:
>>
>> We don’t need to be told what to think by some self righteous
>> ideologue, and every time you backpedal and apologize you come back
>> looking more slimy and manipulative than you did before.
>>
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>> Marcus Kreitzer
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