that come out with these ridiculous videos? i mean, it's amazing, and i watched all of it completely enthralled. but damn, it's like a homemade version of gangnam style.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Monday, September 14, 2015
saw this on reddit. pretty good analogy to the "black lives matter" vs "______ lives matter" debate.
Imagine
that you're sitting down to dinner with your family, and while everyone
else gets a serving of the meal, you don't get any. So you say "I
should get my fair share." And as a direct response to this, your
dad corrects you, saying, "everyone should get their fair share." Now,
that's a wonderful sentiment -- indeed, everyone should, and that was
kinda your point in the first place: that you should be a part of
everyone, and you should get your fair share also. However, dad's
smart-ass comment just dismissed you and didn't solve the problem that
you still haven't gotten any!
The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out.
That's the situation of the "black lives matter" movement. Culture, laws, the arts, religion, and everyone else repeatedly suggest that all lives should matter. Clearly, that message already abounds in our society.
The problem is that, in practice, the world doesn't work the way. You see the film Nightcrawler? You know the part where Renee Russo tells Jake Gyllenhal that she doesn't want footage of a black or latino person dying, she wants news stories about affluent white people being killed? That's not made up out of whole cloth -- there is a news bias toward stories that the majority of the audience (who are white) can identify with. So when a young black man gets killed (prior to the recent police shootings), it's generally not considered "news", while a middle-aged white woman being killed is treated as news. And to a large degree, that is accurate -- young black men are killed in significantly disproportionate numbers, which is why we don't treat it as anything new. But the result is that, societally, we don't pay as much attention to certain people's deaths as we do to others. So, currently, we don't treat all lives as though they matter equally.
Just like asking dad for your fair share, the phrase "black lives matter" also has an implicit "too" at the end: it's saying that black lives should also matter. But responding to this by saying "all lives matter" is willfully going back to ignoring the problem. It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. And so saying "all lives matter" as a direct response to "black lives matter" is essentially saying that we should just go back to ignoring the problem.
The problem is that the statement "I should get my fair share" had an implicit "too" at the end: "I should get my fair share, too, just like everyone else." But your dad's response treated your statement as though you meant "only I should get my fair share", which clearly was not your intention. As a result, his statement that "everyone should get their fair share," while true, only served to ignore the problem you were trying to point out.
That's the situation of the "black lives matter" movement. Culture, laws, the arts, religion, and everyone else repeatedly suggest that all lives should matter. Clearly, that message already abounds in our society.
The problem is that, in practice, the world doesn't work the way. You see the film Nightcrawler? You know the part where Renee Russo tells Jake Gyllenhal that she doesn't want footage of a black or latino person dying, she wants news stories about affluent white people being killed? That's not made up out of whole cloth -- there is a news bias toward stories that the majority of the audience (who are white) can identify with. So when a young black man gets killed (prior to the recent police shootings), it's generally not considered "news", while a middle-aged white woman being killed is treated as news. And to a large degree, that is accurate -- young black men are killed in significantly disproportionate numbers, which is why we don't treat it as anything new. But the result is that, societally, we don't pay as much attention to certain people's deaths as we do to others. So, currently, we don't treat all lives as though they matter equally.
Just like asking dad for your fair share, the phrase "black lives matter" also has an implicit "too" at the end: it's saying that black lives should also matter. But responding to this by saying "all lives matter" is willfully going back to ignoring the problem. It's a way of dismissing the statement by falsely suggesting that it means "only black lives matter," when that is obviously not the case. And so saying "all lives matter" as a direct response to "black lives matter" is essentially saying that we should just go back to ignoring the problem.
Thursday, September 3, 2015
Thursday, August 13, 2015
please, publix!
publix could be the perfect grocery shopping experience, if they would have these out.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
meh.....eeeeh? maybe.
if someone described this movie to me, i would give them an emphatic thumbs down. but after checking out the trailer....cranston is just too good. i'll have to check it out.
meh
i love qt as much as the next dude, and maybe it's just the trailer that sucks. but this looks like it's gonna suck. i hope i'm wrong.
hmmmm. i need to get into the corporate world
so i'm in human resources right now. getting ready to get a few certificates, or maybe go back to school for a degree. i checked out this website, from the dept of labor stats
clicky
it'll tell you how much your counterparts are making in your industry. the bottom 10%, median, average, you can filter by state, any number of stuff. very interesting.
so what i found out is that i need to be an hr manager. the bottom 10% make 6 figures, which is great. but the top of the range isn't too far from that. so once you're in, you're kinda locked in. but hey, i'm not a greedy guy.
clicky
it'll tell you how much your counterparts are making in your industry. the bottom 10%, median, average, you can filter by state, any number of stuff. very interesting.
so what i found out is that i need to be an hr manager. the bottom 10% make 6 figures, which is great. but the top of the range isn't too far from that. so once you're in, you're kinda locked in. but hey, i'm not a greedy guy.
Thursday, August 6, 2015
pretty hilarious
i've had my fair share of moonshine throughout the years. like this video suggests, some moonshine is sweet and lower proof and others are stronger taste-like-burning proof. these are some pretty good reactions. though my favorite part is when the white dude that's paired with the asian guy tastes the 180 proof moonshine. he straight thug-life's his reaction. makes me want to drink with him.
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
Monday, July 20, 2015
Friday, July 17, 2015
leo and tom?
hellz yeah!
i think this is the perfect way to make a trailer. it gives nothing away about what happens, but makes me super hyped to see the movie.
i think this is the perfect way to make a trailer. it gives nothing away about what happens, but makes me super hyped to see the movie.
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
whew! been a minute!
does anyone even come visit here?!
answer: probably not, MAYBE mrs. ktl?
anyways, i will be posting into the great abyss of the internet
spewing stupid shit about life and love in the new millennium
hope you enjoy!
answer: probably not, MAYBE mrs. ktl?
anyways, i will be posting into the great abyss of the internet
spewing stupid shit about life and love in the new millennium
hope you enjoy!
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