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I remember my North Carolina stepmother and my Alabama paternal grandfather high-fiving over the idea of the south winning the Civil War, and that's as extreme as my family gets, politically.
And she seems more like the type of person who'd just act really really disappointed about it instead of getting mad.
Pretty much. Most racism is more ignorance-based than actually malicious these days. My mother does the same and even cracks jokes about black people and taking my sister off her will if she ever marries one, but (I hope) she doesn't mean it. But she's still up for civil rights and such.
Well, if we're already doing lists:
I am somewhere between social liberalism and left-libertarianism.
My brother is twelve years old.
Our mother is a right-liberal.
Her brother is a conservative.
Their father is a socialist.
His wife is senile.
On my paternal side, my father, aunt and grandmother are all vague socialdemocrats, though my late grandfather was a hardcore communist.
^^ Given the era our parents come from, I suppose things could be worse. If nothing else, both raised children who turned out to be significantly less racist, although I don't think I've purged my own racism completely yet. What I think I've ceased to think in racist terms for the last few years (although I'm always learning -- I might look back on myself and groan), I have to admit to having unbidden racist "feelings". These are more difficult.
The frustrating thing is that I had to learn racism -- I don't recall knowing about the concept of race until I was ten or eleven years old. Before then, I just thought people had different skin colours 'cause their parents did and that was the end of it. Now I'm weaning myself off it again. fgfds
As for interesting lists, my late paternal grandfather was Hitler Youth -- effectively a political Nazi. How's that for a familial political change in two generations? And my late maternal grandfather was pretty much dead-on socialist as far as I can recall.
That's mine, more or less. The most obvious thing is that she can't mention someone who is a member of a minority without then saying, "you know, that [whatever minority] person..."
A very common and consistent political standing.
I look terrible here, but my brothers look pretty good.
[Image removed post-ban -Everest]
how come you're not an ant i don't understand
I'm wearing my flayed coat of human skin.
Well, that's why he said he looks terrible in the picture. You can barely even see him.
Damn, ninja'd
Also, my mother is racist towards Gypsies.
Even though she is extremely intelligent, she can also be very emotional and illogical. Since she is a schoolteacher and we live in a neighborhood with a large Gypsy population, roughly a quarter of her students are Gypsies. Since their culture is very different from the mainstream one, and the ones living here aren't fully integrated, they have problems adapting to many of the school's norms, including being quiet in class. Since the lousy Serbian school system, combined with rigorous child protection laws, leaves the teacher powerless (she can't kick them from class, give them penalties for their behaviour or even shout at them), they made her very frustrated. Combine that with the fact that most Gypsies in her life ended up screwing her over in one way or another, and you've got a person who thinks that most of them are inherently evil.
She has numerous other insane ideas, like applying personally defined regional stereotypes to people and defining them by vague categories ("We Sylvanians are the best there are, and Serbia would be better off if everyone else just went their ways and seceded. Vojvodinians are lazy and arrogant. Frontiersmen will fuck you over when you expect it the least. Bosnians are either very dumb or very smart. Herzegovinians are real men - a pity that they aren't a bit closer. Montenegrins are just terrible. Kosovars are stupid and opportunistic, and Southerners are the worst scum of the Earth.")
I meant to imply that the closest he has to actual political views are too trivial, bigoted and dumb to mention.
I'm pretty sure my disdain for politics can be tracked back to my mother having being devoted to political activism. She's a Jehova's Witness now, though.
Which one is you? I don't think any of you look bad.
Myrm, you're the guy with the glasses, I presume. It ain't bad at all.
I know, I just wanted to make that joke, thassall.
I got the joke wrong again, it seems. :P
My parents are both conservative, my mom a bit more so than my dad
My dad SAYS he's fiscally conservative and socially liberal, but he lets out enough racist comments that I wonder (not to mention the whole, "Fox News being left out of Canada is a liberal conspiracy". The only word he hasn't said out of that is conspiracy, but he says things like the liberal media wanting to misinform us and blah. I prefer the view point, "All media sources should not be completely trusted until you can confirm")
My mom has outright told me that my dad is more understanding than her, but I've never seen it (then again, she might know to bite her tongue when it comes to politics)
I think when I was eight years old or so I thought it would be a great idea to print my own money and overthrow the government in a currency war.
Needless to say, economics was not part of grade school curricula.
Icalasari, if for some insane reason the decision whether to bring Fox News over to Canada resided solely on the outcome of a boxing match between your father and someone else...I'm sorry, but I would sign up to knock him on his ass to ensure they don't ever come here.
^ Can I donate a few bucks your way if that fight happens?
Please do.
PEOPLE KEEP ASKING ME FOR RELATIONSHIP ADVICE.
STOP THIS. I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON AND WAS A WORSE BOYFRIEND.
Might as well post what I got at Anime Boston, since it was one of only three things I'm really grateful for:
-Spice and Wolf volumes 5 and 6 (forgot I already had 5, but who cares)
-One Piece and K-On! wall posters
-The first season of both K-On! and Darker than Black on DVD
-Eden of the East, the complete series
-Utawaremono, at the recommendation of the person running the booth where I got Eden of the East
I love biome painter. I turned a quaint village into ancient, forgotten ruins
EDIT: This is for Minecraft
^^Sounds like a good haul.
Man, I want a Holo plushie but they're so expensive...
Also, that feel when one of your best friend's exes contacts you to ask about him.
*also, by wall posters, I meant wall scrolls, which is even better. Problem is, there's not much room to hang them till I move into the basement
Are Holo plushies really that expensive? I considered getting K-On! plushies, or at least one (I was on a bit of a K-On! kick because my roommate hates the shit out of it and thinks Yui is "a shit tier waifu"), but I remembered that I already have a figurine. Could've probably gotten a better one though. I think I considered getting . . . don't remember which series the characters were from, but it's probably for the best that I didn't buy them.
Aw, dammit, I forgot to get a mug!
And now it's hitting me that I'll probably actually have to read the literary cow turd known as A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
^ Well, at least I don't know that feel.
I think the one I saw online was like $35 at cheapest and I couldn't get one at Comic Con so I settled for a Miku one.
Which is when Nova swore off our friendship.
Buh.
How was Comic Con, by the way?
Oh, yeah, just remembered something that kind of sucked:
>meet cute Haruhi cosplayers in line for a Madoka screening
>talk to them a bit
>they walk out after episode three (as with a bunch of other people, and I'm like are you shitting me?!)
>my roommate dances with them at the rave informal dance later, presumably after I left because I don't know how to dance