Wanna Get Ficced?

A very brief disclaimer before the main event: This is not written to anyone in particular. I've just had time to consider things and have decided to blog them.

We good? We're good.

Here's the thing: I think diversity is bullshit. I do not think this because I think anyone is inferior to me because of race/age/creed/sex/sexual orientation/religion/what the fuck ever. I think that diversity is bullshit because it's all "LOOK! DIFFERENCES!" and I think that is COMPLETELY the wrong way to go about it.

I say this as a very, very white chick raised working class in the South. I've had a lot of people think I'm racist. I just don't give a shit about being PC about this bullshit.

I think my dad put it best. He picked me up from college one Thanksgiving, and we had a version of the following conversation:

HIM: "Your roommate is black."
ME: "...okay?"
HIM: "It makes me really happy that you never mentioned it."
ME: "The fuck?" [There is a 98% chance I responded with exactly this, as my dad isn't concerned about cursing.]
HIM: "I like that you just talked about your roommate and not about your black roommate. It's pretty much exactly what me and my generation were trying to do."
ME: "Oh. Okay. Cool."

If my father followed political correctness nowadays, he'd probably shit himself in rage, and I can't say I blame him. I fucking hate the word "diversity" in any educational/business setting because it means, "let's wave a red fucking flag to show our differences." I'm not against those differences as an idea. I am against using them to show how "hip" and "now" and "PC" you are. At one point I worked in a job where there was a single black woman at the same level of numerous white women and men. There was a day where we were working together where we found out the word of the moment was going to be "diversity."

HER: "You know, maybe if we taught respect, we wouldn't have to teach diversity."

That's stuck with me all this time, and will probably stick with me through my life, because jesus fucking christ, if that's not the point, I don't know what is.

Because "diversity" isn't about respect to me. It's about showing off how in-the-know you are whether you're in the know or not. It's putting up Kwannza or Hannukah decorations without checking if anyone you work with actually celebrates anything other than Christmas. It's taking special interest in people who come from shit backgrounds as long as they're not white, and it's promoting the idea that you're only interesting if you've had some sort of horrible past that could be used for an Oprah special. I'm not saying these backgrounds and beliefs are not legitimate; I'm saying that deciding these ideas are somehow MORE LEGITIMATE is bullshit.

I like people in life and on the internets because I find you funny or sweet or goofy or nerdy or because you will occasionally write me porn. I don't really give a shit beyond that, okay?

This is not to say I'm not political, but I do not feel the need to "authenticate" myself with "diversity" and other words that basically break down to being the PC common denominator. If you end up pissing me off, you won't do it because you're not white or not female, and you won't do it because you're not in the same political spectrum as me. You will piss me off for being a fucking IDIOT, and idiocy does not require a skin color.

My opinion and your opinion are equally valid as long as you come to me with facts and evidence and all those other words that make rational people hot in their junk. You want to throw straw men and intentional fallacy and all those shit at me? I will laugh. A lot. And do my best to stop responding as soon as possible (which is to say, I have a minor case of Train Wreck Syndrome, which should not surprise anyone on the internet).

Short version: I love you bitches. There is shit you can teach me; there is shit I can teach you. I don't give a fucking shit what you look like, and while we may post some shit that makes each other squick, I hope it's never a deal breaker.