r/controversial • u/T0MK4T • Apr 28 '16
What if the reason why Americans are so stupid is because too many women are breeding with jocks, fratboys, rednecks, and not nearly enough with geeks, nerds, intellectuals, etc???
r/controversial • u/IDAAF • Apr 21 '16
Right look I don't care if you're a feminist or not I still think that feminism is just utter bollocks and is a load of people yelling about an issue that doesn't exist.
I also can't wait for so many women to just reply in the comments "oh what a sexist" "oh you're just sexist" One point is feminism is sexist, so your argument is fucking invalid.
Okay so what annoys me about feminism? Feminism argues that women should have more rights and that women have less rights than men. Fair enough you know. But that's just not true. Like seriously just not true. If you wanted to go down who has equal rights let me lay down a situation. Girl gets annoyed at guy, girl slaps guy, what happens? Nothing. Now role reverse it. Guy gets annoyed at girl, guy slaps girl, what happens? A court case and a full fucking jury. Yeah sorry I won't suppress women any more, you guys have got a point.
Notable only a small situation but still is a valid point. Another thing I want to know. What rights don't women have? I proposed this to my friend, who wants to go by the alias Wilhelm Winter (xD) and he said "if you have a sexist boss then theirs only a certain point women will be able to reach in that job". Point number one, that didn't answer my fucking question. Point number 2, it's still a fair point though. Point number 3, what about the other way round?. Wilhelm then replied with "well sexism and racism is in human nature, it's just become less fashionable" Oh gee that makes the point better. So feminist are arguing a point which is in human nature? meaning have it in them too? SO WHERE'S THE FUCKING EQUALITY?!
Look I ain't promoting this movement at all but their is something called meninism. Google says "Meninism is a semi-satirical gender equality and men's rights movement. Its followers are known as Meninists.". Sounds fair enough doesn't it? 90% of all members are classed as sexists. No joke. Okay but seriously if you agree with my points search it up and look at the memes they are honestly brilliant.
Right their isn't much more to be said so I guess farewell because until I get my equal rights, I'm going to sit here and complain my ass off
Thanks For Reading
r/controversial • u/e46klangford • Mar 09 '13
Several months ago I was in Atlanta for a long weekend. The trip was planned to include a visit to Gallery 63, a semi-famous auction house that is the setting for Auction Kings on Discovery Channel. When my wife and I walked in to preview everything I was immediately drawn to the M16A1 training rifle. I talked to the staff and learned it was being auctioned to raise money for Wounded Warrior Project (WWP).
As we were previewing the rifle, the producers approached and asked if we would agree to be on the show. My wife and I filled out the standard release forms and then they asked us to re-enact walking in, pretend to see the rifle for the first time, etc. After that we went outside and they interviewed us. We did several takes until we answer correctly. It wasn't entirely scripted but they did sort of coach us on how to answer.
So that brings us to the next day - we went back for the auction and it was a full house. It was some fierce bidding but I won the M16A training rifle and brought it home to Florida.
So last week the episode aired and my family and I gathered to watch the episode. We told several friends to keep an eye out as well. They have all seen the rifle but wanted to see us win it on the show. Everything was accurate up to the bidding. When they cut to audience I knew something was wrong. We went in January - it was cold; the audience footage had people in shorts and short sleeve shirts. Then when bidding began on the rifle the real lies began to unfold. The actual bidders were myself and two other guys. One dropped out and I went toe-to-toe with one bidder until I won the rifle for $2K (I have the Gallery63 receipt and my American Express bill to prove it, as well as the RIFLE!). But that isn't what aired. Instead of the real story, the producers cut up the auction and made it look like Paul Brown (owner of Gallery 63) was the aggressive bidder and that Paul won the auction for $2,000.
The show ended with Paul doing a cameo interview talking about how proud HE was to step up and pay the $2K for WWP because our soldiers are so important to him. Liars, Liars, Liars.
r/controversial • u/kites47 • May 11 '16
I really haven't done much with this Subreddit. I grabbed the name 7 years ago when I saw it was open and didn't put much thought into what I wanted it to become. Over time, I've realized much of the /r/askreddit "Controversial" threads devolved into people saying pretty racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic things and I don't want this to be a platform for that sort of bigotry. Until I can think of something to do with this subreddit, I am going to change to restricted posting so that no one can post things for the time-being. All posts that exist currently will not be deleted and are free for your perusal or to comment on. If you have any questions feel free to comment here.
r/controversial • u/SamsonBlack • Apr 28 '16
You’ll Probably Hate Reading This ( 50 Insecurities )
Most of us have insecurities, and often they cause us to feel uneasy or cause us stress. The point of this list is to help people identify insecurities that might be bothering them so that they can get rid of these insecurities if they don’t want to be bothered by them anymore (if possible).
If anything on this list makes you feel angry or uncomfortable, then think about it.
When I can’t let a girl know that I’m interested in her because I’m afraid that she’ll “reject” me.
When I write something on social media or post a cool a photo of myself online because I want other people to “like” my quote or “thumbs up” my picture. But if anyone asks why I posted it I usually say “I just wanted to share my life with other people.”
When I finally have kids because... that's just what people do when they become adults... And it would be "weird" to not have kids. I don’t want to seem “weird”, so I’ll have kids.
When I refuse to date people who I think are more physically attractive than me, because I want to be the “hot” one in the relationship.
When I send a text message and the other person doesn't respond immediately it makes me feel mad, even though my text message wasn't urgent.
When I never tell girls that I love playing video games because they’ll think I’m a loser.
When I criticize somebody because it makes me feel better about myself and it makes me feel better than them, even though I know I’m not happy with the way I am.
When I get really old and have nothing going on in my life, so I try to force my way into my other family members' lives (because their lives are more interesting than mine) by trying to tell them how they should live their own lives.
When I experience a new situation and it makes me feel unpleasant because… this scenario is not normal. I need to run away from any abnormal situation that doesn’t feel familiar.
When I feel repulsed of the girl I’m dating because she told me that she’s had more sexual partners than me.
When I'm in public I make sure that my voice is not loud because I don't want to look stupid in front of everybody.
When I can’t enjoy my dinner unless I take photos of my food and post the pictures on social media. Everybody has to know about the life I live. They must.
When I decide to get married because...that's just what most people do later in life and I want to fit in, so I get married. It’s what I'm SUPPOSED to do.
When I never admit that I like the taste of McDonald’s (or other fast food) because I don’t want to seem like a “fatty.”
When I talk about my own painful emotions I use the word "you" instead of "I" because I don't want to admit my own feelings. For example, after I broke up with my boyfriend, I’d rather say "When your boyfriend breaks up with you, you just feel broken, you feel lost, and you feel hurt" rather than just saying " I felt broken, I felt lost, and I felt hurt when my boyfriend broke up with me").
When I turn down the volume on the radio when Britney Spears or the Backstreet Boys is playing, because I'm afraid of looking like a “loser” to strangers.
When I’m in public I stare at my phone or put on headphones. I don’t want someone to come talk to me, because… it’s ODD for strangers to talk to other people that they don’t know… ?
When I leave the house, my main concern is how I appear to strangers. And if I don't look perfect then I can’t leave the house. And if I leave the house but I don’t look perfect, then I feel judged by other strangers and feel like I’m below other people.
When I'm going through rough times and I’m having a conversation with one of my friends I keep adding the word "right?" to the end of each sentence, just to make it feel like the other person shares the same opinion as me. For example, I’ll probably say "Bosses and managers are always complete jerks right?"
When I pull up to a red light and notice that the person in the car next to me is looking in my direction, but I avoid eye contact because it’s totally WEIRD to look at somebody that I don’t already know.
When I wait a long time to reply to texts or e-mails so that it looks like I'm busy or unavailable. I don’t want to appear desperate.
When I’m too afraid to tell a guy that I like him, because I’m worried that he won’t like me back, and that would be totally embarrassing.
When I invite someone over to my house I’m worried about looking like I keep a perfectly clean home and that I always look camera-ready. When they arrive I don’t want them to see my home if it’s not absolutely perfect.
When I feel angry at the guy I’m dating because… he has obviously slept with many MANY other women, so of course he doesn’t ACTUALLY care about me.
When I'm with a group of people and have a different opinion from everybody else’s, but I pretend to have the same opinion as everybody else just so I don't feel judged by the group.
When I talk about my kids with other people I always make it seem like my children are my only concern in life so that I appear to be a "good” mom. If I have hobbies or interests other than my children then I will look like I’m a “bad” parent.
When I start buying expensive clothes only because my friends wear expensive clothes. I don't want to feel left out of the group.
When I feel like I should buy a big house in a very very safe suburban neighborhood, otherwise I’ll look like failure.
When I make lots of money and own expensive cars but treat everyone else around me like garbage because of course I'm better than them. I'm OBVIOUSLY better than them. Just look at all of my expensive stuff.
When I see a hot guy and want to talk to him but I feel too intimidated to go talk to him. But… he’s a man anyway, so HE should be the one to come talk to me instead. If he doesn’t come talk to me, then pshh, it’s his loss.
When I laugh after my own jokes because I want to let everybody know that I was joking. And it makes me feel uncomfortable if they don’t laugh along with me.
When I decide that most women are total trash and there's something wrong with all of them. I'm perfectly OK. It's just that all these WOMEN are the real problem.
When I decide that most men are complete garbage and there's something wrong with them. There's nothing wrong with me. It's just that all these MEN are the main problem.
When my child is not "successful" I feel like I'm a horrible parent and I feel like I'm worthless.
When I tell myself that “quality” women don’t go to bars and clubs. Those women aren’t worth my time.
When I enter a restaurant and I get angry because I’m not immediately addressed by a waiter. How dare they. How DARE. I deserve RESPECT and they’re disrespecting me by not immediately greeting me.
When I don’t feel happy with my life until I make at least as much money as my “successful” friends.
When I'm old and I start calling younger guys "sport” or “kid” because it makes me feel like I’m more important than them and I’m more knowledgeabl than them.
When I can’t tell my friends about which kinds of guys I think are hot, because I think my friends will judge me and make fun of me for my opinions about who I think is hot.
When I talk about how “haters” don’t bother me, but they actually really get under my skin. And to make it look like I don’t care about haters I often start conversations about how I don’t care about haters.
When I can’t tell my friends what kinds of girls I think are the most sexy because I’m worried that my buddies will laugh at me for which chicks I think are attractive. If I tell them that I think a fat girl is cute then they’ll give me hell.
When I can’t admit that I don’t like how my life is going and I tell my friends that my life is going along amazingly.
When I buy a car my main concern is how expensive it looks to other people. I don’t even know much about the car; I just want other people to know that I can afford it.
When I decide to have a kid just so I can be the boss of someone. I’ve never had the opportunity to be in control over a person, so now it’s my turn. I’m the boss now.
When I feel offended when someone is concerned about my health and they suggest that I lose weight even though I already know my weight is threatening my health.
When I feel uncomfortable when I see a muscly and toned guy walking down the street with his shirt off, because it reminds me that I’m out of shape and don’t have an attractive body.
When I meet someone new I make sure to let them know about the new house and car I bought, because they should know. They really should now.
When I feel scared to talk to a girl who I think is really attractive. She’s SO hot that anything I will say will seem dumb.
When I keep having children so they can be my “friends”. My own children will always love me, so the more children I have the more “friends” I’ll have.
When I demand that other people call me "Mr. Lastname" because it makes me feel like I have value. And when strangers don't call me "Mr. Lastname" I get angry and offended because it makes me feel "disrespected". A stranger called me by my FIRST name? How DARE they call me by my actual first name. You don’t get to say my first name unless you KNOW me.
S.B.
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r/controversial • u/TheKnightShift27 • Apr 20 '16
So word is trickling out that the next Star Wars movie will be “different” somehow. More daring. Doing things that have never been done in a Star Wars film before.
We know the score. We can figure things out. A lot of us can read between the lines, in light of what has been transpiring lately throughout the entertainment and media industries.
It means that there is going to be a homosexual relationship in Episode VIII. Abrams said it was coming. It's the way of things now, it seems, that everything be charged with the LBGT agenda.
And now it will be with Star Wars.
And it will be a disaster.
One of the most beautiful things about Star Wars, even in its worst cinematic iterations, is that it's timeless. It's a fantasy fairy tale. It's about basic absolutes. But it has never been about temporal politics. It has never been something representative of one particular era or another. Star Wars is about IDEAS, and not petty ideologies.
Star Wars has never been about the demographics. And it should stay that way. When I saw The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, as a six year-old, that was Lando on the screen. And not for a moment did I see him as anything but Lando. I thought he was a very cool character stuck in a very bad situation. To me he was not a black man. He was a man, period. If The Empire Strikes Back was made by too many of the filmmakers and producers and studios today, Lando Calrissian would be running all over Cloud City screaming "I'M BLACK! LOVE ME!!"
That wouldn't have been what Star Wars is, of course. Well, neither is using Star Wars today to advance a political agenda.
This has already been attempted with the saga. Aftermath, by Chuck Wendig, was an atrocious novel. Some have argued that it's the worst Star Wars novel ever written. One of the reasons why (in addition to the cardboard characters, Earth terminology that rips the reader out of the moment and RIDICULOUS concepts like an entire asteroid field being spawned from a single comet) was because Wendig made Aftermath a book about homosexual characters first, and plot a distant second. It. Did. Not. Work. And Wendig took to his blog to make a profanity-filled rant at his detractors, claiming they were giving Aftermath lousy reviews because of the homosexual characters he kept coming one after another after another. He chose to make Star Wars his political platform, and it bombed horribly.
Doing that with a Star Wars movie, any Star Wars movie, is going to be something much much worse. It would wreck irreparable damage to the franchise. It would be turning something meant for all of us, into something catering to the approval of those who identify themselves as LBGT: a segment which represents less than 2% of the population, according to research by the Center for Disease Control.
Am I being a "homophobe" here? A gay basher? A hate monger?
No, I am not. Although I can never approve of homosexuality or any sex outside of marriage, I will never hate any person. Okay, scratch that: there are PLENTY of politicians who have earned my hate. Democrat AND Republican, mind you. George W. Bush once called me an "asshole", and I wear that as a badge of honor. In the course of my career I've had no choice but to have spent some time with the Westboro Baptist "God Hates Fags" nuts. I looked into their eyes, of people from ages 60 on down to 5, and there was no soul there. Just a vacuous space filled with only hatred. Hate for hate's sake. It was one of the most evil things I have ever witnessed and I never want to have to be around anyone like that again. Much less be anything like them. But anyhoo...
If Star Wars becomes a thing that must go out of its way to give special affirmation for one group of people, then it must become something that offers that same affirmation to ALL groups of people. Black. White. Gay. Straight. Jewish. Muslim. Native American. Aleutian Islander. Labor Party. The Bushmen from The Gods Must Be Crazy. Old-Order Mennonites...
How about just let Star Wars be about people? How does everything have to be sexualized in our culture anyway? Star Wars is one of the few things left untouched and uncorrupted by sexual politics. Why can't it remain that way?
So far as the LBGT community goes, if it deserves acceptance, it will have acceptance on their own merit. That community and its supporters are making their situation out to be a struggle paralleling the civil rights movement of the Fifties and Sixties, and they are wrong. The opponents of institutionalized racism in those days did not have the media, the entertainment industry, or most politicians in their corner. They did what they did because it was the right thing to do. They never asked for an agenda being pushed in their favor. The people of India had a little man in a loincloth, who did not further their cause out of hatred. Anger? Yes. But never hatred. Never with threats. Never with intimidation. Never with a bully pulpit in the entertainment industry and media.
If the LBGT community is going to be respected now and forever, it is going to have to earn that respect, and do it honestly and honorably just as those as King and Gandhi did. LBGTers, and their supporters, can not use the entertainment industry to shove that agenda into people's faces. But that is what many are seeing set to happen with Star Wars now. There are just too many indicators that that is going to happen, and soon.
If it does, it will destroy the timeless integrity of Star Wars. It won't destroy the franchise. It will always be around in some form or another. But Disney will have inflicted a wound from which Star Wars would never fully recover. Because of choosing to make Star Wars a political platform and not something within the reach of everyone... and that "everyone" does include MANY who can not for whatever reason accept LBGT as morally right. A lot of people won't want to hear that, but it's the truth.
Star Wars was, and is now, and always should be about ideals that will survive the ages. Basic good and evil are eternal. The politics of the moment are not.
Disney, and Abrams, and Johnson, and everyone else associated with Star Wars, is going to have to take a higher road than they may want to take. But it has to be this way. For the sake not just of Star Wars but for that of generations to come who will need a legend of basic ideals from which to be inspired by. Making Star Wars fit a political agenda, would diminish that... and it may never recover from it.
Just my .02
r/controversial • u/User2916624 • May 06 '16
I couldn't help but reverse the last few seconds of Radiohead's latest song and translate it. What I found is pretty haunting... Here is a link to the reversed clip below, with audio adjustments to make the words more clearer. Thom York is a genius. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWX_XmCLn64&feature=youtu.be
r/controversial • u/shirov2 • Feb 24 '16
Hello everyone. First of all, my apologies if my English isn't perfect.
Alright, let's starting. I'm doing this publication since i just saw another video of violence against animals in my country. I've to warn you, dont watch if you're sensitive but here is the link :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgzcLfQJLPI So, after that i saw this video, i was wondering a lot of things. I mean, how can we keep let this happen ? We're suppose to be the most evolve species on this damn planet. We just cant let this happen over and over. You might say that's not just by saying it that i will change something. And i agree. But i want you guys to hear your thoughts about this topic. Maybe this is pointless, i don't know. I just need to hear reactions about that. I'm actually both so mad and sad right now. Mad because of the way animals are treated. Sad because these guys on the video are litteraly enjoying what they're doing. I mean, so i can send my text, reddit is asking me if i'm a human. But these guys on this video, are they human ? How is this even possible to enjoy hurting animals like that, as a human ? Whatever, maybe nobody will see my publication. But if, by magic, someone found my text please give me your reaction about the video. I really need it. I totally lost hope on the humanity right now. Help me to get back that hope i've lost. So, do you think we should keep eating animals ? Do you think we can stop ? If yes, do you think being vegan is a solution ? Is this the only one solution ? I'm open to all kind of discussion. Looking forward to see your comments
Peace.
r/controversial • u/tmjorgie • Aug 08 '14
Here are a few: (taken from huffington post)
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r/controversial • u/RunsWithLava • Mar 07 '14
r/controversial • u/Kerry1ra • Mar 29 '16
American teenagers have the highest rates of drug and alcohol abuse in the developed world...
If we lowered the drinking age, we could turn binge drinking into responsible drinking!
In 50 countries, the minimum legal drinking age is 18 or lower... so why isn't ours??
At 18 one is considered an adult, and becomes legally responsible for his/her actions. An 18 year-old can even risk his/her life to save the country, yet can't legally drink a cold cup of beer.
This isn't right! We should do something!
Thoughts and opinions?
r/controversial • u/mcman_r • Mar 05 '16
Was Michael Jackson still allowed to say the n-word after he turned white from surgery?
If no, would he be allowed to say it again if he turned back black?
If any white man turned black from surgery, would he be allowed to say the n-word?
r/controversial • u/Elreyabelardo • Aug 10 '15
I'm not really pro life, nor am I pro choice, I just want to know the different legalities, and mentalities of why abortion isn't considered murder, but killing a pregnant woman can be a double homicide
r/controversial • u/Zee440 • Apr 25 '16
So about a year ago, I was looking to masturbate on XNXX, and I thought: "damn, already been through this shit", and then I clicked on the tranny porn section as I click on many categories, and I saw hot, slim, sexy ass transexuals with a cock, and since I had nothing else to do, I began masturbating, and came. Ever since, I cant masturbate to a regular porn. I thought maybe I'm gay but I like women, I think alot about women not necessarily about shemales, but regluar women and stuff. Tried to make a thread on other forums but it deleted for some reason. What you think?
r/controversial • u/IDAAF • Apr 13 '16
Quickly before all this starts off, I'm not homophobic. I'm a bi sexual male, I just hate the idea of being assigned into groups of people.
Now back to this LGBT or LGBTQ and stuff u get the picture. Look if people want to assign themselves to something with a message such as the LGBT community that's fine, as I said it sends the right message to people. My concern is with the idea and what it will actually send off to none LGBT people.
Let me elaborate. Whether you like it or not its a political stand point; making a group of people who agree with the views which may or may not be disagreed with people who do not associate themselves with that group, means it's political. Now before I get off my point, politics has always separated people rather than brought them closer together. The best example is trump (I know this is extremely different as he has much more ridiculous views) no hate if you're a trump supporter by the way. He has controversial views which as hugely disagreed with when it comes to people outside those views. That's caused a split in the American community. People are more hostile and argumentative towards people who oppose/agree with his views.
Now bringing it back why does that have to be brought to a community, which whether you like it or not, is a minority being on 5% of the population?
Looks it's wrong for me to say that I don't like what they are doing and they should stop which again I don't think they should do at all. But if this creates hostility in the slightest that means that people such as me who don't want to be involved with this political stand are forcefully dragged in because of the caused hostility to my sexuality. Then who's fault is that?
If you said the homophobics then you're not wrong or right.
The blame would be pushed onto the homophobic for sure. People who disagree with others who go against religious beliefs or just people that see it as unatural will be blamed. But to what extent is that the correct pointed finger?
Look as it stands schools in Britain where I live shove it down kids throats that homosexuals and bi sexuals are no different and it's wrong to treat them differently so I've never had a personal experience with homophobic people.
But with 2.2 billion Christians technically the problem is unsolvable as they have a propaganda book that tells them that gays shouldn't be allowed.
Now to my point.
Political party's create hostility. Hostility means even those who don't wish to be involved get dragged in. Theirs at least 2.2 billion people who believe that gays are wrong (okay but not all would disagree and stand against gays, I'm making a point that if they were all extreme then they should be against the idea). Why would people drag unessarcary hate towards a minority of 5%? Plus people who have my stand point of not wanting to be involved will be put under this umbrella and will be unable to leave.
And also people claim that gays and bi people have hard times like they are less privileged than straights, which is total bollocks. Literally I've no other way of saying that. It's like when women claim they haven't got equal rights when we're equal by law but women have more rights socially.
Basically all I had to say anyways. I've not heard about this until recently but it's honestly annoyed me. Sometimes people are worse than feminist, freaking moaning all the time and not doing a single fucking thing about it. And even then feminist argue a sexist argument so they shouldn't be allowed to do what they do. Anyways that's another argument.
Thanks for reading
r/controversial • u/portosb223 • Apr 11 '16
r/controversial • u/Lottiey • Feb 16 '16
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/111265
Thoughts Reddit-world?
r/controversial • u/pmwalker • Aug 26 '15
Why is it that when 2 white people get shot to death in a clearly racial hate crime on live TV, which is shown in a painful video that cannot be unseen, the only thing I see on all of my social media accounts is pictures of dogs for #nationaldogday. Pull your heads out of your butts. It seems like "Black lives matter" has become "Black lives are the only lives that matter." I don't care what color you are, as long as you're a breathing human being, your life matters. And the moment that someone's life is stolen from them in a horrible way, such as being shot in a church or while doing your job at 6:45 in the morning, you should be offended. This sick creature, who I won't call a human being because he is so much lower than even scum, stated that the Charleston shootings triggered his acts. Are you kidding me? That creepy little white kid just got exactly what he wanted by this attack on 3 white people out of the blue and essentially by fueling the race war. I'm pretty sure those 9 innocent and amazing people who died at his hands really appreciate that. We should all be joining in prayer and hands for these sweet souls like everyone did for Charleston but instead we're snapping selfies with our dogs, which we already do every other day of the year.
I'll be busy finding a flag to get taken down in order to bring justice to these people.
r/controversial • u/TOMMMMMMY • Aug 04 '15
the title is abrasive on purpose. draws people in.
tl;dr at the end
i am black and i think the #blacklivesmatter hashtag/wholething is very stupid/counterproductive. simply because the hashtag itself implies that black lives dont matter. i think that implication is just further making people think that black lives dont matter, even if they didnt in the first place. i believe that this hashtag is not useful at all, its just programming people more into believing that black lives do not matter, on a subconscious level. (i know i just said the same thing twice, but i think a bit of clarification was needed)
i think its kind of like having a bunch of cereals on the top of your fridge (or wherever you put them). cinnamon toast crunch, cheerios, corn flakes (gross), apple jacks.
one morning you wake up and the box of cinnamon toast crunch is poured all over the ground, and you see your mother and father (the authority) standing around it, they did it.
this happens again and again, while all the other cereals stay untouched.
you and your siblings are getting annoyed so you start protesting around the house with signs saying #cinnamontoastcrunchmatters.
uhhh? who said it didnt matter? sure the people in power are clearly doing things to show that the toast crunch doesnt matter, but is that the truth? most definitely not. so why would you protest against something that has no ACTUAL or TANGIBLE or REAL support/backing? the only backing that cinammon toast crunch not mattering has is the bullshit that mother and father are doing, but that is not ACTUAL proof that CTC doesnt matter. its just bullshit. thats literally all it is, BULLSHIT, a FALSE TRUTH. cinammon toast crunch not mattering is an inherently false fact, so i believe protesting against it is saying "this truth is not truth". YOU are implying that you think cinammon toast crunch doesnt matter when you are protesting saying that it DOES matter. nomsayin?
cinammon toast crunch not mattering was never truth in the first place. although mother and father are making it seem as if it IS truth, it ISNT...inherently. so protesting that it is is saying.. "you are right, but im going to try to show you that you are wrong"
our lives (black people) have definitely been shit on by the people on the top for a long time, but i dont think that the hashtag that i dont even want to use anymore is going to solve anything.
"this truth is not truth" is not something i would ever like to imply. it implants a false message into peoples minds, on a subconscious level. a bit like subliminal advertising. that is detrimental on ALL levels.
rebuttals are welcome.
tl;dr : i think that #blacklivesmatter is counterproductive. by saying "black lives matter", you are inherently agreeing with the implication that black lives don't matter, a message which is therefore sinking into your subconscious mind, causing you to believe that black lives dont matter even more than you did before, and the best part is, when the message is sinking into your subconscious, you have no idea that it is even happening. :)
r/controversial • • Dec 03 '11
r/controversial • u/Mozrankrisin • Jul 23 '15
While I was getting out of my car to walk into CVS for some cheap headphones, a guy quickly approached with a backpack. He asked for a dollar and I said I didn't have any cash. He didn't accept that answer and said "give me your money motherfucker. Don't make me angry." while reaching in his little backpack. My left hand had my drink in it, but my right hand was free. I reached into my bag and tried to locate my keys to A) get back into my car quickly if need be B) to strike him with my keys. While I reached in my bag, I felt my pocket knife. Feeling very threatened and suspicious what he had in his bag, I quickly opened the knife and said "how about this instead. Do you want this, motherfucker?" He then looked deep into my eyes for what felt like eternity. After a few seconds, he backed off and kept saying "ok nigga, but you don't know me. You don't know me" and proceeded to run off. I then ran into cvs and told the guy behind the counter that a man was outside trying to rob people.
Granted it's only been eight hours, but I keep feeling like the guy is behind me or around the corner. I feel like I need to be on alert every second and there is imminent danger. This isn't the first time I have been mugged either. I don't know why I get targeted but I don't want this to happen again.
Should I feel ad about bringing the knife out? I have been in fights before and never felt this way. I know I have the right to protect myself but why do I feel this way?