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Being a white southerner means being stained with the race-relations version of original sin, and everyone knows all Red-State people are branded on the forehead with the Mark of Cain, and cannot be redeemed, even if they want to be, so I'm not chiming in on the cultural appropriation discussion (except to say that, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pixyofthestyx, our discussion last night about meta and race in fandom, and nobody ever counting "Jewish" as a valid minority, seems to have been prophetic. Looking white means you'll never truly know what it's like to be discriminated against or under-represented. I have this straight from people who are not white southerners, and therefore can speak with more authority than me). I'll merely add another bitchy rant that will never be posted to my list of bitchy, inflammatory rants that have never been posted that I type up every time this subject comes around.
Somehow, until I readhippediva's post with the lyrics to "Sympathy for the Devil," it totally escaped my notice that today is 6/6/6, and therefore, International Crowley Appreciation Day (and also Brimstone Appreciation Day, and The Exorcist Appreciation Day, and probably some kind of holiday in Rafi's Church). If I could draw, I'd produce Good Omens art in homage, but alas, I cannot.
I considered posting that Ralph Waldo Emerson poem that goes, "They reckon ill who leave me out/ when darkness flies, I am the wings/I am the doubter and the doubt," which always reminded me of a Victorian version of "Sympathy for the Devil," but belatedly remembered that the poem equates Hinduism with Satanism. Ooops. Emerson, you are an Evil, Imperialistic Victorian.
I'll have to quote Milton instead:
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
pixyofthestyx, our discussion last night about meta and race in fandom, and nobody ever counting "Jewish" as a valid minority, seems to have been prophetic. Looking white means you'll never truly know what it's like to be discriminated against or under-represented. I have this straight from people who are not white southerners, and therefore can speak with more authority than me). I'll merely add another bitchy rant that will never be posted to my list of bitchy, inflammatory rants that have never been posted that I type up every time this subject comes around.Somehow, until I read
hippediva's post with the lyrics to "Sympathy for the Devil," it totally escaped my notice that today is 6/6/6, and therefore, International Crowley Appreciation Day (and also Brimstone Appreciation Day, and The Exorcist Appreciation Day, and probably some kind of holiday in Rafi's Church). If I could draw, I'd produce Good Omens art in homage, but alas, I cannot.I considered posting that Ralph Waldo Emerson poem that goes, "They reckon ill who leave me out/ when darkness flies, I am the wings/I am the doubter and the doubt," which always reminded me of a Victorian version of "Sympathy for the Devil," but belatedly remembered that the poem equates Hinduism with Satanism. Ooops. Emerson, you are an Evil, Imperialistic Victorian.
I'll have to quote Milton instead:
The mind is its own place, and in it self
Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
What matter where, if I be still the same,
And what I should be, all but less then he
Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least
We shall be free; th' Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not drive us hence:
Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.