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Whose day was it to watch me? Slacker. There was this kid born like nine days after my son. The seahag and I were friends with the parents, so the two boys grew up together, for a while at any rate. The husband got drunk at a party and slept with someone other than his wife, she found out, confronted the woman who swore that it was not consensual and she was drunk and What? No charges were filed, but the marriage came to an uglier end than it had too, and, honestly, I think the other woman was intimidated by the wife. 999,999 times out of a million the victim doesn’t lie. Um, that has nothing to do with nothing, except for the ex-husband was a hang-dog sack of shit for years over it and I kind of liked the guy.

I got into a Facebook argument with the kid this morning. Check your watching Haredawg schedule, someone seriously dropped the ball. I should probably feel bad about it, I just don’t. He posted the final straw, some dumbass meme about white privilege. Near the end I saw Amy G’s font typing in the back of my mind “Counting coup!” and heard my daughters voice, back when she was trying to convince herself to stay here “Portland is so fucking pretentious”. I’m not sure either of them would approve of my argument. But, it’s a pretty sure sign that you’ve counted coup when the other guy goes all ad hominem, says he’s done and adds six more ad hominem notes.

What I wanted to know is what he was planning on doing about it. Apparently, he doesn’t have to tell me, though he went on at great length of the degrees to which he didn’t have to tell me. I had this professor in a play writing class. Her catch phrase was So What? She meant why should anyone be interested in this play? What does it have to do with the price of tea in China? So, I’m forced to continue with the train of thought I had before, he had the golden opportunity to enlighten me. My train of thought is that millennials, at least Facebook millennials that show up in my feed, think posting a meme IS doing something.

It’s a question that could have a dangerous answer. We do not have inalienable rights granted us by god and the constitution. There is no such thing. Whatever rights we, any we, any way you want to carve up the rights turkey, we have by force. So, yeah, if you can answer the So What, one plausible answer would be to take away white privilege by force. That’s not really my problem with the white privilege phrase. My problem is it’s inherently racist. Sort of. I mean it would be if there was such a thing as white people; it says that an entire group, based on skin color, are implicitly entitled. I rarely let that kind of shit slide, gross generalizations of a people based on skin color. It offends my core beliefs and insults my intelligence. Fighting racism with racism is a stupid idea. I mean sitting on the porch with a loaded twelve-gauge kind of stupid, malice of forethought, premeditated, cruelly stupid.

So, I was licking the roof of my mouth to see if there was any taste of bad feeling. There was a bit. This kid is a grown ass man and this issue is important to him and I was relatively gentle, and he lost his shit. Imagine if he was talking to someone who was actually angry or someone who he could potentially win over, someone with influence, someone who was actually fighting with him. Losing one’s shit is not good, it’s especially not good if it’s over something you care you about, even worse when your point was ceded. I probably shouldn’t have poked him with the whole So What? What are you going to do about it? In my defense it was a fair and reasonable question and he lost his shit.

I think I’d be offended if I was a POC (apparently the new pc term; person of color.) that he was under the impression I needed some hair triggered meme poster defending me against the privileged white man. Yes, white women get a pass. Oh, and I learned something new; Jews in America are officially white now. Yeah, I know, I’m confused too. Asking for a source on that got me much closer to nowhere than I already was and I was accused of baiting him into anti-Semitism. I told him not to sweat it, by the end of the conversation I fully expected to be an honorary Christian too. He kept going with the whole Jews are privileged white people too. He didn’t care for my world war two analogy or my Hutu and Tutsi (sp?) genocide in Rwanda either. I suggested American privilege, he didn’t like that and said that they sell face whitener in Asia. I have no idea what that means. First off, it’s like saying there is nationalized health care in North America; it’s true, just not in the states. I can’t imagine what benefit looking whiter in most of Asia would have … and I can’t even begin to frame the So What? I also suspect it’s a bit like Jews being honorary whites, something he made up. European Jews have been white for a very long time and yet the tsars, hitler, anti-Semites all over the globe could see through that clever disguise. Um, it’s kind of like a white Asian, there still isn’t a crease in the eyelids (I mean just in case you’re afraid of white Asians sneaking in your house and … doing whatever it is you don’t want white Asians to do in your house.).

For some reason or other POC doesn’t really cover Asians and, oddly enough, they are really specific about which part of Asia they are from, at least in my experience. Perhaps they were made honorary whites too because they are so good at math. Offended? You should be, that’s some serious cracker peckerwood happy horseshit right there. I know of the two people reading this that one is convinced of the validity of white privilege especially if they are white (I’ve yet to hear that from a POC). Someone please tell me what privileges I’m missing out on, because I swear to god I will exploit it.

I come across as overly confident, cocky, arrogant, but privileged? Anyone seeing that needs to see, if they can, an optometrist. The cocky-arrogant-confident thing is a learned behavior from walking in to situations way beyond my skill level. People think twice when they try their most intimidating move and you not only don’t flinch but advance. People, in general, are very open to the power of suggestion. If you act like you know what you’re doing people will assume you do. Don’t try this at home kids if you haven’t done it before or try it on someone who really likes you and will forgive you eventually. If acting were easy everyone would do it. If it were hard Schwarzenegger would only be known as the ex-governor of California. Ok, I was done a few paragraphs back. I do feel a bit guilty about neglecting this site.