{"id":740,"date":"2001-01-11T10:38:50","date_gmt":"2001-01-11T10:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2001\/01\/11\/like-so-many-nice-ideas-drowning-in-stupidity\/"},"modified":"2001-01-11T10:38:50","modified_gmt":"2001-01-11T10:38:50","slug":"like-so-many-nice-ideas-drowning-in-stupidity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2001\/01\/11\/like-so-many-nice-ideas-drowning-in-stupidity\/","title":{"rendered":"like so many nice ideas – drowning in stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"

like so many nice ideas<\/u><\/b> – drowning in stupidity<\/p>\n

Let’s talk about this silliness on MTV. FightForYourRights.MTV.com<\/a>
\nis the website of course. However, on the actual channel is a completely boring
\nscreen of text – a lot like the "learn to read" programs on in the
\nearly morning that have
Famous
\nAmos<\/a> on them. In addition to the lame screen there are monotonous voices
\nreading what seem to be an endless series of "hate crime" stories.<\/p>\n

I suppose I am supposed to be impressed. It’s edgy or something.<\/p>\n

About every 3 minutes or so another monotonous voice comes on to tell me that
\n"Hate crimes begin with discrimination" and that I should let MTV
\ncontact my president elect (that would be Bush by the way ::smirk::) and let
\nthem tell him the earth shattering news that discrimination is probably a bad
\nthing. <\/p>\n

I am sure this will come as a shock to him.<\/p>\n

Of course, anyone who really thinks about it will probably conclude that
\ntheir solution – radically expanding the scope and type of ‘hate crimes’ in our
\njudicial system. I don’t really understand the idea of a hate crime.<\/p>\n

Somehow, beating up an old woman because she might have $5 is a much more
\nmoral act than beating her up because she is a minority? <\/p>\n

Let’s reverse this for a moment. Let’s say we pass a law that beating up
\nwhite Catholics is worth an extra 10 years in prison – how well do you think that<\/i><\/b>
\nwould go over?<\/p>\n

Oh, the ‘hate crimes’ in question are apparently unsubstantiated reports of
\ncrimes that have the word "allegedly" in them so often you wonder if
\nany of it really happened.<\/p>\n

In one "hate crime" a Hispanic was threatened and slurred as he was
\ntrying to move his car fromt he front lawn of the house he had parked it on the
\nnight before while drunk.<\/p>\n

Read that again. The front lawn<\/i><\/b>. So some drunk idiot parks his
\ncar on your lawn, and in the morning as you scream at each other you call him a
\nname. He is a hero now and your a hate monger.<\/p>\n

Amazing. Simply baffling.<\/p>\n

Ah well, that covers it. Let me recap.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Hate is bad<\/li>\n
  2. Legislating thoughtcrime<\/i><\/b> is inherently bad and stupid<\/li>\n
  3. MTV’s sense of style is totally shot<\/li>\n
  4. MTV is so pretentious it hurts<\/li>\n
  5. Most of those who look to MTV as a political force need their heads examined<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    like so many nice ideas – drowning in stupidity Let’s talk about this silliness on MTV. FightForYourRights.MTV.com is the website of course. However, on the actual channel is a completely boring screen of text – a lot like the "learn to read" programs on in the early morning that have Famous Amos on them. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}