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- From: youngj4@vccnw14.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey 'Taldin' Young)
- Subject: The Difference Injure, II
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- Organization: Rendslayer Pullyourchainticked Institute, Troy, NY
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:09:01 GMT
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- Taldin wanders back in, disgruntled. "A whole TABLE of them, now."
- *shakes his head* "I was at dinner, on the line, and I had a whole
- bunch of them whistling at me, to which I made no notice whatsoever.
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- He sighs. "I'm not encouraging them. I'm not even looking. I've
- said something all of thrice. All year. They're their own encouragement.
- The problem is, there are lots of them. They think it's funny.
- I'm not going to change."
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- "I remember a friend of mine back in high school- somewhere in his
- sophmore year he used a bow as a sign of respect. Since he was
- Indian, this was nothing wrong in his book. But those people who
- saw it differently came to expect it from him, and I don't know
- whether he saw them ridiculing his beliefs or not, but it
- sickened me hearing them asking him to bow for them before even
- a greeting. I am NOT gonna give them that opening. I am not going
- to acknowledge that their image of me I even *marginally* accept."
-
- He nods. "I acknowledge that height and strength isn't going to help
- me, either, being the non-violent type. A slip on my part, but
- a one of feeling helpless to stop the jibes. And they AREN'T trying
- to be friendly. If they were, they'd say, 'Did you know you look like
- Robin Hood?' Not, 'Robin Hood!' raucously. Wonder where I got the points
- of Bad Stuff I seem to have now. And as an empath, I think I am
- a well enough judge of who is openminded enough to be corrected. I recall
- now that these would be the people who I stopped visiting my old
- high school because- or rather, a generation of people who grew up in
- the 'me' continuum and have egoes like their left boot. Do I have
- the right to judge them as a group? YES. Because they're judging me
- as a group. Because not one of them has the heart or mind t'think that
- maybe I'm ignoring them because it hurts. I don't like being the
- source of someone else's jokes. Which is why I don't like comedians
- who use racial jokes as their prime source of yuks. Whatever happened
- to 'respect your fellow human?'
-
- oh. maybe it's because I'm not human. :P
-
- He sighs. "13 more school days, plus 5 more for finals. Plus 3 or 4
- weekends. 26 days. That's all. And then they'll never see me
- again unless I come visiting, which I doubt highly. Stupid people
- shouldn't breed. Sigh.
-
- Sudrith noses the young man consolingly.
- << Brave heart, Taldin. >>
-
- Taldin and Suds.
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