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Loudmouth little bitch
Sep. 2nd, 2010 05:39 pmAnd proud of it, considering the source.
I went to $Big_Box_Bakery for lunch today. Standing a few people behind me in line were some dudes speaking Farsi. Many moons ago, while sharing a drunken stupor and a post-Crystal's-wedding hotel suite with Smack, I asked him how to say Please and Thank you in Farsi. I could not reproduce the bizarre sounds, because I'm convinced that ancient Persians were part bird, but I remember what they sound like. Sort of. Through the haze of that drunken stupor. So, really, the dudes could have been speaking Macedonian, but since I think that's officially a dead language, I'm pegging it as Farsi. They were tall, stocky, cute, had great hair, and were dressed like your average, everyday worker bee. One of them had a small gold cross necklace on. I note religious iconography out of habit - never know when you might need to snatch something off a neck to repel an attacking vampire with.
Anyway. Three people in front of me was a dude speaking a dialect of English that I will call 'Redneck Racist Republican Bullshit' R3B for short. He spotted the Farsi hotness behind me and struck up a loud, meant-to-be-overheard conversation with the guy behind him. It immediately validated my identification of his dialect.
Muslims are bad, y'all, and it's up to every American to do something about terrorists. Etc blah blah blah racist bullshit, while glaring at the Farsi-speaking dudes. The dude behind R3B was trying to sink through the floor. Not answering, looking very uncomfortable as R3B got louder and more assholish as he was ignored.
So I stopped ignoring him. I caught the attention of a worker bee behind the counter and asked her to go get a manager. When the manager showed up, I loudly piped up with, "Show of hands - everyone who thinks the hate-filled bigot should be refused service and escorted out?"
The entire line - about 30 people by this time - raised hands, clapped, and cheered.
R3B was unamused and called me a loudmouthed little bitch, suggested I shut the fuck up and mind my own business. The manager then firmly but politely told him to get the hell out. There was more clapping and cheering, which more or less drowned out whatever R3B was shouting. He left, flipping us all off and calling us names and, woe, saying he'd never eat at that store again. I'm sure they'll miss his $10.
The fact that Glen Beck and his intolerant ilk have not received the mother of all deific smitings is making me seriously consider atheism. If there were any sort of god paying even a little attention, that man's tongue should wither, turn black, and fall out of his mouth. Preferably live on the air. His little public masturbatory session has sent all sorts of little bubbles of hate floating to the surface. That shit does not belong in my state. That shit does not belong in this country.
R3B's unwilling conversation partner bought me a cookie. Zod is pleased.
I'm still just baffled. How dumb do ya gotta be to not know that a dude wearing a cross is, by evidence, not Muslim? Duh.
I leave you with this, because these lyrics are becoming more and more fucking appropriate:
PWEI - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Listen to the victim, abused by the system
The basis is racist, you know that we must face this
"It can't happen here". Oh yeah?
"Take a look around at the cities and the towns."
See them hunting, creeping, sneaking
Breeding fear and loathing with the lies they're speaking
The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb
There is no future when the past soon come
And when they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives
Trampled underfoot by the right on the rise
Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Welcome to a state where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down."
There's a rising tide on the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence
If they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Trampled underfoot by the rise of the right.
I went to $Big_Box_Bakery for lunch today. Standing a few people behind me in line were some dudes speaking Farsi. Many moons ago, while sharing a drunken stupor and a post-Crystal's-wedding hotel suite with Smack, I asked him how to say Please and Thank you in Farsi. I could not reproduce the bizarre sounds, because I'm convinced that ancient Persians were part bird, but I remember what they sound like. Sort of. Through the haze of that drunken stupor. So, really, the dudes could have been speaking Macedonian, but since I think that's officially a dead language, I'm pegging it as Farsi. They were tall, stocky, cute, had great hair, and were dressed like your average, everyday worker bee. One of them had a small gold cross necklace on. I note religious iconography out of habit - never know when you might need to snatch something off a neck to repel an attacking vampire with.
Anyway. Three people in front of me was a dude speaking a dialect of English that I will call 'Redneck Racist Republican Bullshit' R3B for short. He spotted the Farsi hotness behind me and struck up a loud, meant-to-be-overheard conversation with the guy behind him. It immediately validated my identification of his dialect.
Muslims are bad, y'all, and it's up to every American to do something about terrorists. Etc blah blah blah racist bullshit, while glaring at the Farsi-speaking dudes. The dude behind R3B was trying to sink through the floor. Not answering, looking very uncomfortable as R3B got louder and more assholish as he was ignored.
So I stopped ignoring him. I caught the attention of a worker bee behind the counter and asked her to go get a manager. When the manager showed up, I loudly piped up with, "Show of hands - everyone who thinks the hate-filled bigot should be refused service and escorted out?"
The entire line - about 30 people by this time - raised hands, clapped, and cheered.
R3B was unamused and called me a loudmouthed little bitch, suggested I shut the fuck up and mind my own business. The manager then firmly but politely told him to get the hell out. There was more clapping and cheering, which more or less drowned out whatever R3B was shouting. He left, flipping us all off and calling us names and, woe, saying he'd never eat at that store again. I'm sure they'll miss his $10.
The fact that Glen Beck and his intolerant ilk have not received the mother of all deific smitings is making me seriously consider atheism. If there were any sort of god paying even a little attention, that man's tongue should wither, turn black, and fall out of his mouth. Preferably live on the air. His little public masturbatory session has sent all sorts of little bubbles of hate floating to the surface. That shit does not belong in my state. That shit does not belong in this country.
R3B's unwilling conversation partner bought me a cookie. Zod is pleased.
I'm still just baffled. How dumb do ya gotta be to not know that a dude wearing a cross is, by evidence, not Muslim? Duh.
I leave you with this, because these lyrics are becoming more and more fucking appropriate:
PWEI - Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Listen to the victim, abused by the system
The basis is racist, you know that we must face this
"It can't happen here". Oh yeah?
"Take a look around at the cities and the towns."
See them hunting, creeping, sneaking
Breeding fear and loathing with the lies they're speaking
The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb
There is no future when the past soon come
And when they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Or laugh through a glass eye as they rape our lives
Trampled underfoot by the right on the rise
Ich Bin Ein Auslander
Welcome to a state where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down."
There's a rising tide on the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence
If they come to ethnically cleanse me
Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Freedom of expression doesn't make it alright
Trampled underfoot by the rise of the right.
