Let's file this one under "why must ignorance run so rampant?"
I
don't do Tumblr, in fact, I don't even know what it's about really, and
I'm just as uniformed of Pinterest. Google+, and just about all other
social media sites sweeping the internetz. I'm generally okay with
that, as it takes a lot of energy just to keep up with Facebook memes of
kitties and my social-angst-driven Twitter feed, but I gathered today
that I miss some things by not being more involved with other social
media.
For instance, my friend Gail At Large found and tweeted this Tumblr
of just monstrous ignorance on display. A Hispanic artist with some
crossover success and a strong following in the Caribbean countries that
supply a large percentage of players to the modern ranks of the Major
League Baseball, Marc Anthony was invited to sing God Bless America
at yesterday's All-Star game. Marc Anthony is New York born and raised
to Puerto Rican parents. Puerto Rico is an American Territory. So
he's pretty much got this whole being-Americanthing down pat.
The
part my brain has the most trouble processing isn't the racism itself;
it's ugly, incomprehensible and inexcusable in and of itself, and I
don't think I need to beat that dead horse any more than I already
have. No, the part that I can't understand is this: how is it possible
that, in the age of the internet, wi-fi capable smartphones, and Google
or Bing or Yahoo, someone has the time to tweet his or her dislike of a
person of Hispanic descent for not being 'Murican, and yet not have the
time to Google the guy and find out that he is 100% American, just like
them? Really, internet? Really?
So these people get a
big old Gold Star for displays of ignorance, not once because of the
hate-filled racist garbage they spewed, but TWICE because their displays
of ignorance could have appeared "smarter" with just one wee-widdo,
teeny-tiny search on the internet.
Folks, NOFX called it in 2003, and it's just as true today...Idiots are taking over.
A cure for stupidity...
...Wish you were here.
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