Giant Freakin' Coincidences

[brigdh]

The racist asshole who I got into a fight with last quarter is now living in my building! I rode the elevator up with him coming home just now.

People! I am not well-adjusted enough to live in the same building as him. Every single time I see him I am filled with the overwhelming urge to say deliberately provocative things and I can only manage not to by keeping my mouth completely shut. Which leads to a lot of me humming thoughtfully and staring at the wall, because I also can't even look at him without hate.

Though hey, speaking of this guy, the writers' student group I met him through is now under my control. The previous president had to go to Japan for a quarter, and when the choice to pass power on came down to him or me, despite the fact I'd only been to six or so meetings, the answer was obvious. Maybe it's because when you say things like 'black people are worthless', people have a hard time trusting you! God, what a shock!

Comments

Bzuh?

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

There's no black people in the writing group?

Re: Bzuh?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No. But then there's, like, four people in the writing group.

You should come! I bet he'd be too scared to say anything if there was actually a black person there.

Re: Bzuh?

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

He probably won't think I'm black.

Five'll get you ten he thinks I'm either Indian or... *gasp* MIDDLE EASTERN.

Re: Bzuh?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

He has a serious hate on for Muslims, too. It might be worse if he thinks you're Middle Eastern.

Re: Bzuh?

[shes-unreal.livejournal.com]

Yeah that's what I figured. Most people looking at me will guess I'm Hispanic, ME or Indian... except for Indians... they know better.

I had wanted to come to that group anyway. I need to improve my writing skillz, yo.

Re: Bzuh?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I witnessed rants so far about both Muslims and blacks, as well as some subtle implications about gays, but I can't say who else he hates. Probably everyone, of course, except straight white males, but at least I haven't had the chance to hear his theories about other groups yet. So, basically, he's guaranteed to dislike you no matter what he assumes.

Come! It's fun. We mostly just sit around and talk.

[hasu.livejournal.com]

What is with this asshat? How has he honestly managed to get this far in his life without someone wringing his scrawny little bigoted neck? -_-;;

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

God, seriously. And it's not like he even has the excuse of being a freshman fresh off the farm, where at least it's theoretically possible he might have never met anyone who disagreed with such views.

But no. He's a fifth-year senior. Presumably he has been living here in our major, diverse, "top city in the country for black families" city for at least those years. How has he never managed to see one thing to make him change his opinions? How has no one taken him in a back alley and fucked him up?

Mysteries of the universe!

[hasu.livejournal.com]

What I want to know is where he got such outdated racist ideas in the first place. o_O Do people really still believe that crap?

BWAH?! A fifth-year senior?! O_O I can't wrap my mind around that. He should know better. >_<

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I wish I knew. Or- no. I don't really care where he got it from, or why, or how it possibly manages to survive while he interacts with the real world. I just wish he would shut up and stay away from me, and from the rest of humanity, who he can only infect with his views at best, and cause hurt and pain to at worst.

And see, this is why I'm not well-adjusted enough to have him living near me. I should be rational and say, "Whatever, as long as he doesn't bring it up around me, I don't need to have a problem", but rage, yo. I have rage.

[hasu.livejournal.com]

You may say you're not well-adjusted but compared to me, you're a saint. I would not have anywhere near the patience you've shown. The first time he opened his mouth I would have been "IDIOT!! RAWR~! *maim, kill*" I have no tolerance whatsoever for such arrogant stupidity. -_-

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Normally I'm inclined to just let stupid people be stupid, because they're hurting themselves more than anyone else, and reality will step in soon enough and knock them up, and because I have no desire to force everyone to conform to my expectations of appropriate human behavior.

But the fact that I can't let this guy go disturbs me. Argh! Not only is he an idiot, but now he's disrupting my zen. And I keep thinking that I wouldn't do this to anyone else. I wouldn't rub someone's politics or religion or opinions in their face just because I disagreed with them. I am reacting on an entirely not rational level to the whole thing, and I'm aware of it, but I can't stop it.

[b-hallward.livejournal.com]

The longer I live, the more I'm convinced that what life is really missing is a smite button. And racists? Totally smote.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Man, a smite button would be awesome.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

Wow, I missed the original story, and now I'm as sorry as you were that you didn't get to hit him in the first place.

Two weeks ago, I'd have added that I was completely weirded out by the fact that he was the one who was insisting on having the conversation, even though he must have known that it wasn't going to win him friends. But this week, I can shrug and figure that he's angling for a spot at the Washington Post's online operation. After all, some utterly unqualified person has to replace their last unqualified racist blogger. Right?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It is strange that he's so blatant about it. I've yet to have a conversation with him where he doesn't allude to it in some way, if not bringing it up directly, but I can't imagine that he acts like that everywhere. Surely he couldn't get away with being so deliberately, outright racist in a class? At work?

Maybe it is all about the blogging job. I have a hard time imagining him in any career that would require him to think, after all.

[katsue_fox]

Ugh, not what you need. ^^;; I wonder what the best way to deal with bigots like him is?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I think it's just to ignore them unless they force you to deal with it, at which point you should just say calmly, "I'd really prefer not to talk about this".

Unfortunately, that's so not what I want to do. But I'm thinking my instincts are really not the healthy reaction.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

His current WIP is a science-fiction-like piece about a guy from our time who somehow gets sent to the future, where he finds civilization in a state of total collapse and war, and all the good guys dedicated to fighting the evil Muslims. I WISH I WAS KIDDING.

Also, apparently he's basing the main character off the guy from Evil Dead (I don't know who, I've never seen the movie, and I don't think it's quite enough to really count as fanfiction), but I did get to overhear a conversation with another fan of the movie over whether it'd be in-character for him to be a racist.