I thought February was bad enough, now I have to be bothered with other cultures in September too?

9/15/2008 10:59:00 PM

ARGH

9/15/2008 10:59:14 PM

STFU

9/15/2008 10:59:32 PM

Seriously, was it just invented this year? I've never heard of it before but they have mentioned it like 30 times on MNF.

9/15/2008 11:01:00 PM

MNF...

9/15/2008 11:02:50 PM

Monday Night Football, I don't know why they care but they keep bringing it up and have been showing clips from the Spanish broadcast.

9/15/2008 11:04:12 PM

WE NEED A CAUCASIAN MONTH!

9/15/2008 11:04:54 PM

Can't have caucasian things. That would be racist.

9/15/2008 11:06:28 PM

I'd rather we just stop dedicating months to shit.

Look guys, it's Safety Preparedness Awareness Overly Cautious Paranoia month! Stock up on your plastic wrap and duct tape!

Oh wait now we care about this demographic. And now this one. And now we like the world this month, and then we like this demographic this month, and this month is dedicated to scat porn and blahblahblah. Shit's too complicated.

9/15/2008 11:08:02 PM

Scat porn month might be interesting.

9/15/2008 11:08:55 PM

nice

way to equate latino heritage with a paraphilia

you guys are fucking monsters

9/15/2008 11:38:47 PM

Maybe if other cultures weren't so inferior to ours we wouldn't have to give them pity months so they don't feel so bad.

9/15/2008 11:40:59 PM

Nobody gives a shit, snewf. I'm equating it to pointless bullshit that doesn't interest me, because naming a month "so and so month" generally seems to be a meaningless gesture aimed at pleasing some small portion of the general public in some way or the other. I equate its usefulness to that of a candlelight vigil which we hold every time a white girl who knows more than 300 people (and has boobs and a nice face) dies.

Also, I am the fucking monster here. Because having months dedicated to minorities seems like a lousy PR move that makes politicians wet their pants with anticipation. Oh boy, we can please this minority group and claim this month in the name of the Republicrats and live on forever in e-fame on wikipedia! Then they will all see that only the republicrats truly care about their special interests (which are different from the rest of the populace, clearly) and they'll vote for us in the next erection!

Pandering is pandering is bullshit.

[Edited on September 15, 2008 at 11:49 PM. Reason : ]

9/15/2008 11:43:23 PM

^ I agree vigils are retarded too.

9/15/2008 11:48:37 PM

And I'm not dissing candlelight vigils. For spiritual and religious purposes it's nice for a community to show support for a family/loved neighbor/somebody by holding such a vigil. When tens of thousands of people do it because some event was perpetuated by the news media nationwide, and people do such a thing even though they don't know said person/family, it waters down the meaning behind having such a vigil. About as meaningless as spending $1 and getting a livestrong bracelet. Go donate $20 to a cause instead and don't go wearing a bracelet on your arm with a shit-eating grin on your face like it means you care.

There's a number of things I'm grumpy about like this. I'm like one of those people on the internet.

9/15/2008 11:53:02 PM

a-fuckin-men brother

there are people who talk

and people who get shit done

9/16/2008 10:22:59 AM

so black history month is bad
latino month is bad

but you motherfuckers love talk like a pirate week

9/16/2008 10:24:29 AM

awesome random post by the Hova

9/16/2008 10:26:33 AM

yep, it's latinp appreciation week at work

9/16/2008 10:30:04 AM

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"Can't have caucasian things. That would be racist."

Every month since this country has been founded has been "Caucasian month" you dumb piece of shit

9/16/2008 10:34:45 AM

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9/16/2008 10:35:36 AM

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"so black history month is bad latino month is bad but you motherfuckers love talk like a pirate week"

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9/16/2008 10:40:30 AM

Border hopping at it's finest

9/16/2008 10:42:24 AM

The lack of an "India Month" (dots not feathers) tells me that we, as a group, don't need cultural handouts as a contrived means of positive awareness.

9/16/2008 10:44:36 AM

dude

there was a 'rican parade where i live last weekend.

yeah

9/16/2008 10:45:18 AM

What's the deal with a Puerto Rican Day Parade?

9/16/2008 10:47:39 AM

id rather people drop their personal culture and all be one culture of people who get along

9/16/2008 10:51:43 AM

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"The lack of an "India Month" (dots not feathers) tells me that we, as a group, don't need cultural handouts as a contrived means of positive awareness."

You're kidding right? Yeah, you're kidding.

Whew, I'm so glad you're kidding and aren't really a huge piece of shit.

9/16/2008 10:57:11 AM

call me a piece of shit all you want

but i think all these cultural "months" are incredibly lame.

9/16/2008 11:06:57 AM

Of course you would, you take all of your opinions straight out of the Bigoted White Christian Peckerwood Annual

9/16/2008 11:07:59 AM

I can't focus on anything for a month. Make it like a day or even a weekend and I'll try to take notice.

9/16/2008 11:15:55 AM

If we were smart, we would use one of the taxpayer-funded Latino celebrations as a perfect opportunity to round up some illegals and send them home.

9/16/2008 11:20:08 AM

Conservative Bigots: "I don't see the problem here"

9/16/2008 11:23:07 AM

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"Every month since this country has been founded has been "Caucasian month" you dumb piece of shit"

.... right....

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"but i think all these cultural "months" are incredibly lame."

pretty much

what's even better is when they start pulling the most random inventions or 'notable' persons up for recognition only during the month in which their ethnic background fits...

9/16/2008 11:30:51 AM

I don't see how encouraging folks to learn more about Latino culture and history is a bad thing.

9/16/2008 11:40:04 AM

how do 20 second spots encourage or teach anything?

9/16/2008 11:41:15 AM

no tengo un probelma con un mes por los latinos

9/16/2008 11:43:43 AM

You honestly think the month has no effect? Nobody clicks on the links to lists of famous Latinos and the like?

By the way, shit's going down in Bolivia right now:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/158825/page/1

9/16/2008 11:44:06 AM

links? what?

yeah i've been following the Bolivia shit for a good while now, crap like that makes me glad i live in the US

9/16/2008 11:46:19 AM

For example:

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/hhm1.html

9/16/2008 11:49:58 AM

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"You honestly think the month has no effect? Nobody clicks on the links to lists of famous Latinos and the like?"

I don't go out of my way in any federally-sanctioned cultural awareness month/holiday to go and find links about stuff pertaining to that holiday. I don't care. Why should I care? It's not like I'm unable to stomach the thought that people of all races are capable of creating things, making history, or being significant in some way. I don't see the point in encouraging people to focus on historical figures, historical events, or great inventions in the context of the race of the person who accomplished said event/build said device/etc. It gives individuals of that race an opportunity to feel special about that month because a few TV channels are running advertisements that give you a 30 second blurb about an individual of race X who is special for so and so reason. They get to feel slightly more special when the handful of TV specials (in the relative sea of television garbage) pop on for an hour talking in more detail about people from said race. How does that spread cultural awareness?

If the government wanted to spread cultural awareness they can do it through the existing public school system by having increased standards for history education (and by dumping money into education funding to support it).

9/16/2008 12:04:13 PM

"I don't see the point in encouraging people to focus on historical figures, historical events, or great inventions in the context of the race of the person who accomplished said event/build said device/etc."
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[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 12:11 PM. Reason : .]

9/16/2008 12:09:46 PM

^ I'm not saying most people decide to learn more during the month, but I'm sure some do. That's advertising. If it didn't have effect, it wouldn't used constantly. Doesn't make the month cost effective or anything, but you shouldn't deny it.

9/16/2008 12:11:00 PM

I understand black history month because it's important cause they were oppressed and discriminated and all, but hispanic month? come on now if they don't think they are getting enough attention (and I'm sure they don't really care) they should learn the language and be citizens; it's not like we were colonized by spain

[Edited on September 16, 2008 at 12:17 PM. Reason : k]

9/16/2008 12:13:22 PM

"I understand black history month because it's important cause they were oppressed and discriminated and all, but hispanic month? come on now if they don't think they are getting enough attention (and I'm sure they don't really care) they should learn the language and be citizens"
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9/16/2008 12:16:22 PM

I like these random months. You learn new fun facts about people and cultures.

No harm in learning.

9/16/2008 12:16:46 PM

"I'm not saying most people decide to learn more during the month, but I'm sure some do. That's advertising. If it didn't have effect, it wouldn't used constantly. Doesn't make the month cost effective or anything, but you shouldn't deny it."
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9/16/2008 12:18:27 PM

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"I understand black history month because it's important cause they were oppressed and discriminated and all, but hispanic month? come on now if they don't think they are getting enough attention (and I'm sure they don't really care) they should learn the language and be citizens"

Uh, the Hispanics remain disadvantaged in this country. Many are mestizos, with considerable Amerindian blood. The United States oppressed the hell out of Amerindians historically.

9/16/2008 12:20:00 PM

If you want to celebrate Latino month you should just hire a landscape crew.

9/16/2008 12:25:12 PM

Aha, allow me to put in bold the important part of what I said, since you guys are incapable of responding to an argument.

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"I don't see the point in encouraging people to focus on historical figures, historical events, or great inventions in the context of the race of the person who accomplished said event/build said device/etc."

Are we assuming the audience for these advertisements believes that people from minority X are incapable of doing anything significant with their lives because of their race? There's no other reason to pander to their ignorance. If this were the case, we'd be better off educating people in the first place (in the public schools we're already paying for) that people of all races are capable of inventing things simply by making sure to cover all the bases as far as inventors and historical figures go. There'd then be no need to pander to masses of ignorant fools who believe race Y totally rules compared to race X because race X is filled with a bunch of flatheaded bottom-feeders that sleep with their sister.

9/16/2008 12:28:06 PM