Friday 14 August 2009

I’ve just visited a website, and was offended by it.

After listening to an episode of CoMutany (Scottish Gaming Podcast) last night I was shown the following link, http://www.thinkb4youspeak.com/TheCampaign/ and it offended me.

The campaign is ‘Think b 4 you speak’ oddly enough using a ‘4’ not a ‘before’ maybe they should have had a long think before registering that URL.

I am NOT homophobic or racist and when I really think about it I have no hate directed to any single group. As far as I am concerned ‘it’s all good’ I just don’t care about some ones religion, skin colour, culture or sexual preference.

When I say I don’t care, that’s not right. I am interested in people, and would love to learn more about people’s lives and beliefs. Ignoring people differences is in many cases just rude. It is good to learn, talk, share, cooperate.

So when I visited the above link I was confused, because the site seams to want people to hate gamers, cheerleaders and Jocks. I assume from the wording that the site has an American origin, and maybe there is a cultural difference I am unaware of, but this seams wrong on many levels.

Their posters make little sense and as far as I can tell ignore the real issue. It seams to say that its okay to hate Gamers, Jocks, Cheerleaders as long as you are leaving gay people alone.


Maybe they should rethink their posters and replace it with something that discourages hate no matter who it is directed to.

Don’t fall for this its social engineering at its finest. They defend one persecuted minority by highlighting others as potential targets. Its not right.

Monday 10 August 2009

David Bellamy and Vampires, sort of.

Some personal problems are making the next RHE episode late, I am very sorry about this but I’ll tell you know the theme is ‘the history of Vampirism’ as we wanted to diversify, the episode after that will be far sooner and will cover a topic that David Bellamy is quite well informed on.