If a plane crashed down, food was lost and you wanted to survive, do you eat the retards first or the people healthiest of mind?
Now now dear readers, do have the courtesy to hold your comments until the end of the post, Krampus is going somewhere with this. I mean, you don't want to be like some idiots aspiring to be invertebrate plague carriers taking words completely out of context, do you? No? Good. Now kindly shut the fuck up and keep reading!
I mean, it's a simple question, isn't it? We all wonder about life, death, the work one's ancestors put in to achieve your place on the food chain. Deep down inside all of us, some deeper or more shallow than others, is an instinct, a need for survival, a need to adapt to dangerous situations. And let's be fair and honest, some are better equipped to survive than others. There have always been lesser people, stragglers more easily picked off amongst the herd, the slack and chaff that some would allow, or insist, that they fall so the herd, or more capable members within the herd will survive another day. So let's talk about the crash example again, and what to do for food. Who would you slay and eat if need be? Would you go for the weaker, the genetically inferior? I dunno, if you eat a 'tard, don't you run the risk of becoming one too, kinda like Mad Cow Disease? Or would you go after someone that you genuinely disliked or hated, devouring their flesh and their power like Mana as the Maori Warriors once did? OOoh, here's one. What if somehow you could overpower one of the healthier people, yet it combined all of the above? What if it was someone that was a decent physical specimen so you have all the nourishment issues covered, someone who acted in a way you disliked, and what if there was a possibility that due to their actions and possible insanity, you'd actually be putting someone fitting the criteria out of their misery? It makes sense after all, that guy over there enjoys getting his nuts kicked in and can't tell a raccoon from a bear. It's not like he'd be missed, right? Sorry Tothian, nothing personal. But on this crash site, Krampus is a survivor. Now get in my belly and fertilize my crops in twelve hours!
Ladies and gentlemen, the above was a dramatization. I of course mean no ill will to crash survivors, the mentally retarded or impaired, the physically handicapped, people that simply annoy me and believing that they deserve to die because of it, nor to Tothian. But I wrote it to make a point. You see, recently it has come to my attention that Tothian has stated that the mentally challenged should be dispatched, I could be mistaken but I believe he said drowned, to save them from the pains of living in a life that they would be at a lifelong disadvantage otherwise. I also believe this was addressed to a member on the RLSH board, Wildcat.
I'll be honest, Wildcat has messaged me several times, speaking like a child and running the risk of being so sweet as her very presence online could give someone cavities and risk of a diabetic coma. I have no wish to befriend or speak to the woman, in my personal opinion I'd have little to speak to her about, and she tends to be clingy to people on the forum. I want nothing to do with her. With that said, I don't believe the girl warrants a smartass comment that she and everyone like her should be euthanized. That which you speak of smacks of Nazi Eugenic cleansing. And Krampus is NO friend of anyone or anything Nazi.
Recently Dreizehn, someone who's threatened the body parts of Krampus on more than one occasion, spoke out about this outrage, leading Tothian to be suspended from the forum for one week, causing Superhero to egress in protest, and I believe another, but may be back now. She spoke of challenging the administrators on this action, and in doing so has been banned as well. I may not agree with her exact words or how she went about it, but she addressed a bullying remark, and stood up in the face of the one who said it, and those who she felt didn't do enough to deal with the problem. That I admire. Krampus knows firsthand that truth isn't always pretty, it can be disturbing, vulgar, even downright hideous. It can enflame one's sensibilities and soul, stirring one to action because if it hurts in just the right spot, then maybe something will be done about it. Krampus has done this in the past, and to be honest, has felt as of late as may be becoming a tad bit rusty.
I don't agree with everything that has gone on recently in the community. The rushing to defend people whose banner has inspired harassing, and potentially criminal activity when they refuse to acknowledge that anything they do or have done is wrong, the stepping around on eggshells for fear of escalating hostilities. 'Twould even seem that attempts to do just that have instead acted as pouring water on an oil fire, it's only splashed and spread. And now this debacle? At the very least Tothian, hate someone for the nature of their actions and character and not their genetics. Nor their deficiencies.
Tothian, I won't lie to you. My respect for you has dropped somewhat because of your statement. I believe that your heart may be in the right place, but it's thoughts and words like the ones you've used that others have easily turned into desire and acting upon them. Krampus came into this community to keep an eye on and call out bullies, harassing those who did not deserve it. As of right now, in my eyes you're barely better than any member of ROACH or their allies. And worse, you've given them ammunition to claim they've been right about your instability and how dangerous you are, the very words they've said about you and others all along! In your standings, you're becoming the very thing you're supposed to fight against! Do these words have ANY impact on you? What hurts more, the sanctioning, the words I say, the reactions of your peers, the fact that you're proving someone on the other side of the fence as correct? Damn you idiot, you've given them validity to their bile and turned some who have defended and stood beside you against you, or away from you at least.
Despite it all, I do believe that your heart can be in the right place, and good can be done. But if you want back the respect you once had, you have to earn it back from here on. I suggest you get started, you've got a lengthy trip.
That's another thing that's been stuck in my craw for some time. Krampus has given leniency to some that I've not agreed with, but chalking it up to one's eccentricities. Master Legend's comments about homosexuals, Tothian's words to the mentally challenged, and those whose continued verbal toxins being spewed against those I know and feel strongly for as if a demonic case of Tourette's Syndrome has infected them. For the sake of peace, of understanding, attempts have been made to reach out, to understand, to try to keep a modicum of peace. But in my honest opinion, it seems that some do not want peace. Some simply look for an excuse to unleash their energies, their venoms, their anger, their hatred. This is something Krampus knows all too well. And since we're expressing ourselves at risk of being ostracized or disliked by our peers, perhaps it's time to speak mine.
From the very beginning of Krampus' existence in the blogosphere and community, I knew that one day through word or action, I would say or perform an action so polarizing, that many of you whom I would call acquaintance, listener, or even friend, would find yourselves bewildered, having to face where they stand in relation to where I stand, and not only would friendships be strained, but possibly lost, perhaps even turning the focus of the RLSH community against me. That's right folks, I knew that in the process of stating my own truth and opinion, friends may be lost because of what I believe to be right. I believed that the day would come later. Perhaps it will come now, who knows. But now is the time for such a truth.
Hero, villain, stranger, friend, the title doesn't matter. I don't care who you are, what side of the fence you may be on, if you are known to me or unknown. Krampus will NOT allow ANYONE to attack anyone I call friend without defending them, possibly with reprisal. If you're one friend and have a beef with another, then it's between you two. But if the actions of one threatens to harm another, no, that's not going to happen on my watch. Trying to talk, to parley and find a peaceful solution is good, it's admirable to stop confrontation without violence. But sometimes, and I was recently reminded of this, sometimes the fight comes to you. Sometimes you can't reason with it, you can't run from it, and help may not be coming as fast as one would hope. If you see something wrong that threatens to oppress or harm you or another, stranger or friend, sometimes you have to stand up to face it. You have to hold your ground and tell the threat, the circumstance, the person or persons that threaten to crash into you like a wave who you are, the strength of your character and declare it to all in the universe that you're not going to be demeaned, belittled, walked upon and treated as if you do not exist nor matter. Sometimes you have to take a stand.
Words, threats, fists, weapons, sometimes you can ignore them. Other times, one must rise against what they perceive to be a wrong. Dreizehn did it, it may not have been the same way I'd have handled it, but she stood up. And it's the strength of one's character and resolve I acknowledge and respect. It's why I respect DC's Guardian and his ilk so strongly. And I know for a fact that many of you reading this have to take hard stands as well, I know it hasn't always been easy! But if you look back, can you look at yourselves in honesty and say that if you didn't stand the way you did at a certain place or time, then you'd never have the strength of character to stand for anything you'd believe in? Have you had that defining moment where you stood up to something because you didn't agree with it?
I have gay friends, it's not my choice or preference but I accept my friends for who they are. Master Legend has said some disparaging remarks against those in the gay community, but I try to see someone who has their heart in the right place and tries to do good, so I don't give power to his words. But if someone physically threatened my friend with harm, standing in front of me and I were the only one between them and my friends possibly facing a hate crime, I don't care if it were someone in a suit, a skinhead or KKK member, someone that resembled Master Legend or someone in an official uniform, if they're going to attack someone who did nothing to provoke such an attack, I'm standing up to them. I may be hurt, crippled, arrested or even killed, but I'm making the stand. The same goes for any ROACH member or ally with Skiffytowners behind me, or someone that looks like Tothian in front of me and someone that looks like Wildcat or Corky from Life Goes On behind me. THIS WILL NOT GO WITHOUT A STAND. I;d rather not have to fight, Tothian we were getting a bit casually chummy and I'm not even Wildcat's friend. But if you want to call yourself my friend, start earning my respect back. Otherwise if you become the thug that others claim you to be and you have someone undeserving in your crosshairs, I WILL stand against you and anyone that behaves like a danger to others. And Krampus is capable of reciprocating with interest, no one wants to be on the receiving end of the wrath of someone who at times has been suicidal and raging against you as a perceived threat. If any of you takes something away from this, know that peace can be a good thing to fight for. But sometimes, you may have to actually fight for something. Or someone.
Show me where you stand.
