Rap music is bad

Today in my philosophy class we were shown an article on the fallout of hip-hop. The argument is that rap (if there's a difference between hip-hop and rap, I apologize) is becoming a misogynist, murder-supporting, ill-educated vendetta against the better values America possesses.
So hooray! Country music depresses people to suicide, and the blues break up marriages.
We were asked what we thought, and the consensus seemed to be that yes, rap is now a money-driven business, that yes, it promotes "bad things", and doesn't really help anyone.
This was a "good" response.
We were then asked if we were willing to make a stand against this bad thing. We wondered what in the flying frog brigade we were supposed to do about it.
Rosa Parks.
Yup, that was our answer. If it hadn't been for Rosa Parks single act of defiance, the struggle for civil rights just wouldn't have happened the same.
That meant nothing to me. Rosa Parks had all the right in the world to go against intolerance and degradation. She was forced to choose.
And us? We don't like violence, we seldom eat babies or small people, we aren't woman-hating, and we aren't about to make a stand. This is the same class that promoted open-mindedness towards gays, racists, and every sort of free speech out there. No, we won't make a stand; there's no sense to it. It's as if we were asked to say that yes, "this is wrong", and talk it down, but ignore every other aspect of intolerance and free speech. It's a complete lie. The point is always going to be moot. If people want to do something, then they're going to.
To argue about the right to argue is stupid, we should argue about better things... like uh... truth, justice, and uh, well, pizza.

Too short to ride this ride

Everybody should get a blog. Then they (everyone of those everybody's) should pack computers with them and show people just what goes on in their blogs. For instance, if you start a blog, get called on the fact that you got the idea from someone else, and then argue that "they're nothing alike, mine's pink", then everyone can instantly know what a true genius you are. In the small town I'm kept hostage in, there are three tyes of people: grown-ups, seniors, and other high school people. Just below people there are fruit trees, grass, and moths. Under that still you'll find 8th graders. They're so small! You'd need to stack them on top of each other five high to reach a normal high school height.
Ah... forgive me. This all goes back to a nifty post I saw today, which can be found here: http://www.thesecrazylies.blogspot.com/

Actually, it's not just one post that's dumb, it's the whole thing.

I think it's rather terrifying.

The initial disclaimer

THIS WILL PREDOMINANTLY BE SATIRE. If I make some good points here and there, then hooray (!), it's probably a tragic mistake of some sort: you can assume something has gone horribly wrong.

I claim no political affiliation.

I do not claim to know everything.

Abortion!

Are unborn babies alive? Are they even human? And if they aren't human, are they a vegetable or mineral? Can we eat them? Jonathan Swift said we could eat babies after they were born, so I'm sure it's ok. If the right to choose already exists, then why are there still huge promoters of the cause? I've walked into a Democratic booth before, and been immediately asked "where do you stand on the woman's right to choose?" Just where should I stand? Women have the right to abortion, that's not something I can change. Any time you try, you get called a sexist conservative prick. Odd, for people still trying to rally support for their won cause.

I've noticed in my short time on Earth that if you talk to some people about abortion, they tend to stick to two repetitious questions: "What about rape?" and "What if it's to save the mother?"

Fuggin stupid questions. Less than nine percent of all abortions, counting incest (!), fall into that category. If those must be preserved, then let them.

I've decided that getting rid of abortion as an option would be a massively good thing for America (not Africa, this is also a stupid argument: "what about in Africa with all the STD's?").
If you had to actually take care of your choices (some people call them kids, not to be confused with babies, you aren't allowed to eat kids) then you'd be much more likely to use protection,
and do crazy things like think before you drank. This would massively slow down the spread of STD's. It would be a much more efficient system, and just think; if women weren't pregnant, they wouldn't need their "right to choose", so there wouldn't be such big arguments that ignore the real question: Should poker be an Olympic sport?.

It's a win-win situation!

Vote for Ben in 2008!