Fangirls overseas with interest in US elections

[jessm78]

Many times I've felt like posting about this in my own LJ, but can never work up the courage as 99% of my flist are liberal. So I figured I'd post where people understand.

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[theidolhands]

Not silly at all. Vent away.

The most infuriating thing for me as an American was watching people literally take a day off after Obama won. If that didn't say all, I don't know what did (that and celebrating his victory with the ubiquitous f-word). The most embarrassing one was a teacher. When she tried to re-friended me out of the blue, removing me partly over this...I politely declined. Mostly because I felt one could not have an honest, multi-sided conversation.

You know people, if you'd been listening, he said, "WE can do it." As it was they seemed to think he could poop rainbows and fix the world by waving a wand. Let's just say that I felt like I did a better job listening and as such was disappointed a lot less

[jessm78]

Thanks.

Seriously?? Wow, that's... amazing. Good on you for not re-friending her. I had one person defriend me over stating my opinion. In hindsight, I don't know why I didn't defriend her before then. The show we both watched was no longer airing and we really didn't have anything to talk about amongst ourselves anymore. Plus she was a little on the unstable side... I mean, long rants in all caps about her mean boss, complete with the f-word. I just ignored them, but I should have removed her then.

It's really one of my pet peeves. When I first friended people (and vice versa), we just talked about fandom things, about the shows/movies and characters we liked. Slowly the politics entered into it. Some would talk about how "awesome" Jon Stewart or Rachel Maddow were... I'd just roll my eyes and move on. But some would act like they were itching for a fight and rant about politics.

[jdphoenix]

I feel the same all the time. I don't see much on LJ but on tumblr it's all the time and I'd say more than half the posts I see about Obama are from non-Americans. It's clear that to them he's just another celebrity to fangirl over (which, at least to me, is one of the scariest ways you can view a politician).

[jessm78]

Heh. One of my friends got me onto tumblr but I haven't had much time for it lately. I can imagine, though.

It's clear that to them he's just another celebrity to fangirl over

Absolutely. It almost makes me think of Bill Clinton performing on Arsenio Hall way back when. At least as far as non-Americans are concerned, they don't have to worry about how his policies will affect them.

[mprice]

I can't say that I have. But then, I'm very selective about who I friend, and the majority of them are either conservatives or members of my main fandom. I don't post about politics too much, but I also have right on my info page that I'm a "Right-Wing Extremist." If they can't handle that, they're more then welcome to leave.

[jessm78]

You're lucky. I generally stick to fellow conservatives or the fandom I'm currently into; any political stuff (as far as fandom friends go) ends up being a surprise. I don't usually post much about politics at all in my LJ, and especially not since the day after the last election. I ranted and despite warning people, one person picked a fight with me and ended up defriending me. I did create a filter for politics including like-minded friends, though I haven't said very much on it... mostly some posts about Obamacare.

[mprice]

My main fandom is set during the Cold War era. I don't really have to worry too much about anti-communist rants. If I were actually post any, that is.

The biggest liberal I have to put up with is my older sister. But my other siblings and I agree that she's always been out of the loop.

[theidolhands]

I just want to THANK you for making a filter for politics (or using a cut). You'd think that would be obvious. That was another thing I had to ask people to do AND I have to warn them in advance that if they want to bash and/or lump all religions together -- count me out.

Didn't miss anyone who de-friended me over stuff like that, although I was a little proud that it wasn't me who told them to get lost. No matter what you say, or how nice you say, there will always be people who don't care or don't pay attention.

[jessm78]

LOL, I got a good laugh when I saw the picture. I couldn't help thinking what Obama's (or heck even Michelle's) reaction would be if this guy ever met them and they saw this.

[jessm78]

EDIT-O-MATIC: just extrapolating a bit, I think that unfortunately, nations which are all-white or mostly-white have received the leftist message that whiteness is bad-bad-bad and diversity is mandatory, and therefore they're eager to embrace some bastardized version of minority culture, even if said minorities don't even constitute a significant presence in their population. 'Cause we can't have white Europeans celebrating their own culture, now can we? :/

Ugh. If it's one thing I can't stand, it's that "white guilt" complex, which I think is something that helped Obama get elected.

I remember during the UK elections a couple years back, a girl on my flist was complaining about the party that was anti-immigration (I can't remember the name). She kept talking about how "racist" they were.

[zansa_san]

Greg Gutfeld wrote a very ... interesting article on European racism against black people on either his Daily Gut or Bighollywood (before the site was revamped). He was talking about being in France and leaving some fancy restaurant at the same time as another (black) American tourist. There were these two slightly tipsy French girls outside who basically jumped on the black man as soon as they saw him: "Omg, you look just like Don Cheadle (or somebody)! Take your picture with us, Mr. Cheadle!" and stuff like that. Badgering him about his "work" and how "talented" he was.

Basically, the modern-day version of pointing a pistol at somebody's ankles and screeching, "Dance, dance!" :/ It was ... well, pretty pathetic on the part of the French girls, and really demeaning for the black dude, who kind of just shrugged it off. They just couldn't fathom that he wasn't some famous black guy because he looked just like him. -_-''