I read his explanation and I think he meant it like, "The Civil Rights movement didn't like white people's attitudes so they fought the good fight. That's what I'm doing. I hate canon, so I'm fighting it with analogies that don't make sense and something about creative liberty and justice for all. God bless America! *waves flag*"
Yay comparisons that are really stretching it!
...Although if you try
really hard, you can relate
everything to the Civil Rights movement. Or the Holocaust. And if you're particularly skilled and really want to piss
everyone on the internet off, you'd be able to relate them to each other.
I think it's funny (besides the Civil Rights analogy) because I think he stopped after he read your examples and completely ignored the following paragraph that started with, "Point is, all too often, I see the "canon is a safety net" argument and the "canon restricts my creativity" one, but it's really not supposed to be like that unless you're not entirely confident in your use of canon" because his major argument was "canon restricts my creativity."
Oh yes. I noticed that.
Jax is mind reader. D: *tin foil hat*
Indeed I am. Incidentally, you're thinking about tacos.
Can we at least have some form of foreplay?
Okay! I still haven't
bothered to dig around to figure out figured out who Orange is, so now I have a surplus of vodka.
Edit: And crap, you tall people. =( I am very frowny today btw. I'm only 5'1 and I need help when reaching the top shelf in supermarkets.
*high fives* Napoleontine is only five feet. She's evil, she's plotting to take over the world, and she can fit into most overhead storage compartments. Screw snakes on a plane, guys.
XD I do believe he lives in England though... although that doesn't help with understanding it. =/
Yeah, if anything, it sort of makes it even more failtastic. I mean, sure, anyone could learn about the Civil Rights movement, but to fully understand it, you've really got to have a serious understanding of the American culture, something I highly doubt a teenager from England has. I mean no disrespect to the English who are reading this right now, but I can only wonder how many of you have studied the Reconstruction era extensively. Sure, the slave era was a major part of it, but the Reconstruction era
really screwed over the African-Americans, and it only built up from there.
In other words, the acts of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., may be touching, but what not too many people realize is that it wasn't just "the good fight." It was a nonviolent ending to what was
practically an unofficial war. To compare that with a fight against something extremely trivial (and is, anyway, built around completely different attitudes) is more or less like saying the Japanese death marches of World War II were just like taking a brisk walk.
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Valentine - if we paid you/made it your newest job, would you do it then? *whistles*
How much, and will there be alcohol supplied?
HI! My name is Astinus, though people tend to call me "Asty", for some reason.
"I want to have Gregory House in my Pokemon universe but I'll call him Professor Oak. That's just fine and dandy"
This actually kinda makes me want Gregory House in my Pokémon universe. Can anyone just imagine what a Pokémon center would be like with him around?
Trainer: "Um... my Pikachu got hurt."
House: "It's lupus."
Also, hi. I'm Valentine, and according to some people on PC, I'm older than Jesus. Employed. Single but looking for other dictator-conquerors. If you happen to be Genghis Khan, however, you need not apply.
