I always cringe when a mature, educated,
adult allows the phrase 'it is what it is' to fall out of their
brain. Those five succinct words, in that order, jangle-pucker my
opinion-of-you muscle like a sharp kick in the
gooch. Some part of me refuses to stop thinking about, mentally investigates,
attempts to further identify, and wants to maybe-hopefully come up with a better answer—to everything. So, when someone
idiomatically
declares 'it is whut it is'? I smell a
putrefactive-proclamation! They sound like they're saying:
all is futile; any further thought or discussion
by anyone (which includes me) is a fuckin waste of time; case closed.
Which causes me to want to dig it up and
determine why they want it buried. This
fantastic article
details the 2007 ubiquitous use of the phrase as witnessed by a US Army
commander in Iraq.
When I hear i.i.w.i.i.
my grey-matter gavels loudly on my sensibility's sounding block and I have
difficulty repressing the urge to say: "I hate that phrase" or "I disagree" or
(if I'm feeling kind) "I'm always confused by that statement." The new
after Jan 6th me
will no longer
repress that urge
and I will tell you to your face that I hate that fatalistic sentence.
The equivalent idiom
du jour:
'that is not who we are' has been ubiquitously uttered by President
Biden, dozens of
talking heads
(from every political party and media outlet), as well as personal friends and
neighbors.
Stop saying: "that's not who we are"! When you say it, you sound like you're either a coward with your head buried
in the sand, an idiot who denies reality, or both.
Use of the "editorial we" or "royal we" is
a
nosism
[say: Nose-is-um]. During the
culmination of the Trump presidency's 'final boss battle' on Jan 6th
(the echoes of insurrectionist's chants may still be pinging and punching around
inside our befuddled brainpans today) the racism, bigotry, prejudice, and
in-your-face hatred of millions of white-Republican men and women was proudly
on display.
That Is
Who We All Are - As A Nation. Depending on your daily statements
and actions, you may be able to say, "that behavior is not representative
of who I, as an individual, am." (From now on, I will require you to prove
it. I intend to ask everyone their opinions. Fair warning! Be prepared to defend your statements.) Because, clearly, WE as a country are a collection of
hypocritical, terrible, racist, fucktards.
It is who we were before the civil
war a century and a half ago.
It is who we were during the civil
rights movement 60 years ago.
It is who we were when the Black
Lives Matter movement began in 2013 when the murderers of Trayvon Martin and
Michael Brown and Eric Garner (ad infinitum up to today) were acquitted or not
indited.
It is who we were last month when thousands of hypocrites waved hundreds of flags, like:
blue-lives-matter
(as they struck and killed Capitol Police officers); Q-Anon (as they chanted
'kill Mike Pence'); as well as the confederate battle flag and flags of the
NAZI party (as they chanted U.S.A, USA).
Our hatred is not
buried. It's constantly out in the open for all to see. Watch this
video and learn why when you say 'it is not who we are' that you're
obviously lying to yourself:
Are you now thinking: 'that is not my community'? You're fooling yourself. The vocal few are always surrounded by the silent majority in that city and in every city. For every person who rolled down their window to shout, hundreds more drove by keeping their mouth shut while they were thinking the same thoughts (which Ms Gorman's poem artfully refers to as: 'quiet isn't always peace').
The vocal few took planes, buses, trains, and pickup-trucks (chock-a-block full of a cacophony of flags) to DC on Jan 6th—the silent millions voted for Trump twice, they still think the same racist thoughts, today and they'll vote for him a third time in four years.
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